"Is having race-based preferences in sexual attraction considered racist now?" FTFY.

Short story: we all have fucked up expectations

Et tu, Balderich?

in a perfect world we'd all be required to SUPPORT ourselves on part-time minimum wage work for six months before being allowed to work anywhere else. no using mom and dad's credit card. no calling in favours from family friends and connections. this is how millions upon millions of people in our first-world countries…

ALL YOU NEED IS BREAST MILK, COCONUT OIL, AND COLLIDIAL SILVER READ THE INSERT IT'S ALL CONTROLLED BY THE BIG PHARINATII

The problem is that it's not your ignorant friend or her baby who will die. The beautiful 10 month old could be a carrier and infect babies (who can't be vaccinated till they are 6 months old) or some immune-compromised person. It's others who get burned when these idiots play with fire.

I wouldn't wish whooping cough on any child. I nominate Kristin Cavallari.

My friend teaches science in an elementary school in San Diego. She was just informed that there's a whooping cough outbreak at the school, which has only been in session for two weeks. I really believe it's going to take deaths and disability until parents take vaccinations seriously. The risks of vaccines seem so…

Good picks overall. I do like a female character who learns as they do but I dislike the approach popularized by Joss Whedon, where the only way to make a female character "strong" is to massively screw them up. Buffy has her unhappiness over the Chosen One, Willow went dark magic addict, River is nuts, Echo was often…

Anything that admits strong odors gets a big NO from me — and that includes nail polish and Quiznos sandwiches.

Exactly. What the fuck do I care what complete strangers, who will never see me again, think of what I'm wearing?

If I have to sit on a seat built for a capuchin monkey, terrified to recline it lest I get stabbed, you bet I'm wearing sweats. I'd wear a toga if I had one.

I wear a tuxedo when I fly, but only on flights after 6pm.

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See, but that's insulting the cockroach...at least they have the decency to stay out of sight most of the time.

Woah, woah, woah. Check yourself Erin.

See, Isha?! I knew I was right to tell you to run away when you saw Not-Steve-Doocy at the Mets game that one time.

So you do not believe men ever come across as entitled, yet you write a comment that is seventeen paragraphs long about how women are wrong to share their experiences in a forum aimed at women, because you personally have not encountered the same experiences?

Given that you're disregarding anything unless you've personally experienced it, as one man to another (because clearly you'd never take the word of a woman) I'd say no, you are most certainly not "an ally."