Actually, I have a friend who's an ASL interpreter, and she interprets Taylor Swift concerts. Lots of deaf people still enjoy music (they may have limited hearing, or they can feel the vibrations from the base/beat, or they just appreciate the lyrics). And Taylor Swift has deaf fans. So, it's pretty ablist to make a…

You're the one who said that you should be canonized for working in a 100 degree kitchen. Not me.

Did you have air conditioning? Because most kitchens I've worked in get up to 100 when the AC is on. Without AC, the ambient temp. is 140-150. So, boo freaking hoo right back atcha. You were working in standard kitchen conditions. Poor baby. These people were likely working in temperatures that were 40% higher…

Dude. I'm in Texas right now. I've lived here most of my life. RESTAURANT KITCHENS ARE HOTTER THAN THE OUTDOORS. All the time. They are ALWAYS hotter than the outdoors. Always. Usually if it's 70 in the dining area of a restaurant, it's 100 in the kitchen. That's why restaurants are always so cold—it's to keep…

Yup. I'm in Texas, and I've been to a couple of barbeque restaurants that didn't have AC in them, but they had those huge vent fans in the roof, and oscillating fans and open windows. So, it's possible to have a kitchen that's still functional—but only if it's been designed to function without AC. A Manhattan…

Does he make $7.00 an hour?

I'm gonna repeat what I just said in a different thread: restaurant kitchens get into the the 100s even with air conditioning, because they have those massive grills, heat lamps, and grease traps that are heated up all day long to well over 300 degrees. So having no air conditioning (or at least proper ventilation) in…

Yeah, restaurant kitchens get into the the 100s even with air conditioning, because they have those massive grills, heat lamps, and grease traps that are heated up all day long to well over 300 degrees. So having no air conditioning (or at least proper ventilation) in a kitchen that serves hot food is not a safe…

Ugh. I'm sorry. I've suffered from anxiety and depression since I was a child, and not until I was 30 years old did I finally seek help. All that time, I knew I should seek help—but I was afraid of admitting something was wrong with me. And after I finally started seeing a therapist and started on some…

The outrage is that the authors of the study framed the data in a way that implies that women experience mental illness more often than men. Which is not true. Or at least there's no data to support that. What the data supports is that women report mental illness more often. Which is old news.

Also, the "classical" descriptions of mental illnesses are often based on the symptoms experienced more often by women. Depression and anxiety in men will often result in rage, rather than the numbness, exhaustion, etc., that is more common in women. So, men are underreporting their depression and anxiety not just…

If you are at home, watching the race on TV, and I'm booking it to the finish line—I didn't beat you because you didn't compete.

This sort of touches on it: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_16… But it sort of talks around the numbers that I'm referring to. Sorry I can't find a better source.

Haha. I appreciate the disclaimer. But, sadly, I don't remember where I read that. It was a couple of years ago. And it's not impossible that I misremembered it, but I really think that's what I read because I remember being surprised by it.

Hmm. I think we may be considering different metrics. I was looking at the rate at which young men or women are admitted into colleges and universities, but it sounds like you're looking at pure numbers of bodies enrolled. So, for instance, if 100 women and 75 men apply to a university and 75% of women are admitted…

I read that there are still greater college acceptance rates for men/boys than for women/girls—but the men have a lower graduation rate. So, basically, men are dropping out of college at higher rates. This is likely because a man with a high school education makes approximately the same annual income as a woman with…

1) Truth. Editors call that a "weasel word." They're using it to shut down any questions about their lack of proof.

Could she maybe be dismissing his claim because study after study have shown that in the classroom, teachers are biased towards boys—they call on them more often, take their questions and answers more seriously, praise their work more readily, and punish them for acting out less often? Could it be because boys…

If so, they aren't working. A woman was sentenced for 20 years after firing a warning shot into the air to dissuade her abusive spouse from attacking her.

My guess would be that since he planned and wrote (and began shooting) the movie before he got the book deal, he didn't want to just fill in the blanks (I guess he thinks the movie will do that well enough), he wanted to give us more of Veronica's story.