THIS!!!!

I had a table once whisper loudly to their children, "if you don't go to college, you'll end up waiting tables like her..." while I was prebussing their table.

Along the same lines as Becca's story about people making assumptions about educational backgrounds, I waited tables at an Italian chain restaurant that falls between Olive Garden and Macaroni Grill in terms of cost/quality the summer between college and law school. Our clientele was generally pretty decent, and as a…

The reason some cake shops have been taken to court or been shamed in the news is because the same-sex couples requesting wedding cakes were requesting nothing special —- they just wanted a wedding cake, such as the shops make all the damn time. If you refuse to do the exact same service for a customer — services that…

This is fantastic! I love this guy:

Meanwhile, some Christian bakers are going to gay neighborhoods and giving out free cupcakes to show support. http://t.co/v5m4IcvlBN

Use a baby spoon to eat ice cream or other soft desserts. Smaller bites=more time to savor food=greater feeling of satisfaction.

This is why the term “microaggression” is a very real thing, even if people roll their eyes at it.... It’s all the cumulative little things, the background radiation, that adds up to the message of You Are Not Wanted or You Are Insufficient.

I totally see your point, and I think having a non-confrontational attitude when discussing issues like this does help, but I don’t really think “not meaning it that way” should be an acceptable excuse. It’s the prejudices we don’t realize we have which are the most dangerous, and as such, I think it’s the nature of…

My husband built his schedule around coming home to be with us, and optimizing his work hours so he didn’t miss out on our daughter’s infancy and early childhood. His old boss was for it and had a similar work schedule so he could spend time with his daughter. It was great. And then they had a departmental shakedown,…

I took a computer science course where the professor KEPT pointing out the 3 of us in the 80 person lecture hall that were women. He would weave it into his lectures like saying how “So the function creates another function, like a woman giving birth to a kid. Well, none of you will ever do this. But, well, I guess...…

I didn’t speak to him for 5 days (difficult, because I was still his assistant during that time). I talked to friends. I talked to colleagues. I talked to my therapist.

LOL

My husband’s boss gives him shit about staying home with our son when he’s sick and can’t go to school, even though he (the boss) is fully aware that I also work full time outside the home. My husband always calmly explains that we switch off, because it would be unfair for only one parent to have to miss work every…

My former boss was ranting about how a female co-worker had to leave early to pick up her sick child from school. “It’s irresponsible. I have a kid and you don’t see me ever having to go pick her up because she’s sick.”

Reading other people's stories reminded me of another one. So, I have a house that I have owned longer than I've known my husband. His name has never been listed on this house in any way, shape, or form. I've always had the house insured through State Farm.

“How are you, Countess v Fingerbang?”
“Man, I got a raging yeast infection and my cat vomited in my mouth last night. How are YOU, random male colleague?”

You are right.

The city reporter (a woman) and the business reporter (a man whose parents loved him) rolled their eyes.

I work in education, specifically special education, so this isn’t usually an issue at my school site, though I have seen instances where, say, a male psychologist on the team insists that he is the only person who makes eligibility decisions, when in fact those are team decisions.