I think the comparisons to homophobia and racism are really specific to location/culture (in the most specific way).

"she became thoroughly objectified, right before my eyes"

Having to work all the time to pay bills and make ends meet isn't the same thing as being a workaholic. Workaholic implies that one overdoes it, that one is working in excess. Being poor and thus having to work all the time so you can get enough to eat isn't working to excess, even if it means working even more than…

@kikilikesthecinema: I didn't get the impression that Dutch women are lazy. Dutch women (/women who aren't workaholics) aren't lazier than American women who love to work, or need to work all the time in order to feel alive. It's just different (...better, in my opinion) priorities.

Ack I wish the kids I used to nanny had something like this.

Ok, I don't have a problem with Amazon pulling this book—I just want to make that clear.

@yinyang: You should read Ariel Levy's book. It really was one of the first times I was ever like, Ohhhh that's what I've been thinking but not saying for the past 10 years.

Ahh I like this greyhound/bulldog business.

I don't know why I should trust random cops more than I should trust random people I see on the street. Once you get to know cops/correctional officers/etc, you begin to realize that they're not weeding the crazy, sociopathic, anger-management-issues, misogynist, power-hungry motherfuckers out of the pack when they…

@StarHen: Yes. Avoid the police if you don't want to get raped—if you talk to a dude you totally asked for it.

@junkyardarts: I don't see anything crazy about your comment.

@mjforty: Well that dude was in her house at night. I mean, he climbed in through her window. She obviously wanted it.

@intangiblemango: I think you mean when you become a celebrity.

I found out right before I moved away from my beloved city, that my favorite restaurant On The Earth caters weddings. So I was like, We have to get fake married! We can tell my parents we're engaged and then they'll pay for a wedding, and we can have my friend who's gonna be a minister "marry" us, so that we can have…

@tlachtga: When my student came forward, she told the principal that she did it because I didn't ever stop harping on coming forward to officially make a complaint, and how we'd support anyone who did that. So you can actually make a difference, as long as you don't get burned out first (I was done after 2 years).

@Flackette Knits A Lot: To be fair to my experience: once the girls came forward, the administrators did not dismiss it. In fact, that was one of the problems—they wanted to do something. They wanted to expel these little shitheads. Even if we weren't aware of this particular case, or were missing most of the…

@Ding-Dang: The thing about partying with people like him, is that as soon as I get any alcohol in me the amount of militancy I'm willing to expose goes through the roof. If a dude hits on me when I've had a drink, I'm like, "No thanks, dude." And if he doesn't stop right away and I'm a bit drunk I'm like this:

This makes me want to start teaching high school again.

Can't we pretend that she's a descendant of Thomas Middleton, and therefore, like, a Roaring Girl or something? It's way awesomer than trying to suss out the impossible-to-learn class/money systems of posh-ness that the British implicitly understand.

@snappers-n-bananas: I seriously have been looking at that coat and thinking, That's exactly the kind of coat I need!