Yep.

I agree in general, but I think that the onus needs to be on the ally to be the bigger person. To listen when people pushback with criticism, to take what it helpful, and to ignore the rest. Backlash does harm the discourse, but the backlash isn't happening in a vacuum. Often times the reason for the snark and…

I am in a weird job where most of my "work" is creative problem solving. Which does not happen on a clock. So sometimes I will just leave and go see a movie in the afternoon. Why? Because I'm not coming up with a solution staring at my computer screen and for some reason when I distract myself I usually end up coming…

A theme can be a trigger even without explicit details. I have an anxiety disorder and had a rough childhood with a drug addict father, but I had never had a trauma flashback until 2 years ago during Saving Mr. Banks.

This is Fred. I found him in a garbage can outside of my law school at 2AM. When my roommate and I walked past him he literally jumped out of the garbage and followed us to the car and jumped in.

I think it would be fair to say that they are unlikely to do homebirths because of the doctor issue. I don't know if I would say that the "can't" do homebirths. There is no particular statute or license requirement that forbids it. Just like there isn't one for doctors. But you're right that it would be unlikely for a…

Nurse midwives are allowed to deliver at homes as far as I can tell. I say that because there are only 20 nurse midwives in the state and all are working in hospitals.

I think the confusion comes because some of the best known cases involve class actions (Roe v. Wade, Brown v. Board of Education) but it isn't because class actions are better. It's generally either for a strategic reasons or because of the possibility that the court will offer some form of relief instead of…

The King case isn't trying to undo legislation. If the lawsuit succeeds the law is still around. What the suit is doing is challenging the interpretation of the law to show that it doesn't apply to them. The claim is that the word exchanges in the law only applies to the state health care exchanges and that if you…

Well clearly you need to just quit your terrible union grocery job and take up the luxurious life of a barista.

The managers SHOULD, but they don't.

Another child of alcoholism here. My Mom would make me go to the bar with Dad because (and follow this logic) if he had me then he would be more likely to come home at the end of the night.

Are you trying to imply that the cause of racial equality is lost because people don't want to watch a movie about the historical struggle for equality?

I think the only way to do it is by making people aware of their implicit associations and subconscious racism. But that is hard. It involves walking someone through their thought process. It isn't "I hate black people" its "I assumed this guy was homeless because I didn't think that a black guy would have any…

It tends not to just be this one topic. People who are anti-vaccine are more likely to believe in other health conspiracies (i.e. there is a cure for cancer available but business interests are stopping it, GMOs cause disease). As for why, there are a lot of cognitive things that go on to keep people in these world…

You can't actually change an anti-vaxxers mind. In fact, trying to be nice and reasonable and giving them facts and statistics makes them more likely to believe they are right.It's called the backfire effect. (The book The Unpersuadables discusses why the backfire effect happens and the cogitive reasons for it.)

Both of my grandmothers were institutionalized on multiple occasions during the glorious past when mental illness didn't exist. Neither of them could work or raise their children because of their mental illness and substance abuse issues (since they both used drinking to self-medicate).

The book works because the character is so bland that the reader can project themselves into the scene. It might as well be written in the 2nd person. This is one of the same reasons that Twilight was so popular. Because Bella was sort of a non-character also. The similarity is not surprising considering that 50…

Did you hear that there has been talk about a Columbo remake with Mark Ruffalo? I was 100% against any remake (because Columbo was perfect and nobody could be as good), but Ruffalo is the only person who could come close to Falk.

That advice weirdly came from my Mom. She had a therapist who told her to make a list of all the things that she wanted from a partner. When she came back the next week the therapist looked it over and said that this was her list of things to work on in herself. I've also heard it expressed as "Be the person you want…