Same here. I always thought that I was smarter/more interesting/more adult than everyone else. So when a middle aged man tells you that he's never met anyone like you and how you are deeper than other women...I believed them. I never really understood that they were just trying to have sex with me. I didn't see myself…

No, you're right. It is topic in the documentary Running from Crazy. She saw her father enter the rooms of her two oldest sisters and she believes he molested them. One of the sister, Margaux, committed suicide in 1996.

There are women who want to be provided for 100%. It isn't the choice that I'd make but if that is what she wants then I don't think that you should talk her out of it because there is something disrespectful about telling someone they don't really know what type of life they want.

For some reason you paying the whole check represents something important to her. I have no idea what it is. Maybe it is something that she was told growing up (the whole "the man is the provider idea") or maybe she views money as a representation of love (something that a lot of people, men and women, have. I had a…

PS: No amount is too much. I generally have a $5 minimum tip no matter what my actual bill is at a sit down restaurant because even if I'm just getting some hash browns and coffee you still put in the same amount of work as if I had ordered the a Grand Slam. (Obviously most of my "sit down restaurants" are Denny's…

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…