I meant "it looks better on their resumes" as "it will help them find work." Obviously resumes are not just pieces of performance art; the entire goal of a resume is to get work.

There would be nothing wrong with just encouraging them to get into the field, if they aren't given admission priority. And I think some vet schools do operate like that (at least one has admitted all-female graduating classes). Really, the problem is just that there are so many more qualified applicants than…

Yes, Kara seems to have missed the point of a few items on the list.

Agreed. That one seemed a lot more reasonable than most of these lists.

Because men are not an oppressed minority who deserve additional opportunities to make up for generations of systemic discrimination.

It's bad for the women who want to be veterinarians. It's not just a matter of choosing a less prestigious school if you don't get your top pick. There are only 28 accredited vet schools in the country; it's incredibly hard to get into any of them.

It's especially bad for women trying to get into veterinary school. Most vet schools are about 75% female. They all really want to attract more men.

Especially if you have a basement you can push the teenagers into when they start agitating for their own room.

Just because Americans have had ridiculous standards for home size for a long time does not mean that they actually need that much space.

I actually also got a tutoring job that paid $10/hr when I started college, but I didn't have any prior tutoring experience. As it turned out, I didn't like it, and I moved on to a job at the university's library that paid slightly less. I later ended up deciding to become a librarian.

Exactly. There was a near identical story a few weeks ago. Are we seriously going to get another article every time someone breaks this completely dumb record by adding another shot?

Yes, certainly the very privileged who get those ridiculously prestigious internships have an advantage. I was thinking more about a middle class kid who is choosing between working retail/food service verses volunteering at a local hospital or art gallery. And obviously everyone's individual experience will vary.

Wow. I wasn't even thinking of that level of advancement. I was just thinking of how high the turnover is at most fast food restaurants, so someone who has hung around for a couple years without seriously fucking up becomes a trusted veteran.

I know that's the situation for some people, and I didn't mean to invalidate your experience. Right now most of the teens I know about are middle or upper-middle class southern Californians, which definitely has a distinctive culture and set of circumstances.

They'll start as a cashier, obviously. If you start when you're 15, it is very possible to be an Assistant Manager of a fast food place by the time you're 20.

But even getting those jobs in college can be difficult. I work at a university and sometimes hire students for work-study positions. The students who apply are all desperate to get some kind of work, and many of them are going semester after semester without working.

It seems to me like teens are more focused on volunteering and unpaid internships, because they think that will be more important for their resumes than a stint at McDonalds. They may be mistaken though. Colleges may care about your volunteering hours, but a lot of employers really only look at work experience. …

I actually showed him the children's book The Mitten as part of my case.

No, he really didn't understand the difference. We discussed it at length. He thought the distinction was that gloves are made of tough material like leather or gor-tex, while mittens are woven from soft material. He had apparently never seen a real mitten; I showed him a picture of one, and he acted like it was a…

I once had a boyfriend who would refer to men in their early 50s as 'elderly,' no joke. I tried to tell him that was not standard usage and that he was very likely to cause hurt feelings that way, but to no avail.