I'm not so sure. Racism is very hard to 'prove' unless someone witnesses/captures documentary evidence of the salesperson saying that the reason she is not showing the high(est)-end bag to Oprah is because she is black. Until then it might technically be speculation, but this crap happens often enough for everyone to…

These blankets are unobjectionable to whom? Because my baby boy would never stand being covered, not from day 1. And there's an awful lot of women who say the same. Not to mention, for women who choose to breastfeed for the recommended 12+ months, you are really suggesting that it's possible to completely hide…

Yeah I guess this hypotherical restaurant owner should have the freedom whether to abide by health and safety laws too, because people have the freedom to prepare food in a less-than-hygienic fashion in their own homes. After all, if people don't want salmonella they should go somewhere with a 5-star safety rating.…

This argument simply doesn't fly when your addiction is doing other people physical damage, sorry. Where's their freedom not to be smoked on?

I think it's about context. Currently, I'm not in my hometown, and I have no Indigenous Australians in my social circle. Not only that, I now live in an area of Queensland, Australia with one of the highest proportion of African immigrants, and I am married to a (locally born, overseas-raised) man of West African…

That's not true. My hometown has one of the largest proportion of Indigenous Australians in its population of anywhere outside of the Northern Territory. Indigenous people in Australia do usually refer to themselves as black, or, as another commenter mentioned, they may say 'blackfella' or 'Aboriginal'. 'Aborigine'…

YES. My beautiful baby boy was about 8 months old when I thought "Wow, I can understand why people decide to do this again. Maybe I'd even like to do this again soon!". Three months later he started walking. Now he's 3 years old and we've only just decided that making another one is a sensible thing to do!

I used to, before we effectively moved in together after a month of dating. But it *is* uncomfortable! Also impractical, if you are forever scurrying off to the bathroom (especially if you consume a legume-heavy diet!). And he laughs at how much I fart in my sleep anyway (you "I don't fart in front of my significant…

We used to get the same thing with our little boy. Add a pink singlet to olive-green cargo shorts on a very boyish (but, granted, extremely beautiful!) toddler with dreadlocks and people would reflexively say 'girl', then pull themselves up and start stuttering because he didn't really look like one.

Aaaand then I…

Before my son came along, I was always convinced that kids like that were always put up to it by their parents. But my husband and I have no interest in metal music, and yet our 2yo developed a taste for it after discovering it accompanying some car videos on his iPad. You haven't seen disturbing until you've seen a…

What's interesting about this is that the non-pictorial content of FHM etc is so bad that I honestly believe it could be harmful to its intended audience of teenage boys. As an 18-year-old, I bought my first copy of Playboy. The fact it was the 2002 Christmas issue with Dita von Teese on the cover probably helped…