I think that they're typically rare because usually law enforcement will try to contact a family member or friend for assistance. It's usually only in cases where either no one can be reached or, in my experience, where the family asks for intervention (they're already at the end of their rope and haven't been able…

I haven't been in exactly those shoes but mine fit pretty similarly. You do the best you can and you make peace with that. It might work and it might not but at the end of it all, the only way you'll be able to live with yourself is if you know that you did everything you could.

One of my coworkers was flipping his shit about how expensive babies are. Dude, have you ever had to pay bail?!?

Are you reading the same comments that I am? Because it seems like the vast majority of them agree that this wasn't ok. Just like it wasn't ok when a man wrote the story.

Saying she's beautiful tells me nothing substantive about this woman, at all. All it does is signal to me that I should place her higher in the social hierarchy than I might have otherwise. And that is harmful. It's harmful to this woman and it's harmful to any other woman who might feel diminished by the reminder…

Do you think it would be ok to lead off the article by saying that she's also great in bed? Of course not. I'm not saying it's not a compliment. I'm saying that some kinds of compliments are appropriate in some contexts for some audiences - and not others.

But why include it in an article about her work? A description of a woman's physical appearance - and someone else's assessment of where that woman ranks on some ostensibly objective scale that by its very nature compares her to other women - is different from your examples because it is the one "compliment" that is…

Can you help me understand how your assessment of her physical appearance is relevant to her work? She might be "beautiful," but I'm not seeing why that matters here.

Good for you. My mom was 19 when I was born and put herself through college and graduate school with me marching along behind her. She got her M.S. before I finished high school. She got married (for the first/only time) after I left for college. One of the things that I am most thankful for is that my mom didn't…

I use Chanel's SPF 50 every day. It's expensive but it doesn't smell bad, doesn't look chalky, doesn't get greasy, and works well.

I agree 99% of the time. But one guy told me not to ever call it a "mustard scab" again and I thought that was fair.

When I told him an bit of a sad story about my family (on our second date, because he asked), he told me that it didn't really make sense to him and his "bullshit detector" was going off. In the car on the way home, he told me that I shouldn't tell that story to people because it's just fishing for sympathy and…

I recently had a falling-out with a friend who used to invite himself over to my house two or three times a week (he lived in my city, but not the same neighborhood), help himself to my guest room, food and the one shower, and never offer to help or clean or bring anything. It got to the point where I would sort of…

"Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, who hears cases involving the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, issued an order late Friday allowing same-sex marriages to resume in light of Wednesday’s Supreme Court ruling..."

California state officials lost at the federal trial court when Judge Walker initially found Prop8 unconstitutional The state was the initial named defendant - the one who actually got sued. They declined to appeal. Other defendant-intervenors (parties who ask the court to give them permission to be named as…

It surprises me how much I'm rooting for these kids. Lid for every pot, and all. It's like they were each carefully grown under meticulous conditions to be "showroom perfect" for each other.

A "hipster" becomes such by virtue of their personal grooming, wardrobe, social, and entertainment choices. It requires affirmative acts and the deliberate assertion of the acts associated with a specific identity. A Black person just is. Perhaps once you understand the difference between being Black and being a…

My three year-old niece uses, "Go pet a dog!" But really she may as well be saying "fuck off." She's got the tone down and everything.

This might be the first time that I've publicly declared an item of clothing both gender and age-inappropriate. I'm a real "you do you" kind of gal. But someone has to draw the line. Not only is this not a tanktop traditionally worn by straight men; it's not even a style traditionally worn by grown women. This is…

I don't agree with your summary of the findings from the Harvard study but I do apologize because I didn't realize that the second was behind a paywall since I have academic access. But I think you've made your point (that nothing in the research would matter to you anyway) pretty clear and I don't think it's worth…