The consulting firm I work at used to have a mentoring program for women (i.e., senior female employees mentoring junior female employees), which died a quiet death. I had to explain to my own (male) boss why none of "us women" thought it was fair that we were required to allocate hours to mentoring/being mentored. At…

My really unpopular opinion is that people who are especially impressed and/or attracted to a particular accent are almost always extremely dull.

This x 1,000! Why do they even ask, if they are just going to get super defensive about their own dietary choices no matter what your reason is? Honestly, I've been a vegetarian for 10+ years at this point, and for every preachy vegan I've encountered, I've probably encountered at least five meat loving omnivors who…

Sort of.

Not sure about SA law, but in quite a few western countries having sex under false pretences - e.g., telling someone you are wearing a condom and then not - is sexual assault.

You are my new fav Jezebel parody account, Diana. Rock on, weirdo.

Coconut butter and coconut oil are both super comedogenic.

This is probably a dumb question, but are you using lube and working up to intercourse and still having pain? Or just doing light foreplay and then going for intercourse? Because, I definitely have some psychological vaginismus, but lube (even when I think I don't need it) & extensive foreplay help out with 95% of the…

The idea is that the motion your foot does when you're driving wears down the sole of one shoe more than the other. Some people who buy expensive shoes ($300+) don't want to wear down one shoe faster than the other, so they'll keep a pair of loafers in their car to change into. It's honestly not the most ridiculous…

It's non-cash losses. They lost $607 million because they had $684 million in impairment losses. They booked only $673 thousand in impairment losses in November 2013 and their net income was $35 million. So it seems the increase in impairment losses is what caused the negative third-quarter results this year. Per…

The golden age of "de-preppified" J.Crew was 2008-2010. The styles were "classic" but with a twist and the fabrics and cuts were still good. Also, the prices were under $250 for pretty much everything in the store- with most of the styles coming in the $50-100 range. Now the quality is noticeably worse & the prices…

Not going to lie, I volunteer at a shelter where we get people coming in all the time who already have one aging dog and are contemplating getting a second, and a lot of them have mild to moderate guilt about bringing in a younger dog. It sounds terrible, but you really do need to overlap your dog acquisitions. Get…

Those farm owner's don't give a fuck about the migrant workers. In fact, they pretty much depend on their seasonal workers being extremely marginalised, otherwise they'd have to improve work conditions & pay them a reasonable amount.

Not that the potential fall out from their national organization excuses the sorority from hushing up a rape at all.

Generally, sorority houses have rules about where men are and aren't allowed to be in the house. Usually they're restricted to common areas and can't go into the sleeping quarters. A lot of sororities ignore those rules in practice, but if the school administration or national organization finds out they can…

Some customer service rep allegedly telling one plaintiff that the company blocked accounts with qq.com emails is not exactly an admission of racial profiling. In fact, I find it super unlikely that customer service rep would have any insight into the reasoning behind the blocked accounts.

He doesn't look particularly happy to me.

He ends up alone in the end. Isn't the last illustration of him sitting alone on the tree stump? As a kid, I definitely interpreted The Giving Tree as saying if you take too much from other people you end up alone at some point because the other person has nothing left to give.

On that point we agree. I was just pointing out that this wasn't some grand stand against Spotify's fucked up royalty rate that might trickle down to help out smaller artists.

First of all, let's be real here: she pulled her music from Spotify to increase the album sales figure for her new release. The vast majority of her income is not coming from record sales, it's coming from merchandising, tour revenues & endorsements. Second of all, the radio industry is slowly going bankrupt, so…