Wow. Just wow.

Speaking as a female lawyer of reproductive age: fuck this judge. My coworker is set to give birth any day now, and she has had absolutely no problem getting things continued. I have worked with many attorneys who were pregnant or new parents, and no judge has ever side-eyed them for wanting a continuance based on…

This mess isn't British pub culture either. *shrug*

It's my 16th Birthday today. This is not helpful. This is strange. All teenage girls are not the same. I am my own self, and I will not conform.

Yeah...I also feel like generally teenage girls don't need to be told to count calories, or go into bars with drunk adult men.

the kissing thing was bullshit, too.

Thirteen year olds, go out and hang out with drunk boys? Don't eat potatoes and bread or else you'll get fat (god forbid!)? What is this crock of shit? Feminist author, okaayy suuuure.

That made me cry more than the movie trailer.

I really like Emmy Rossum :)

I'd LOVE more articles written on the insane pressures put on women in academia. It's awful. *Hint, hint Jezebel authors!!!**

While my wife was pregnant with our son she faced some female academics who thought she'd never be able to finish her PhD. She'll be graduating in the next year.

YEP. I'm finishing a PhD and our advisers tell us ladies straight out that if we ever expect tenure, we can't have a kid. As someone nearing 30, I am so painfully aware that my child-bearing years, before genetic anomalies start appearing around 35, are disappearing and that when I finally do get a job, I'll have to…

I am that uncoordinated. Which is why I just leave em on most of the time. ;)

Not everyone has good/healthy/safe relationships with their parents. I might beg my parents to stay with me if they were homeless but I have other friends that wouldn't lift a finger and I'd support it given what I know. I don't know enough about her or her family to judge why she's not being taken in. I feel bad for…

I notice that neither her son nor her friend seem to be clamoring for her to move in with them while she sorts things out.

I didn't know how much I cared until I got choked up.

That's your perception, partly because those stories aren't being told. I've worked with NGOs in Pakistan, the Middle East, and W. Africa, and I saw NGO workers, human rights activists, journalists, religious leaders, and women fighting terrorism and Islamic extremists in their own way. Recommend starting with "Your…

Why does this matter? This isn't some garage rally sponsored by a local KKK chapter. This isn't a community meeting in Bumblefuck attended by the frustrated, powerless, and racist. This was a panel sponsored by the Heritage Foundation, a leading conservative think tank headed by former Senator Jim DeMint, one of the…

Why does being of the same religion as another person mean that they are affiliated? Are all Christians affiliated? Are all white people affiliated? That is a very loose definition of affiliation if you are going to use it in that manner.