The best example I've seen of this is on the TV show Parenthood. In season 3, a high school girl gets an abortion and it is not the end of the world for her. Nobody is happy about it, but nobody feels the need to become an anti-abortion crusader afterwards.

I worked in a store that sold herbals and vitamins for a while. We did carry something that would induce labor (bromelain—the stuff from pineapples), but we were not allowed to come out and tell customers that when they asked for the something to induce labor. We were, however, allowed to hand the customer a book,…

Definitely. When I first started using this site, I genuinely did not know all the terms used here (I'm an adult woman with a master's degree who has read some bell hooks, but that doesn't mean I knew what MRA stood for). If I don't know what something is, well, ya know, I open a new tab. It's not super hard.

*HIGH FIVE* across the internet for Rosings Park reference. Her Ladyship does enjoy a good blaze.

Ugh. I was guessing it was like some kind of take on being "randy." It didn't even cross my mind that it was short for "random." Blergh.

This ad is dumb (monkey in a box?), but I saw it the other day and was happy to see it. Mixed American white/Indian family (with kids!) doing father's day:

I was on a train a few years ago and I was talking to the people sitting across the aisle from me (middle-aged black woman and older white Catholic priest). For some reason, they both went off on how they "felt sorry for" the children of mixed-race families. It was so awkward. I didn't say a thing.

Crap. I knew we were doing something wrong when we paid asking price for this house. Seriously, though, we do joke with the next door neighbors when we do stuff like refinish the deck that we have to do our bit to keep the property value up.

I haven't looked at it in a while. At one point (maybe six years ago?) things were getting confusing for my husband (non-US citizen who had multiple greencard applications in), so we were actually going through the checklist and adding up our points. I was almost at the point of signing up for French classes to up my…

Very true. I was teaching at a certain university that I shall not name and I had several students who were conversant in English, but certainly not able to fully express themselves. The problem was that the school had not changed their TOEFL requirements when the scoring changed. In the end, they did a disservice to…

Are you Canadian? I kind of like the simplicity of Canadian immigration points system. Speak English? Points! Speak French? Points! Speak both? Even more points! Desirable degree? Points! Job offer? Points! It seems more straightforward. Here, it feels more arbitrary.

In my experience, these people even make it hard for you if you have a doctorate and six-figure salary.

Getting a visa is already incredibly difficult and expensive—especially if you have no connections in the US. I'm saying this as someone who has sponsored a spouse and other relatives. They are making this harder, why? The green card line is already backed up for several years.

Yes. This. ESPECIALLY since there are still parts of India where women, having no access to toilet facilities, are forced to wake up extra early (well before dawn) to urinate and defecate under cover of darkness because it is taboo for them to go out and take care of business during the day.

Ugh. I'm with you. I have tried several times to no avail. It's high up there on my list of "why is this so damn hard?" things that is supposed to be easy that I just can't manage.

I think it's because it is presented as so essential, often central, to being a member of the religious community.

Very glad this happened. When Pres. Obama gave the commencement speech at Notre Dame, people who lived near the university had to deal with having giant trucks with these photos on parked IN FRONT OF THEIR HOUSES on a residential street.

I think it's just that by pinning the clothes, we get the impression that the dress or shirt is well fitted. It's only after you take it to the dressing room and try it on that you discover you have been deceived: what you thought would nicely emphasize your shape turns out to be a bag with all the fine tailoring of a…

We tried one counselor for a few months and she was a poor fit ( she let one person dominate the sessions and did not intervene, she seemed to be overly swayed by the more dominant/eloquent person, and other things I need not go into). About a year later, with the situation no better, we tried another counselor. He…

Same here. I was an 80s baby whose favorite color was bright blue. My parents let me pick out my own clothes, so I had a winter coat that was blue with a truck on it. Apparently, I was constantly mistaken for a boy and people gave my mom lots of crap about it. I never had a pink lego in my life.