When his selfishness kills a thousand of his employees, we can talk about this in the same breath.

Sorry, 'Unexplained' doesn't cut it anymore in my book. Telling people "we don't know why women (in the USA) on average earn less even after researching it, therefore it must all be discrimination" is a bit of a stretch at this point. Especially when other studies have looked into and found other causes such as…

I became pregnant as a single woman in North Carolina. First I considered abortion. The nearest clinic was 3 hours away. I changed my mind and decided to find a low cost obgyn. I learned of a state run program like Medicaid for single pregnant women. All I needed to do to qualify was to get a diagnosis of…

Ugh. Whatever my feelings about plastic surgery are, why are we staring in sympathy at pictures of women who have had surgery for such a variety of reasons that we can't possibly know what is going going through their minds? Some may be sitting there with the weight of societal pressure on their minds and some may be…

FINALLY! I have a reason to use this gif!

For their part, the parents are like, "Um, I pay like threeve fafillion megabucks (PLUS 'charitable donations') for you to sit around while my dumb kid plays Oregon Trail

I'm going to quibble about something not terribly important (sorry!). You referred to Margaery's marital sex pep talk as boiling down to "lie back and think of England." I think you may have really misread that! I was surprised last week in fact that there wasn't more talk about Margaery's very interesting advice last…

The problem with objectification isn't that it causes insecurity. As in, the issue isn't that we see women who look better than the average woman on our screens. It's a given that images in the media will be more attractive than the average, in a lot of cases. There are some people who worry about the effect of all…

im not saying those people didnt work hard to get where they are, but we're currently facing vast inequality.

well, i realize this is more controversial, but i want a world where accumulating enough wealth to drop $1000 on a whim is not possible.

... Right, there's a pretty big cultural factor in how we understand most, if not all, mental disorders. That's not specific to PMS, that's how the entire DSM goes. And having a cultural component doesn't somehow make anyone's suffering less *real*.

It's easy to say that anyone can make a movie if you have enough gumption, but the reality is, that unless you have the skills to do 95% of all the preproduction, production, and post ALL BY YOURSELF, it's going to cost a lot of money and/or you have to pull TONS of favors from your friends in the industry. That's…

I really can't with this article, since Jezebel completely IGNORED Jane Campion's "Top of the Lake" series on Sundance Channel. It was written and directed by Jane Campion, starred Elisabeth Moss and Holly Hunter and was kick-ass.

This isn't quite correct.

OK, this needs qualifying. The EVAW law was passed as a Presidential Decree during a parliamentary recess in 2009 (other decrees have involved measures on counternarcotics, counterterrorism etc.). According to the Afghan constitution, this makes it Law without it necessarily having to be taken up by parliament.

Well luckily for us, this guy doesn't sit on any scientific or health related committees for Congress......oh wait.....he does....he sits on the Natural Resources and the Science, Space and Technology Committee. Well, he must at least have a M.S. or even a B.S. in something scientific, right? Nope, he has a B.A.…

I judge the sentiment behind words rather than the words. And yes I can differentiate between things to which it is reasonable to take offense and those which aren't. For instance, I had a crazy conversation on here the other day who was offended by the idea that women should have the right to vote. I don't have to…

The very idea that textual interpretation of faith is the only true interpretation is in and of itself an orientalist claim that does not reflect how people (Muslims, Jews, Christians, Hindus) actually live/embody their faith.

It's not going away. I know that's really hard for your type to swallow. You really seem to believe that your persistent griping about the lack of logic, proof, or even constancy in religious lifestyle is going to make the billions of religious people in the world suddenly stand up and say "by golly, you are right!…