This might be a height/proportions issue. I have a long torso and short legs so lots of jumpsuits don’t fit me properly. If you try one on again, pay special attention not just to what looks wrong, but why it looks wrong. I found a looser fitting one with a longer waist and was in business. It’s also jersey so is…

This is not true. It hasn’t been true for more than 20 years...

Still agreeing with you here - by “that’s not how the law works” I mean that legislation can’t be exhaustive of every possible situation and the legal process is necessary for drawing those lines and making it clear.

I don’t disagree with you at all. However, that’s not how the law works. People are protected from religious discrimination. They have to be. Where that line gets drawn is why cases like this are interesting and important.

I wonder what the religious policy is for sitting next to a trans person. Does god care most about gender performance, chromosomes, or current shape of genitals?

I’m 100% Team Woman here, but I also understand why the flight attendants made the decision they did. Like I said to someone else - if this is an ongoing issue then the head office needs to give clear instructions on handling the situation.

That is pretty much the line the courts try to walk. Like in the second case I mentioned, they determined that the security difference between swipe cards and biometric wasn’t big enough to warrant firing three people.

This is interesting because it’s essentially about competing rights. What is my right to not be moved/inconvenienced because I’m a woman, compared to someone else’s right to not sit next to a woman if they have a genuinely held belief that it is against their religion? Canada had an interesting case that examined this…

Woah! Mine was “only” $360, which is just the actual cost of the IUD. I had to pay up front because my local PP can’t process insurance payments, but I got the full amount back. If it had been $1000 I’d have struggled to pay it in the first place.

I was very lucky - I was pretty okay. Uncomfortable but functioning and totally fine by day 3.

That last one is legit - that shit is expensive! I told Mr Penguin that if my benefits wouldn’t cover all of my IUD then I expected him to pony up. Luckily for me Planned Parenthood does IUDs at cost so there was no copay.

Yeah, I only made it about halfway through season 3. Just wasn’t feeling it.

Yes. This. Even in my pro-choice friends I’ve heard people say things like “More people should choose adoption.” But adoption is not an abortion alternative, it is a child-rearing alternative. They are two completely different choices, both absolutely valid, but not interchangeable.

One of the engineering societies at my university used to have an event called The Chunder Run. Every loop of the track you had to eat a meat pie and drink a beer. Last one to puke was the winner.

This is my nightmare. Like I have actually had nightmares about this.

I think you might be my nemesis.

A brand you can get in New Zealand, Libra, put facts on their liners and pads. Like on the backing that you peel off. “There are 32 muscles in a cats ear” and stuff like that.

Another opportunity to share my favourite ever headline! Working for a small city newspaper when the local council decided it really wasn’t feasible to get two pandas for the local animal park - the paper headline was:

Who else would you root for? Team “Pretentious guy who starts fights and WRITES IN YOUR BOOKS” or Team “Yeah, I’m married but I’ll totes take your v-card”?

It’s not easy! And I don’t have kids, which I imagine makes it harder to prioritize friend-making activities. The good thing about meetup is that everyone is open to meeting new people, whereas in other places people kind of already have their friends. They might be friendly, but they’re not actively looking for new…