Seriously. I mean, I’m sure it gets tricky when you have to lay people off and they have any sort of protected status, like pregnancy, but seriously, when you’re laying off several pregnant women? It didn’t occur to their lawyers that that might be really, really, bad?

I have an excellent deathly hollows story. I pre-ordered the book online. I also ordered, from a different site, used copies of all the other books so my bf could catch up. 2 days before the release, deathly gallows got delivered. I was so confused, but finished it before the release. The day after the release? I got…

I understand the reasoning here, but from a media point of view, it seems like a cop-out. Suicide is bad. We don’t want people to commit suicide. And I think it should be covered as such - it’s not about the shock value, but about not sugar-coating it. If the headline is horrendous, then it’s horrendous. She didn’t…

If you don't know what thinspo is, you're missing a very big part of this conversation and why images like this are such a big issue.

I don’t think this is noteworthy - if you want your wedding to be featured in a magazine A) you don’t mind going through all this and B) your stationery better match.

My mom told me that when i was little I asked “where did I come from?” And she took a deep breath and went into an age appropriate technical explanation. I patiently listened, and then said, “no, mommy, where did *I* come from?” I wanted to know where I was born.

And kids are satisfied with easy answers. I remember (and my my has told me about) asking questions when I was little, and she just gave me simple answers and hoped for the best. I saw two men holding hands and asked why and she said “because they live each other.” That made sense. I saw a really androgynous person…

I’d like to say I would speak up, but on a plane? I’d leave it to the crew. There are too many instances of planes being diverted because a passenger was “aggressive” and it would be hard to be calm with an asshole like that. And while it sucks that he said mean things to her, he didn’t threaten her. There are hateful…

Yeah, I don’t ever bother getting annoyed at people who have to go to the bathroom, or even get up and stretch - if i’m not window, I always tell my seatmates not to hesitate to pop up whenever they need to. I mean, no one LIKES airplane bathrooms so obviously anyone who could hold it, would.

Looked at the pic in the link - doesn’t seem to be an issue if your tits don’t fit into the costume to the point where you can’t see the restaurant name.

Just FYI ... that person in the middle seat who keeps using the bathroom might have IBS that’s horribly exacerbated by the air pressure no matter how much medication and ginger ale she has. And she might have tried her damnedest and pleaded and bribed to get an aisle seat near the bathroom on any flight that could…

I used to feel the same way, and then my godson decided to go through a very difficult escape-artist/defiance phase, and if he wasn’t tied down, he would disappear into a crowd in a second. I’d prefer a thousand judgey stares to losing a child, so I get it now.

I feel like sometimes the tall, blonde, white women get whatever their brand of feminism is discounted because they are tall, blond, and white. For example, I’m not sure I see anything much more progressive or inclusive about Beyonce, but she doesn’t seem to get the same amount of flack that Taylor does. Even look at…

I worked for a university for years and it was well known that everyone went to academic lectures for the free cheese and wine.

I had a couple friends in high school who worked at a bakery chain and brought home everything at the end of the night - they sort of had a rotation of whose house they brought giant bags of pastry to, and they’d bring the bags of bagels to school, so we always had snacks around, which was cool, because we were all…

I imagine this is something that’s difficult to really explain for these celebs, and consequently, they’re doing it poorly. My interpretation of this kind of behavior (or more specifically, black celebs not claiming their “blackness”) has always been more that they’re rich - they know they’re rich. They know that…

Best friends for 12+ years, together off and on for half of that. Called off a wedding for him. He went on a trip to the UK, left me caring for his house, cats, car, and ailing mother. I found out he was cheating. In the three weeks he was gone, I decided to move 3000 miles from Philadelphia to San Diego so I would…

Nope, because cyclists share the road with motorists. I had a friend bike drunk, veer in front of a car, and get hit. She lived, the driver lived, but she could have caused a very major accident. If you’re on the road drunk, you can kill other people, plain and simple.

These kids are all gonna look like the honey boo boo family.

Once upon a time, where trading food wasn’t a lunchroom offense punishable by death, kids used to work this out on their own. We all just let our parents pack whatever, and then we traded until we were content and then we ate our food. It’s my understanding that this now lands you in elementary school gulag.