Only medical professionals, insurers, etc can violate HIPAA. Your partner, unless they are your health care provider, is not violating HIPAA if they divulge your medical information, they are just being a terrible person.

I'm fairly certain it is.

HIPAA applies to medical professionals. If you told me your deepest, most personal and horrific medical struggle I could write it in the sky and not be in trouble with HIPAA. I'd be a fucking asshole and you might theoretically be able to sue me for defamation, but there is no law against talking about someone's…

I don't think she's pulling the wool over any Fox exec's eyes. I think they're willing to hire anyone who can bring in ratings, wherever they lay politically l. I don't think she is great or brilliant.

True but a lot of generally reasonable people can get kind of batshit on certain issues. It's possible that she is a moderate with a few right wing tendencies that allow her to tolerate the Fox News environment, but not so utterly blinded that she can't, at least superficially, see a lot of issues for what they are.

I can sympathize with a dude not wanting period sex (and I can also sympathize with women who that is a deal breaker for) as long as they aren't generally all "eww gross" about periods. I mean, I've been dealing with my menstrual blood since I was a preteen and I still would, you know, rather not. So I don't blame…

Someone doesn't have to be trans to experience or evoke transphobia. The perception of trans status and reactions to can be trans phobia.

1000% agree with you, but I can see what he is saying. Homophobes and racists are not ostracized, but there tends to be a significant public outcry when blatantly homophobic and racist things happen in the media, even if they don't end up being changed. Transphobia gets much less of a widespread outcry because a lot…

That's why I wrote "elite" not elite. I think elite as a value judgment is stupid, but the argument this article is making is that Charlie Hebdo satirists are elite. The article talks about how these artists are not racist fratboys, but educated. Aside from the fact that those things are not mutually exclusive, I'm…

So I'm surprised that I know this, but I think Kourtney is the oldest.

I would say most people don't consume satire, but the most famous satire in the US are The Daily Show, The Onion, and The Colbert Report. I'm fairly certain you'll find a very high proportion of college grads working on these media.

I think they meant in the sense that it's still profitable for the company...

What a fucking strawman that frat boy paragraph is. Americans aren't so stupid as to think a very famous French magazine is run by frat boys. We have big satire magazines over hear too and are aware that these jobs generally go to well-educated, well-connected people.

Not even applicable. Kitty Genovese was about not bothering to help astranger. It wasn't their child's teacher. Anyone who would cite that as a reason for not stopping the murder of someone they knew is an idiot.

Well it's not likely that if she was uncomfortable she would tell her dad that the Vice President was making her uncomfortable. Or that he would say so if she had.

I don't think she's a feminist role model, but scum of the earth is absolutely ridiculous. She's annoying at worst.

If the military is actually working on doing something (big IF) and he just wants to say something hopeful without divulging military shit he might be saying in more of a figure of speech way.

The line between the two is a lot finer than you might think.

Honestly, I don't think it's a big deal either way. If you're not comfortable calling yourself a feminist don't. The label just helps people organize and identify like minded people. It doesn't change much.

My additional understanding is that this is often what many members of these religions want - for the law to intervene and force them so that their hands are free of the sin and their child lives.