Everyone should have the option to take paid time off for extraordinary life circumstances and allowances for health or family obligations, like caring for one's children, parents, or other dependents. But having children is not like a vacation, nor does anyone do it once a year. Seriously, that is one of the dumber…

As a gay man who would love 6 weeks of paid maternity equivalent leave every year for absolutely no reason, I still think this is a stupid comment. Not everything in life needs to be completely equal and fuck you for begrudging people the time they need to recover from a medical situation.

I will say that i did not like the bit at the beginning where she said we have fought for everyone else's equal rights, i am sorry no we haven't and i feel like this always happens with white feminism.

Okay. Well. Hmm. I'm an emotion researcher by trade, and I am highly, highly skeptical of these data. First of all, as a rule, people are *terrible* at retrospectively telling you how they felt about something when it happened. Because we don't stop emotionally processing after the thing is over - we go back, we…

I dunno, the "wasn't truly in love" is sometimes accurate, but also sometimes not, I think; even if you (the general "you") were in love in a stupid or unhealthy way or it ended poorly, it can still have been love.

In all fairness - but being horrible doesnt exclude loving the other person (rather excludes being completely sane maybe)

I think it could be true, but probably because women are more likely to be fed the whole "love of my life" fairytale thing, so it could be harder for us to admit to loving multiple men, in case it "devalues" our current man.

Hey babe, I'm looking at my British passport right now, and in very clear text it refers to me as a British citizen. Who should I write to so it can be corrected?

Ah, but they did, or burned them mostly (see Cathare). Look, I think Islam comes from the armpit region of religions and a modern person who believes in flying horses is a complete rube. But it seems to me every major religion aims for totalitarian political ideology, remember how the Pope created the Anglican…

Y'all.

Children? According to Islam they're old enough to marry and impregnate, so they're adults. Or don't you respect the cultures and beliefs of other lands? Stop forcing your western ideals onto them. Oppression! Oppression!

I know I'm in the greys but this is actually an area i'm studying in detail at the moment so I thought I'd throw in my two cents.

Thank you, Kara, for Shade Court.

It's because it's so hot down South, they're always searching for the shade.

Reminds me of the time my mother pulled aside my sister-in-law at her wedding to my brother and said he may be your husband now but he'll always be my little boy. And my mother has had the nerve to wonder all these years why my sister-in-law avoids her as much as possible?

"From the woman who loved you first."

When I applied my first job working at a shelter for survivors of domestic violence, I was young, still in college, and working full-time as a customer service rep. My cover letter, and my interview, made comparisons between helping customers get the answers and service that they needed, dealing with irate customers…

Whoever that tipster is? S/he's an ASSHOLE.

On the one hand, it sounds like a rookie mistake of trying to conflate a job that in all reality probably has little in common with the one she's applying for. It took me a while to learn to not list my entire work history on resumes and to stick to the most applicable experience. A lot of people do this. And…

Really curious about the type of victim's rights organization that allows its staff to share job applicants' cover letters to be mocked online. Yay privacy and respect! Suggest they re-evaluate staff they've already hired, and start looking for the a replacement for the bully that shared this.