It took a lot of convincing to get them to do the cultural sensitivity presentation. The initial response by the group of faculty put together known as the "Diversity Committee" had suggested just doing a potluck to solve all the discriminatory/prejudicial woes. After the shut-down of ever doing a cultural sensitivity…

Hey! This particular law school has a professor who is notorious for giving his female students A's in his class if they agree to come on his boat and put on a bikini. That same offer isn't extended to the male students, so... privilege?

I recently experienced this with a friend of mine— I've been able to have exactly the kind of births I want, which happen to be natural, two of them at home, with lightning quick healing time that allows me to get back to the things I enjoy sooner (like... running. Gah, I hate pregnancy for taking away my running). A…

I've done the home birth thing twice— the midwife and her assistant do ALL THE CLEANING. All the blood, goop, feces, everything that falls out of you is cleaned up like the birth never happened while you are nestled comfortably on your own couch or in your own bed. It is delightful.

According to RAINN (https://rainn.org/statistics), 2/3 of assaults are committed by someone known to the victim. Not that this statistic necessarily negates what you're saying (these could be very popular serial rapists with large social circles), but from what I understand, it means more like date rape, acquaintance…

I agree completely. There was actually a study done in Asia (by the BBC, I want to say?) where they found that if they didn't use the word "rape," but explanations of sexual encounters that qualified as rape, 25% of the men interviewed said that they had raped. When the word "rape" was used, though, the percentage was…

I think it's a dangerous result of this idea that rapists are the creepy villains in the black ski masks that are just sick, twisted individuals— they can't be fixed! They can't be taught! When the reality is that rapists are normal people a lot of the time, that just have this belief that women are things they're…

Gah, I hate rings. I hate them. I have one that falls in the cheaper category, and it's beautiful. Everything I'd dreamed of (solitaire round cut with white gold). But it's such a pain. I can't wear it to lift weights. I kept scratching the crap out of my babies when I wore it. And it started feeling like a dog…

Yeah. I think the issue was that the person I had do the presentation is a social work professor (and an AMAZING social work professor at that), but she was used to a social work (and thus, less ethnocentric) audience. When it was done in my graduate program, most of us were self aware enough to recognize our own…

For the record, there were some amazing, AMAZING JDs there that I absolutely loved and would have adopted and treated as kittens for the rest of their lives. It just really sucked that in terms of the students, the loudest ones were the ones that seem to validate all the lawyer jokes.

Nope. A lot of people agreed with him, including faculty. And these prestigious law school professors defended his right to say it, and all of the other discriminatory crap that was said by students and by professors, under Free Speech.

Twas a very hard place to be a social worker.

Unfortunately, I think he would have had zero problems finding a study group. It was the first year they had a cultural sensitivity program in the orientation, at my doing, and it was also the last, because the administration took the complaints about THAT guy's comment from the minority students as an indication that…

This reminds me of the white guy standing up at law school orientation during the cultural sensitivity presentation, and responding to the prompt of "when was the first time you felt different or discriminated against?" he said, "When I applied to law school, because I knew I'd have a harder time getting in as a white…

I appreciate that in the world you live in, all therapists are perfect and awesome and always do their job to the T. However, there is no guarantee that the therapist would have made the report. The therapist definitely should have, but it's not always definite.

You know it's a rough DB when Kanye comes out looking like the hero of the day.

Seriously. All the love and hugs to that manager of the last one. I'm so glad that if that woman had to endure something so awful, so terrible, and risk losing faith in humanity (seriously? You're going to witness your kids being horrific and condone that behavior?), that there was a manager to validate the awful and…

It should be noted that while beards are prohibited, mustaches are not. Because a beard is rebellious, but a mustache is always classy.

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I've contemplated getting rid of it several times (for this reason and for others), but I don't know how I feel about a grad program telling you to get rid of it. So much socialization happens through it, and in a field where you are constantly reminded to engage in self-care, it seems contradictory to say, "Oh, and…

The new policy negatively impacts the audience described in this article, and it also creates issues for other populations. People don't put their actual name for multiple reasons— I don't use my real name on there because I am an adult mental health therapist, and it causes issues when clients can seek me out in…

Or maybe it's because they think that's what love looks like. My mom said a lot of things that still burn in my brain— "You're the fattest person I've ever had the misfortune of meeting" is not a fun thing for a 12 year old to hear from her mother. I was denied privileges my siblings enjoyed because I was fat (one…