this is happening where I live, so two interesting notes on the law:

Honestly, I'm less panicked over this than I am when I read about kids being "home-schooled."

I'm still trying to convince my girlfriend she doesn't need to wear makeup....

I know this is unsolicited, but please tread lightly with your girlfriend and examine why it is you're trying to convince her. She doesn't NEED to wear makeup, but people do all kinds of things they don't strictly NEED to all the time, every single day. Why single out makeup in particular? Does it make her happy? Is…

I know that you're trying to be nice but can you really not understand why women who are constantly told they are not skinny/sexy/beautiful/etc enough would want to get plastic surgery? Or wear make up for that matter? Isn't it wonderful that women are not only held to a ridiculous standard of beauty but we're…

Choices that people make with regards to their appearance shouldn't be shamed in and of themselves. There's nothing inherently wrong with makeup, just like there's nothing inherently wrong with wearing nice clothes. The problem is when people are shamed into behaviors or procedures to meet standards that are…

Oh shut up. Your post is the Ted Cruz of Kinja.

Or challenging Kodiak bears to arm wrestling.

No one here is abusing you. Correcting your misunderstanding isn't abuse. I'm sorry you feel cornered here, but I don't think your point was clearly made, and it seems to come down to your lack of knowledge of a pretty basic term, one which you might read daily in the news.

Come on. Don't pretend that the term "class" is some sort of legal jargon you can't fathom understanding outside of a courtroom. It's a regular term that non-lawyers use all the time when talking about important issues like this intelligently.

I'm sorry if you are taking offense, but I think you're misunderstanding the term. I'm using "class" as a specific legal term in employment discrimination law, not colloquially to make a value judgment or generalization about anyone. Title VII and the civil rights law protects certain traits from being used as a…

Yeah, but here's the problem; there are only so many managers. Only so many executives, only so many office jobs, and only so many jobs that you would define as career jobs. I'm sure that the mother of two working at Wendy's would love to have a better job! But education takes time and money, and isn't even a…

You are exactly correct. It's not just teens working these jobs anymore. But this speaks to a larger problem of education and United States citizens not being qualified to do anything else. Why should businesses be punished b/c the workforce, as a whole, is underqualified?

Why is spring?

Buddy, take it easy. You called another commenter a cunt for an innocuous opinion on another article. You're obviously just here because you have a problem with women. Go back to your reddit thread and cry to someone who cares.

raise your hand if you wouldn't be alive if it weren't for some hardcore medicine/science.

This is just my opinion but I find the publication of this essay to be a bit premature. You really ought to have waited until she had passed 10 months or even a year, and continued to speak with her and present the way she dealt with the eventual non-birth of the non-baby. The way it's written, this essay seems…

I'm not totally comfortable with this article.

2 dead babies. You're forgetting about the anencephalic twins.

Ruby may be nutty as a squirrel turd, but the psychiatric system is so thoroughly awful that nobody should ever have to go through it—-it's worse than any gung-ho right-wing military hotshot ever thought up to do to Muslims at Gitmo.