Right, I agree—that's why I said it's a BIG "maybe".

No one is demanding that Bolotow be neutral. The problem is that she was portrayed, in the article as being at least potentially far more neutral than she is. She was only referred to as an assistant, not as his frequent model and girlfriend.

In some cases, they also feared for their physical safety in the present, not just the future of their careers.

The only case where I could see it MAYBE making sense (and that's a big "maybe") is if someone has a bunch of kids and they are neglectful and/or abusive and/or aren't paying child support. Here, they're bringing something completely unrelated to the case they're trying in as a bargaining tool. Nope. Not cool.

I think you're thinking of Papa John's.

Aah...yeah, I'd forgotten how really, REALLY young a lot of new recruits are (and that one might expect their girlfriends to also be). And the rushed nature/urgency of some of these relationships, due to imminent deployment, is a good point. It seems like a lot of them just don't get to know each other well enough.

As someone who can't ride a bike because I end up with pubic pain for days afterward, I hate to say, as ugly as those are...they might actually be useful.

Yup. Because the fact that no one told a CHILD about big, heavy, dark adult things TOTALLY means it never happened, right?

Presumably the soldiers are attracted to these women who are attracted to them, if they end up dating. Obviously it is solely the women's responsibility if they treat these guys badly—I don't dispute that—but where is the responsibility of the soldiers in being attracted to women who are bad for them?

We also don't know why they broke up. Was he a huge asshole? Not that it would make her selling his dog out from under him okay (SHE is responsible for her choices, NOT him), but, if he treated her badly it could explain why she felt no compunctions about hurting his feelings.

At least the point was that Willow had no fashion sense.

Most people don't. It's meant to replace foundation for those who don't want much coverage.

Man, this is a great comment. Concise and straight to the point, it's the "Nice Guy" thing in a nutshell.

Obviously, I meant to say "at best, it often results in name-calling." Oops.

Yeah...anyone who reacts like that to you saying you want to bring a friend is probably up to something. I have no doubt you did the right thing.

Where you're from must be completely different than the rest of us, because there most certainly IS pressure to just laugh off sexual harassment and even some assault. The way a lot of perpetrators (and bystanders) react when women call that sort of thing out should illustrate it pretty clearly. At the worst, it…

Ha! Especially if he got an English degree :P But, yeah, it is kind of a party school. Or was, don't know if that's still the case.

So did my mom. Probably other people I know, too, and I'm just not aware of it. It's a pretty decent school.

There's a Mount Pleasant here in Michigan, too.

I've never belonged to a union, but I've worked a lot of retail, and a lot of what I've heard about Meijer does sound better than where I've been. Which is probably a big part of why so many stores are against the idea of unionizing :/