It is hilarious, once you realize the person isn’t sprinting because the building is on fire or anything important.

Seriously! I have one on one meetings with my male supervisor all the time, and it’s fine because he treats everyone appropriately. That’s all it takes, people!

Exactly. If you’re panicking about regular business encounters being “misconstrued,” you’ve probably done shit that makes your colleagues think you are unprofessional at best with women.

Wall street bros have been doing this forever, that or they invite women and then harass them. Leave it to these assholes to see gender discrimination as the best mechanism to prevent harassment.

And what if a post office is involved?

But what if it’s, like, raining?

I’d love to know how many of these men were going to mentor women *in the first fucking place*. My guess is none of them.

“When I hear people espousing free government-paid college, free government-paid health care and a free government job for everyone—on top of a $21 trillion debt—the question is, how are we paying for all this and not bankrupting the country?”

I mean, is he asking how we’ve paid for our ungodly expesnive wars and corporate tax cuts and shit? If not, he can STFU with that.

I’ve always thought of broke as being a temporary situation. Even if you anticipate being without funds for quite some time, even years, you can see a point in the future when your financial situation will be better. Poor, on the other hand, is indefinite. It takes a greater toll emotionally, because it’s hard to…

But just imagine, he’ll solve racism by having all of America attend a two-day training program at every Starbuck’s location!

I also feel there’s this misconception that one has to be a monocle-sporting, Maybach-driving person of leisure to be out of touch. There is always a poorer, more invisible economic underclass at each social stratum. It’s difficult for most people to imagine, much less understand, that reality because they don’t think…

Wow. Somehow you managed to read that entire article and still miss the entire point of the article....Plus, you managed to add the new spin of “dummy, you should have planned better and just been born poor.”

Counterpoint - have you read any of the grey comments on this post? Heard any politicians talk about “entitlements”? Plenty of judgment to go around.

I’m not sure how to classify myself. Maybe you can help.

Wow, thanks so much for this. Gonna share it far and wide. It’s particularly glaring after Wilbur Ross’ comments this week. Poverty is so much different than it used to be, too. People who grew up poor in the 60's and 70's faced a totally different set of circumstances than those who deal with it now, at least in the…

I used to work for a Women’s Agency in Chicago. Our board was all women. And the women we served? 97% lived below the poverty level. We provided different services (including psychological counseling, housing, employment assistance, and emergency assistance). Anyway, one day we’re talking about the need for our board…