It's not "imperialist" to care about the lives of people in other countries.

"But you guys! Murder is a long-standing cultural tradition among the Scottish! It's simply one of many manifestations of a complex unified culture, and we can't decry it as bad and try to work to stop it without changing the culture as a whole, which obviously is a bad thing because making sure that the culture…

I feel perfectly okay criticizing female genital mutilation, regardless of which culture happens to practice it.

There are health risks to this whole practice: improper sanitation, not being able to fully clean menstrual cloths in order to avoid later infections, oh, AND BEING FORCED TO CLUMP UP IN TINY SHACKS WITHOUT ELECTRICITY AND RUN THE RISK OF RAPE AND SNAKE BITE. But you go on, defending "traditions" that are just more…

Any article about the deplorable treatment of women in the third world quickly gets hijacked by a combination of apologists for worthless cultures shouting UR RACIST FOR TALKING ABOUT FACTS!!!! and narcissists who take, e.g., a story about gang-rape in India as an opportunity to talk about how one time they saw a man…

Thank you for letting me talk through this here. I've never had a conversation about this with anyone, so thanks for your help. It's nice not to just get "It's just part of your illness." I have a theory that mental illness is part of a spectrum of fey-ness - that some people are more sensitive to picking up on…

You could be a decent human being, and not go on national TV show and say kids your husband raped are lying even if you're in denial.

I strongly disagree with you. I don't think it's unreasonable at all for people to want her to recognize her husbands crimes. There has been an overwhelming amount of evidence presented to her indicating he is guilty of monstrous things but yet she is choosing to ignore all of it just so she can cling to some pathetic…

whenever my mom sends a mass email with a link to some Obama is a Socialist trope, I reply-all with a link to Whispering Pines Retirement Home, and point out their new low rates.

It sounds so simple, no?

I have friends who write for The Daily Show

Since the fuck when do you have to have had a child to be entitled to have an opinion? Contributes very little? Since the fuck when does one have had to had a child to have contribute anything? And what of those who cannot have children? Should they just drop dead now since their contribution means so damn little?…

Yea, the parents are in between a rock and a hard place - that sucks. But you know whose problem it's NOT? The letter writers!!!! He or she is trying to WORK. They are not her kids. This is a WORK environment. That's the issue here, not the school systems. Projecting much?

Oh yay an entitled parent who thinks that because they made the choice to have children the rest of the world has to revolve around them.

I'm sorry, but if you seriously think that the LW should just put up with their coworkers' kids because finding childcare is hard, you need to reevaluate your life. Part of having kids is making sure that they're be properly supervised. Period. My parents brought me to work when I was sick/there was no other option.…

Not having kids does not mean you can not have an opinion on a professional workplace environment. (Or about children for that matter, but that's another discussion.) If you have to bring your children into work, you are responsible for parenting them. The burden is on you, as the parent, to make sure your offspring…

Oh, look...an entitled parent who want special treatment because they have kids. Railing against the system in the US if fine, but don't make your kids your cowokers problem. They are NOT.

There's definitely grace involved in how the LW is acting, I don't know how she could handle it with more grace - she's not acting badly towards the kids, she brought it up with the parents and is expressing sympathy for their problems. She's looking outside herself to try to find a solution that's agreeable for…

Nope. Her co-workers need to be more professional. End of.

They didn't say anything about snow days and you don't know that that is the issue. I have kids. And I pay for afterschool care for my kids. One of my coworkers relied on her mother for her after school care and when something came up she started leaving work every day to go pick the child up from school (about 1.5…