It will always astound me that this happens in the richest countries in the world, all because some people want to make sure no one gets what they worked for for free, for any reason.

Unrelated but everyone needs to hear this. My dog got a Halloween costume today. She wanted to be Eeyore but they don't have Eeyore in her size. She had to settle for "lion." She threw a temper tantrum about it and refused to celebrate Halloween. We finally got her try the lion costume on and she likes it because…

Please make ArguingwithMoron go away!

There is a user, @Arguingwithmoron, in the comments posting dead animals, and animal abuse photos. DO NOT CLICK ON THE PICTURES. REPORT AND DISMISS THAT SHIT.

I wonder if this works, in part, because people are already used to paying an "optional" charge when they eat out, in the form of tipping. It's technically optional—at least, the amount you pay is—but it's governed by social norms about what's an appropriate amount. I know some people are resentful of the pressure to…

When I lived in Singapore, there was an Indian restaurant that had the same concept of pay what you can / if you can. It being Singapore, aka the most orderly place in the world, this worked really, really well. The waiters were extremely nice and very knowledgable of the food, it was 100% vegetarian and genuinely…

Hm, kind of hard to say. Misandry, perhaps... Though it's being used in such a way to further men. Like, guys say this shit to get out of housework. While society buys into it, it doesn't damage the status of men. Meanwhile, society has a lower opinion of a woman who can't do many chores.

It exists for her in the same sense that your internal organs exist for you — as a concept in your head because you don't get to know them first-hand, you don't get to look directly at them and say hi. Would you recognize your own brain in a lineup?

She's actually being quite eloquent here. She gets right at the truth that the "baby" is just a concept, a dream, a gift you have yet to open and don't know the contents of. She's saying that someday, she hopes to be able to do this again, and open that gift, that she would like to see the potential person become an…

I read it as an idea. When I was pregnant, it was an it. I didn't really feel like it was going to become a person; it was the idea - motherhood, baby, future, rightness. For me, I thought it was pretty spot-on. Maybe because I felt the same way when I was pregnant (and it was on purpose). I wasn't ready - I…

Ahhhh I love Big Freedia!!!! Their shows make straight men everywhere confused.

"Because it's the respectful, considerate thing to do, and it's shitty to make someone else clean up your mess."

Absolutely 100% agree.

To be fair Obama's been pretty open in the past about how Michelle had to clue him in on how he needed to be more involved. He's said that because of the way he grew up he just didn't really understand how being a husband and father worked, let alone being an equal partner in parenting.

Yes! This! Can you please take this statement across the country and educate people?? why is this so hard for people to comprehend?

Let's also remember the concept of "learned helplessness"—in this context, making sure you never become competent at a certain task so that you'll never be assigned it. For example, the one and only occasion Husband does the laundry, he just happens to ruin several items! D'oh! He has now successfully transferred…

He got the "nicer bedroom" instead of his sister. Since it is a bedroom that was originally a den, and that we have to cross to get to certain parts of the house, I figured the only non-gross child should have it. So now he is set up with a 42" tv and gaming system, living the high life.

This. It's like societies who make women wear burquas so they don't tempt men. How little faith do you have in men?

Benevolent sexism is the more accurate term. It's so fucking patronizing to women. It's one of those 'jokes' that are supposed to make us feel better about being women staying within their small gender box like saying that "hey, you don't have as much institutional power as men but you have your feminine wiles which…

That isn't really misandry, though. It's benevolent sexism. Men are capable of being PRESIDENT, yet they can't run the dishwasher? Bullshit.