Those people are idiots. And ftr, I’ve never heard a conservative link that with “safe spaces”; “PC police,” maybe.

But you don’t think that that entitles you never to have to drive, right?

But academics are about learning and opening your perspective, not hiding from things you don’t immediately appreciate. Seriously, if someone is “triggered” or threatened by reading material that they don’t agree with, to the point that they think that they alone should be excused from it, then they are rejecting…

This is an important point In law school, for the social policy & the law journal, the tryout was taking one side or the other on an issue that had to do with gay rights (I think the real-life backdrop was whether a particular group could march against it - the Hibernians or something? This was 1992...). You don’t…

Sadly, I don’t think your meanings align with the expectations of a lot (or at least a loud segment) of certain college students. The concepts were intended as shields, but they’re used as swords now.

I agree; however, the other part of that social contract is for people not to act like they were raised in barns. Being a willful jackass adds nothing to the conversation. Group-created or formal “safe spaces” in general population situations (like a classroom, vs. a support group) is stupid and irritating, but…

But everyone does that; that’s not a Millennial thing.

No. She’s elected to be on inactive status since 1993.

Hey, even with the dadbod he’s got going on there, he’s still better to watch and a more interesting person than the current cast of candidate characters.

Oh, and I know my waist and leg-length, but my legs tend to be too long for petites and too short for regular (even with 4" heels)...and so absent tailoring, they’re never even close.

I’m short, too! And I look for things that accentuate the hourglass (even the expanded one of the last year or two); size 6 and under, I found lots of choices; once I hit 8-10, everything seemed to be cut to apple shapes and/or boxed up, leaving extra fabric here and over-snugness there. I tend to look more at flowy…

You don’t have to convince me! :-) And yes, like in your response to accesscode, “my size” varies according to store, line, designer, and, apparently, the alignment of planets. I will say, though, that I think we women kind of hate hearing actual numbers (measurements); it takes ages of experience with this or that…

...and if Hillary wore skirt-suits, we’d have to hear about her cankles and thick legs even more than we already do....

Gah, don’t get me started on women’s suiting. Tailoring is virtually never included; if the garment doesn’t fit you, it’s your fault, not something a tuck or a seam could fix, apparently. And so yes, there are size 6s and 12s and whatnot, which for many women is frustrating because they may actually warrant different…

Oh, good grief. Not just to you but to everyone else decrying the boxy look of these women’s outfits: do you notice a difference in stature between the women on that stage and Katherine Hepburn or the young woman in the cigarette-pant ensemble? That’s rhetorical, because of course you do. I personally think the…

You’ve got your answer, but CORRECT - none of those women is wearing a pantsuit. Those are SEPARATES.

Oh, I know, and I hope you don’t think I was being glib - my point in including the thinnest skeleton of my own situation was to suggest that I totally get the pressures of massively competing priorities; I have had nearly 15 years of it. And that as someone who has been pushed to the brink and beyond, I also know…

Myrna, I feel you. I’m a 20-year lawyer/risk professional historically at large firms/fortune 50 companies, divorced mother of 2 girls (for the last 10 years), with a disengaged clinical narcissist of an ex-husband who fundamentally thinks women are even less human than the rest of the universe. ...Consider letting go…

...and Minnesota was missing Joseph, Harrison and Barr, so.