$2 on $8? That's more than 20%. While I'm all for excessive tipping, I'm also not going to drop a $5 tip on an $8 service. And I work in a tip-based industry.

Okay, so like $10. Still.

Wow. Okay then. I only ever get a manicure, like, twice a year, and even then I go for the plainest version which is like 8 bucks. So I guess I'm behind the times on manicure pricing.

Um, you're paying way too much for your manicure. What are you getting, diamond-crusted tips?

16 hours is actually a pretty long time. That's two standard workdays, right there.

The whole media industry loves to glamorize villains— it sells copies (or gets viewers, whichever.)

The purpose of a jury is to decide whether the law has been broken. They're not there to create the law or pass judgement on it— only to decide if someone has acted outside of the established laws of the community, and when you serve on a jury they make that very, very clear.

Janelle Monae can do no wrong.

Don't worry lady/dude, some of us are right there with you.

What I'm taking away from your argument* is mostly that you're making it sound very easy to make that choice, and I think it's a disservice to the realities of the (various) situations. I'm not really saying myself that we should feel bad for these women, but mostly that we need to acknowledge the truth that the…

I tried to apply independently, and it was denied. I was told that until the age of 24, I was, for the purposes of the FAFSA, considered a dependent of my parents whether or not they were providing for me. Maybe there was a route to apply that I didn't know about, but I was nineteen and the first person in my whole…

Loans aren't always an option. I was denied financial aid via the FAFSA multiple times throughout my college career because the government decided that my parents were paying for my tuition, even though they clearly weren't; and I was repeatedly denied private loans. I ended up taking 8 years to get through by working…

This gif is both terrifying and delightful.

Oh my god, for a moment I thought this book was written by a woman, and I was like what the everloving fuck. But nope. Just the foreword.

Yeah, she really is killing that dress.

Well, should they leave the offending images up, then? While their apology could have been much better (I'm really growing to hate "we apologize to anyone who thinks they need an apology, whatevs")— deleting the spread from the web is the right move.

In Israel, they do— it's part of a deal that was worked out between the Ultra-Orthodox population and the government in 1948, when Israel declared itself a state. The intent was that these religious scholars would work to replenish the vast knowledge lost in the Holocaust, and the state would support them (to an…

I tend to have the same knee-jerk reaction to the more highly publicized incidents between Ultra-Orthodox and secular women, but the reality of it is that it's often a case of a few bad apples, and a lot of the other people in the community are embarrassed by what their comrades have done. Most of the loud and…

It's not about the individual who wants to give service, it's about the community as a whole. It doesn't matter if one, two, or even a hundred people want to give service, it's about whether the community as a whole does, and whether it's asked of them. If the state asks something of a community, it means the…

I used to work in the building that was used for the exterior shots of the "Friends" apartment building. There was a tour coming through every fifteen minutes, no lie.