I think that the current feminist trend of fawning over hijabs is the product of some “enemy of my enemy” logic. The RWNJs hate Muslims, and since they hate all things good, Muslims must be good, even when they aren’t. Any religion or sect that tells women they have to cover themselves so they don’t seduce the…

It is misogyny, but the white man isn’t perpetuating it, so white women feminism has deemed it to be okay.

Mixed feelings...love inclusion/ still feel that women wearing a hijab is the product of misogyny.

I know who that is!

To most sane people it means if there is a defect discovered not normal wear and tear over the course of years.

I had a lovely conversation with a cashier at a Jewel (Chicago grocery store chain), and here’s what she said customers have tried to return to her:

- What had been a large slab of meat with the meat cut out, and all the marbling/fat left on the styrofoam carton. Customer said, “she wasn’t going to eat the fat”.
- What…

I heard a radio story about the LL Bean return policy last year and their first attempt to overhaul their return policy was to start letting employees gently ask people this question. Before they were required to be judgement free no matter what was being returned.

I work at a department store and it is mind-boggling what people will bring in.

My current girlfriend and family is Polish, they speak a mix of Polish-English all the time. I just assume they are talking about me. It’s not a pleasant sounding language, so I also assume its bad things. In all seriousness, I try to learn- but its very hard at age 40. I pick up words and phrases, poorly. Why is…

I was in the return line at the Freeport store about 5 years ago. The customer in front was an older gentleman who was returning a pair of boat shows because they wore out. The clerk asked him how long he had them and he told her “10 years.” She asked him politely if he agreed that was a very reasonable length of time…

That’s not necessarily true at all. It really depends on the generation of immigrants. Most were so desperate to integrate and become fully Americanized that they never spoke their language to their children, just each other.

#notallvases.

I love how folks don’t understand that the Second Wave siblings aren’t even in the grown kids’ minds most of the time. — Child of Divorce, My Sisters Are Closer to My Kid’s Age, Ain’t Nobody Paying Attention to Them But My StepMonster.

I love any reason to to post the 8 different language compilation of Girlfriend by Avril Lavigne. Now seems an adequate time.

This is not in Kutcher’s defense, because I don’t know him, but as a defense of my own pet peeve. I grew up bilingual and feel uncomfortable when people try to engage me in another language than the larger group setting. Its kind of rude to the rest of the group and 9/10 when its in an English-speaking group its just…

I say keep sterilization suggestions out of the courtroom, offer it for free and advertise it everywhere else. Plenty of people would do it if it were easy enough for them and why not.

Yeah, I was a case worker in adult education and experienced many similar scenarios. We had multiple generations of students from the same family with the same rap sheet: drugs, booze, multiple children (more than 3) before 22, cognitive impairments from substance abuse, etc. And a good chunk of them were lower/…

I feel the same complicated emotions. This isn’t a solution, but being pro-sex and pro-choice and pro-birth control doesn’t address the culture that doesn’t promote a conscious approach to parenthood. And most liberal, educated perspectives on this are way too rosy re: the fate of children in these situations. Love is…

I’m an addiction counselor in a rural area, and most of my clients are poor, low-functioning, and have low educational levels. Many of them have no transportation or internet access. They often have unstable housing.

So when are these judges gonna start snipping dudes? Seems not just extremely gross action but also, when I went to the dr in 2010 he asked if I was considering getting my daughter the hpv vaccine. First, how inappropriate I had pneumonia that doesn’t make me a floozy with children that are all sex deviants, second I…