I’m not sure why “women, the vast majority of whom have experienced sexual harassment on the job” should have to make themselves hideous for this? It’s a solidarity thing, and black is the one color that doesn’t have a trillion shades.

Those posters made me seethe. She might have known. I personally think it’s feasible she didn’t (too high up the food chain) but she wasn’t the abuser and it makes my blood boil when people will find a reason, any reason, to somehow blame women for men’s crimes.

I think that’s the point though. You can. We all can, it’s just so fucking hard sometimes. It’s so hard when someone is shitty to you to recognize that they’re probably coming from a place of pain, so we go through a cycle of negativity being shitty to each other around and around. But then if somebody can respond to…

Taxing the wealthy is not stealing. Income inequality is stealing. You are dead wrong. Countries that have a robust social safety net have nowhere near the homeless problem we have. People are malnourished here and the programs you speak of are woefully underfunded. This is only going to get worse and people will be…

They all pay FICA. Take the cap off that and Social Security and Medicare will be doing great.

The job market is very difficult for youngins right now, and it’s usually not just that they all want a big fancy job right out the gate. A person with that much debt can’t afford to pay it and rent every month on the salaries that are being offered for many of the entry-level jobs being offered. So sure, she could…

Would rather send them to Saint Helena, Napoleon’s final address.

Because, wait for it, there are multiple countries in the world and they don’t all have the same requirements.

<<I count the real villain here as Delta Airlines, which asked for my passport number and expiration date when I booked the tickets last summer, but did not provide me with any kind of warning about the three-month rule. It’s not surprising that an airline would hang their customers out to dry in these situations—I…

Today I Learned: Rural Oregon has a massive problem with transient muggers.

Yes it’s a catch 22 or else they wouldn’t be able to afford to take care of those kids either. This is a failure of the city and the school board. Way to jump to an extreme tho, really proves your point...

Go get your kids and do what with them? Stay home and not get paid? Let them sit at home unsupervised? Take them to work and make them wait in the car because you’re not allowed to bring children into the factory or restaurant?

It’s a catch 22, either stay home with your kids and get fired or send them to a school that’s in an underfunded district.

The alternative is to expect the school system to do the bare minimum to ensure their buildings are up to code. And if they can’t do that, then it’s field trip day to whatever natural history museum has working heat imo.

Because they have jobs and can’t afford daycare?

Humanities PHDs ain’t easy by a long shot. Also, STEM fields tend to have more impressive young prodigies because of the nature of the knowledge and its assessment—this is not to diminish this woman’s profoundly impressive achievement, but you’re not serving anyone by disrespecting entire fields of knowledge in the…

I can get where you’re coming from, and maybe it’s a function of being broke grad students together, but I definitely have a core group of friends with whom the “open door/open futon/bed” policy includes longer stays.

He was really young, at the peak of his self destructive phase that he’s publicly apologized for and distanced himself from. He was barely out of a traumatic childhood. Obviously he doesn’t have any deep seated nazi ties, it was poorly conceived shock-value for a party.

There is shady evidence that she did. He wasn’t wearing a life preserver and didn’t wear a wet suit. Survivability without those is limited. If he wasn’t in excellent physical shape he might have had only a few minutes before he’s too cold from hypothermia to swim. The police found the drain plug, apparently removed…

What a charming way to refer to another human being.