No, that’s segregation. Seriously, these people are being ironically bigoted.

Precisely my thoughts. There’s cultural appropriation but there’s also cultural exchange and the latter is amazing and beneficial for everyone. I think yoga, in general, is an example of the latter.

Have we reached a point where all cultural sharing is off limits? That seems so... stagnant.

The thing that really boils my blood about all this hateful talk is that no big news organizations are calling them out in this shit. No one on CNN is saying it’s hate speech. There are no articles at the New York Times going “hey, wait a minute, let’s not re-live 1933-1945”. Why are they being silent? I don’t get it.…

They were afraid the girls would take all the leadership positions? I know this is being filtered through the mother of one of the “unicorns” so there may be some bias coloring her quote....but what does that say about the boys already there if they felt the girls would take over immediately?

here is my two cents nobody asked for: Not quite sure why the Unicorns can’t just form their own Girl Scout troop and do outdoor stuff with girls their own age. The whole point of these organizations is to develop skills and friendships among a gender-specific peer group. If you don’t want to participate according to…

Girl Scout troop activities are generally troop-driven and pretty flexible, so it seems like it would make more sense for them to either request some changes in the activities that their old troop does, or to start their own Girl Scout troop with more of a focus on outdoor activities.

I’m obese, as are a few other women in my office. The GM of my company sees fit to comment on my lunches and all the lunches of the women in the office. All. The. Time. Telling us how proud he is of us when he sees us with a salad, and lecturing us when he sees us with anything else.

During my time at Trader Joes, they would occasionally hire teenagers who worked less hours and had some restrictions on what they could do for work. One of these teenagers was a very attractive young woman. One day, one of my co-workers told me he knew her 18th birthday was coming up later that month and was planning…

She was never at fault, except in being polite to someone who thought he could make himself bigger, more special, by reducing her to a sexual object, thereby denying her any sense of self beyond her gender. He is a giant piece of shit.

My first long-term job in an 80% male department in a huge bank, I had to put up with a (admittedly attractive) boss that would subtly flirt with me for 4 years. Looking back, I’m even wondering if his thing for me wasn’t what got me hired. He was always trying to get hugs, coming to my cubicle section when I worked…

I guess I’m lucky in that my superior waited until I quit to even let me know he was interested in me. I saw other managers at that same job flirt openly with employees, and sometimes it led to really uncomfortable situations. It was a fairly casual workplace, a fast food restaurant, but there was still a…

Seconded. My grandmother’s doctor is one of those “just give them a pill” doctors (which I hate, but she won’t leave him). He prescribed her something that would have seriously contraindicated one of her maintenance meds. The pharmacist noticed, and got the doctor to prescribe something else. I shudder to think what…

Seriously, I’ve had doctors fuck around with medication because “they know better” that would have caused serious longterm issues (like death) if not for a pharmacist speaking up.

“I read these stories on your blog almost every day, and I have to say that the way healthcare is handled in the US frightens the life out of me.”

I read these stories on your blog almost every day, and I have to say that the way healthcare is handled in the US frightens the life out of me.

This may be very unpopular here but I really don’t feel that birth control pills are safe to give OTC or by pharmacists. Different women need different doses for various reasons and I worry that without being under a doctors care that this could have a negative impact on womens health. I believe it should absolutely…

For what it’s worth, I’ve found that many pharmacists are more up to speed on drug interactions, new medicines, and -don’t tell doctors this- are pretty decent primary care professionals. I live in an area that has a shortage of doctors, and people use the local pharmacist as much as their GPs.

Holy shit, does he know that most people come here FOR the comments? That there’s a shit-ton of lurkers interested in reading the comments?