If the surgery was performed for entirely cosmetic reasons, without their ability to object or assess the medical need for themselves, that would definitely be a mutilation. Performing lifesaving surgery on an injured, unconscious patient doesn't meet that definition and therefore is not mutilation.

That's actually not accurate. The scientific evidence for these "benefits" basically vanishes on inspection; the studies are based on African adults who opt for the procedure (not on infants), and don't control for the months-long period of sexual abstinence that happens when you basically have a piece of your dick…

"Mutilation" is the accurate term for the results of surgical assault on an unwilling victim. If you opted for circumcision, you're not mutilated (congrats.) But if it happened to you as an infant, you're technically (and accurately) the victim of a mutilation. How you deal with that is on you.

Do you give a shit about what rando-the-dumb-chick thinks? Probably not.

So shaming is bad, but also affirmation is bad. Got it!

Which of the two body types do Internet commenters and bloggers freely and frequently say they do not want to be seated next to on an airplane, a train, or a bus?

Sigh... shorter version: by your own admission you're illegally exploiting your interns, and I say that only to warn you that you're opening your company up to suit by doing so.

My husband works at a non-profit, and they've paid their interns before but had to switch to offering non-paid internships because they were low on funds after a big ballot initiative.

But again "hours limitations" isn't the standard; the standard is that you can't have an unpaid intern produce valuable work product, regardless of how many or how few hours they work. The "work product" of an unpaid intern can't legally be something that is valuable to your company - because if it is valuable, you're…

Internships aren't a way to have work done without having to pay for it. Being a "non-profit" doesn't mean you get to take advantage of people.

That's not the standard.

If your interns do work you couldn't get done otherwise, then you're violating the terms of an unpaid internship and have opened yourself to a suit for back wages (which you do, in fact, owe them.)

On the other hand, however, there are things one cannot learn in school: how to conduct yourself in an office, how to navigate hierarchies and cubicle politics, how big ideas go from conceptual meetings to development and production.

The gunk was soap scum. Don't use soap flakes.

I use Notability on the iPad to annotate and highlight PDF journal articles, and Google Drive forms the transport layer between looking them up on my desktop web browser and pulling them into Notability on the iPad. Honestly, I'd rather use Evernote, but Google Drive was what I've got (unless Evernote has a WebDAV API…

But Paris has a population density lower than that of the state of Florida taken as a whole.

This is pretty neat. I have a custom HUD I built for my bike helmet that uses similar principles. OLED displays are pretty cheap (relatively) and the fact that the pixels are self-illuminating over a non-illuminated background make them perfect for optical superposition. The optics are always the challenge, but I…

Sure, probably not ones in academia, but so what? Academia isn't the sole employer of PhD's. In particular, one cannot earn a PhD without having done a very great deal of close (frequently difficult) reading and persuasive writing, both of which are highly valuable skills.

The second sign of cognitive dissonance is looking for some basis by which the skeptic can be utterly disregarded. You're not ready to hear a dissenting perspective, I guess.

And before you get all "periods are in good health", which is true, for many women, myself included, periods can be painful, cause dizziness, fever, fainting and vomiting. Just because these things may not be happening to you, does not mean they are not happening to other women.