Is this actually commonplace? My best friend is in med school and for stuff like this (basically anything involving genitalia men or women) they have paid volunteers. Like people who literally get paid to be test subjects for them.

Maybe the issue wasn't that you were planning to write a rape scene, but that the only purpose for your rape scene was to motivate a male character. It's not the rape scene that's the problem. It's the fact that you, the author, should have more respect for your characters than to simply make them objects that you use…

My cat wakes me up with the sounds of her profound existential anxiety.

This actually happened to someone I know. If it’s like her case, it’s a combo of

If a dude can somehow get 55k to make potato salad... I don’t see why a woman shouldn’t get the same amount for having a baby.

...a photo of a woman with a black eye, and the tagline, “Domestic violence. Because sometimes, you have to tell her more than once.”

If they’re blurring out all the boobs, why can I still see all the hosts’ faces?

Jimmy Carter, duh, I love peanuts and farming

I had a coworker at my last job who was routinely furious that, even though I was fat and she wasn’t, I still allowed myself to enjoy food while she subsisted in Lean Cuisine and fat-free yogurt. It made her SO angry, and she just couldn’t shut up about it—she’d hover around my cubicle at lunch time and make comments…

Let me tell you about what life is like as a fat sexworker. My job involves sharing photos of myself as a strong, sexy, sexual woman, in varying degrees of undress. It involves me setting a figure - a not inexpensive one, either - on what I feel access to my body is worth.

This, for a myriad of reasons, makes some men…

I think a lot of people do equate skinniness with happiness. They work and suffer and try and obsess so that they can get to a size or weight where they think ‘happiness’ lives. And some of them manage to do that. So they think they’ve ‘earned’ their happiness. They ‘earned’ that boyfriend (who would dump them in a…

While it remains to be seen how closely Lorne Michaels would be following Canadian television these days, the fact remains that This Hour Has 22 Minutes is not an obscure comedy show on some obscure cable channel. It’s a long-running CBC programme that, love it or leave it — Conservatives tend to loathe it — is a…

Yeah, I watched both and they’re super similar (SNL’s is just three minutes longer and three minutes unfunnier). But it’s weird that Jezebel didn’t link back to the article it wrote on this yesterday. They always link back.

I will never understand why people hate on other people's happiness. I guess that's why I'm not a troll.

This is a really weird power dynamic, and I have to agree that it is super inappropriate. That being said, the student is an adult. Asking mom for support and advice is fine, but she needs to make the complaint herself.

Congrats! You found the only four categories on the planet in which women have it “easier”!

does this guy ever go out and have fun?

Yea I totally agree. How can you schedule children like that? I mean, don't they have events, practices, projects etc that he should be a part of? I totally feel bad for his wife.

I live by the philosophy of “let’s see what coupons Dominos has today.”

I was about 12 when I’d decided I was going to be a Paleontologist (I’m not, btw, but that’s not the point.)