Evaluating professors’ professional performances is nothing like this, which invites people to rate you as a human being. I actually think the comparison with hotornot is more apt, since both are vile. At least hotornot doesn’t pretend to be about love and positivity.

Nope. Not everyone thinks that deep down. Deep down I find this terrifying and ugly and stupid.

People get really attached to their ideas, but I tend to agree with you; doubling down on this in such a tone-deaf way sort of lends credibility to the hoax theory.

I joked upstream that the only people who would be bored enough to make an issue out of this were other people watching the same boring baseball game.

I think I have to agree with ben about the definition of humanism, and I think you may have stepped on it a bit in your earlier comments. But as a result I don’t think he could hear what you were saying about men setting the rules and conditions for this discourse. I don’t mean to split the difference between…

I can’t even believe the base wage is that low. Where is that? I live in Ontario and people don’t necessarily tip 20%, so I guess it must be different, but I would take home a $70 paycheque (after EI and income tax deductions) in addition to $40 to $100 cash (my half of my tips) after an 8 hour shift. We did have to…

I think you guys disagree in a much smaller way than benjaminallover realizes. In addition to reading your commentary on humanism more critically than you intended, he or she is putting the agency for misusing the term humanism squarely on Meryl, while you’re positioning that in a larger context of a sexist industry…

That’s some bullshit. What a stupid way to organize incentives for your workers.

He represents some, and those people support Davis.

Don’t talk to your elders like that! I am 35. I do not take selfies. I find it off-putting. But you need to calm down; this is just a different manifestation of the self-absorption young people have always exhibited.

I worked at a restaurant that required servers to give 50% of their tips to the kitchen staff. The reason that worked is because the restaurant elected to pay servers the same wage as kitchen staff, well above industry standard minimum wage for tipped staff. We got $12/hour plus half our tips, so it was very fair. If…

Maybe other people who were bored out of their trees because they were also at the baseball game, but that’s understandable.

I hate golf, but I find that it helps me sleep. It makes for a comforting background noise; it reminds me of Sunday afternoons at my grandparent’s house.

In my experience, a baseball game is something happening in the background while you drink overpriced beer and hang out with your dad.

Oh that’s the “controversy”? That people weren’t paying sufficient attention to a baseball game? Right, because it all happens so fast, lol. I couldn’t figure out why this was a story, and I’m still kind of confused.

It’s day in and day out as well; my sister is younger than me but she has seen a lot more because of her job. It takes a toll on people.

Also, a distinct lack of Mountain Dew.

My sister is an ER nurse, so my heart goes out to the staff who have to deal with the aftermath of these shootings. It is traumatic for them too.

Dirty dishwater works the best.

I think you’re exactly right.