The pay is better and usually subject to less bureaucratic bullshit. My nominally Catholic girlfriend worked for a Catholic school in Chicago and really liked it. However, she was reprimanded and asked for an explanation when it was discovered (**cough** informant**cough**) that we were co-habitating while unmarried.…

Maybe they (foolishly) think that the church should practice what they preach and include them, an opinion which is shared by a significant and ever-growing number of those devout followers. This is how those kinds of change happen. A beloved gay teacher is fired for being gay, some parishioners protest, and the…

That Pence shit, thought... why fucking go? Is his official job to go to sporting events and get pissed off?

As a broken foot haver, I’m with you.

How are we defining kitten heel, here? If by kitten heel you mean low heel, you’re wrong. They look fine and are actually wearable for those of us with small feet who are practically en pointe in the towering monstrosities of the double-oh’s. If by kitten heels, you mean mini stilettos that are inexplicably an inch in…

I love kitten heels. Cute and feminine but highly unlikely to make me trip like stilettos do.

I personally try to not delve into the reasons WHY these women wear hijabs, and instead try to focus on the fact that they are CHOOSING (even if that may be because of family or cultural pressures) to wear them.

This is about a teenage girl’s rape and murder. It really isn’t necessary to make it into some bullshit “black on black” issue.

This is tragic. But also, why do any men think “it was consensual” is a legitimate response to sex with a minor? I wish that men would understand that there is no such thing as consensual sex with a minor, ever. You are always raping a child.

If he was a white person, he/she would be called a competitor but since it’s a black person, they’re being bitter and shit Thoughts & Blessings

I am not in favor of banning hijabs or otherwise limiting people’s practice of religion or their dress. Though you have to wonder a bit about the intellectual consistency of a website that in back to back articles mocks Canadian figure skating for clutching pearls about a crotch to the face in competition, then…

I’d agree. I’m regular Jewish, and the majority of us (reform and conservative Jews) find Orthodox Judaism’s treatment of women to be misogynistic and anachronistic at best, repulsive and disgusting at worst. Although Orthodox Jewish women don’t wear hijabs, they are required to cover all of their limbs at all times…

Seriously. If you’re going to shoot it down then own it. Explain exactly what the problem is. Use all your words. No hemming and hawing. Say. what. you. mean.

It is more harmful than turbans and other religious garb. Its origins in the Quran stem from the belief that women are responsible for mens behavior/desires and that a woman who is uncovered deserves poor treatment and harassment. You couldn’t make a more misogynistic tradition in a lab.

I think that the current feminist trend of fawning over hijabs is the product of some “enemy of my enemy” logic. The RWNJs hate Muslims, and since they hate all things good, Muslims must be good, even when they aren’t. Any religion or sect that tells women they have to cover themselves so they don’t seduce the…

Their religion and the men who follow it literally dictate the women cover themselves up.

Mixed feelings...love inclusion/ still feel that women wearing a hijab is the product of misogyny.

But I’m sure at Christ the King High School they’d have no problem with Pius X.

The knee jerk reaction to Malcom X as a big bad black man is indicative of how successful their smear campaigns are against our leaders. And the same can be said about the taming of Dr. King as well — in both extremes we see the standing examples of how we’re grouped and categorized. Are you a Malcolm or a Martin?…

Good for you. I find the insistence that victims of every kind of crime forgive “for themselves,” and usually asap, such bullshit. It is one more burden to put on people who don’t need any more. This idea that the only options are forgiveness or being eaten up inside thinking about the person who wronged you for the…