I can imagine this: people who fall in love often speak of instant recognition that they have with their potential partner. With a genetic family member, I imagine that there is a similar instant recognition that the author describes. We have no model for this in a platonic fashion and so, perhaps, the circuits get…

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Yeah, I think the generational thing might be the main influencer here. I had a therapist who told me my tattoos were a symbol of "low self-esteem," which — besides being indicative of the fact that we were in Texas and that she was bad at her job — was, I believe, a viewpoint tied to her age.

This is disturbing to me. But it's valuable because it's a story and a perspective that we rarely encounter.

This is some brave shit.

AHEM, I should add that Carmon's book is available for pre-order here: http://www.amazon.com/Notorious-R-B-…

The prohibition against tattoos is much more generational than anything, and RBG isn't observant, I don't think. This is more about an 81-year-old woman's total bafflement with the weird stuff we emblazon on ourselves.

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Some guy at a party once tried to tell us all that merpeople were real because he saw a documentary about it. When we IMDBed his documentary and it was clearly labeled a mockumentary, he scoffed, "IMDB is no more reliable than Wikipedia." True story.

there's a good chance you'll be swirling secretions from a beaver's anal glands around in your mouth.

Thank you, this is awesome. You don't need to be a scientist to know what she's saying is crap, just a good baloney detector and some critical thinking skills.

"there is no acceptable level of any chemical to ingest, ever"

Where is her long essay about this, where she really makes a case? She has no case. So she tweets. (...) No case for why formulaic fiction ought to be reviewed in the New York Times.

Years ago, at the law firm where I work, HR circulated an email asking the (female) secretaries to clean the ladies' bathroom.

Yeah but here's the thing - when women can't obtain leadership positions in high powered white collared jobs and they continue to be dominated by 100% men, then no women are in positions of power to drive change and it hurts all of us. Sure, it's not as sad - but it's real and it affects all women.

Once, at a company where I was the only woman, I got in the habit of making the 1st pot of coffee because I was always the first one in. The CPO said to me one day, 'I'm glad you make the coffee, it tastes better when a woman makes it.' I bought my coffee on the way in from then on and never brewed another pot.

The consulting firm I work at used to have a mentoring program for women (i.e., senior female employees mentoring junior female employees), which died a quiet death. I had to explain to my own (male) boss why none of "us women" thought it was fair that we were required to allocate hours to mentoring/being mentored. At…

I really like this series because the issues reflect the experiences I have, as a highly-educated woman in a white collar profession. No, it's not going to apply to service workers. It can't. But not all women, obviously, have lower-paying service jobs or lack the ability to speak out for themselves and their roles in…

I would have let it slip into chaos.

I'm the only woman at my firm in a non administrative capacity out about 35 and - you know what - I'm having a really fucking crappy week of microagressions I want to SCREAM. These are good guys with good hearts but the microagressions, little comments, expectations, etc are just too much some days. There is something…