I hate all pad/tampon adverts that do not depict the truth about periods...

Because all of my friends who’ve had one have said the insertion was the singularly most painful experience of their lives, even the friend who had a back injury that got so bad she needed prednisone injected into her spine? Oh, and because all of them have had their period cramps get an order of magnitude worse. Oh,…

Almost all women are appropriate candidates...unless you talk to a woman with PID or similar lady parts issues. It's cool that these work, but the 9 months I had mine were basically the most painful 9 months of my life.

I have not seen combat, but I can assure you no one is worried about diversity when fighting. They are worried about not dying and protecting those around them. If a female is capable of picking me up and throwing me on her shoulders, and running 100 yards with me, then I would not care if she were in combat. But a…

Except the majority of combat happens within 50 yards... there is a good chance someone is getting shot and you’re going to need that disposable mule to get him to cover.

As a person, I am all for equality. Women and men should absolutely be treated the same, paid the same, etc... But as a Marine, there is absolutely no room for women in combat. I have never seen combat, but if I were to see it with a female Marine, most of them would terrify me.

Yeah fuck you for not letting me bring my child into an inappropriate workplace environment! Fuck you for not agreeing with me!

Yeah I don’t get that either. That’s like bringing a chef with you into your kitchen but insisting on doing the cooking yourself. Odd choice, and frankly seems kinda silly to me.

Who cares? I was commenting on a specific person and a specific situation. The vast majority of my friends are scientists and work in labs—they are also people who are having kids later and seem to think their children should be able to go everywhere with them.

No, I was saying the sitter could have been with the baby outside of the meeting space—meaning, onsite, but in a different room than the meeting itself.

I’m sorry, but unless you’re paying that student as a babysitter (and actually, a couple of my grad school friends made a bundle as the go-to babysitters for faculty), that’s inappropriate. Profs and adjunct profs have a power dynamic with students, and it would not be appropriate to ask a student you are grading or…

If the baby has already disrupted the event prior to its’ removal, it’s too late. Given that infants are unpredictable around unfamiliar environments, it’s a reasonable expectation.

So if I don't have children (for whatever reason: medical, personal preference) I should pay for my co-workers child care costs if it's inappropriate for them to bring their children to work? Is that what you're saying?

Agreed :) My dad did his part in raising my brother and I. He would get us roughly half the time when we were sick, sometimes he took us to work if there was a scheduling conflict. He and my mom have a pretty solid equal partnership in terms of responsibilities. When my mom decided to stay home with me in my early…

I can tell you place of work is not one that requires high concentration. I hope when you need surgery that all the nurses bring their little bundles of noisy germs right on in to the ER. Or your pilot is changing a poopy diaper. Or what about people who work in areas of highest security clearances? Or dangerous…

They do, because they think they’re special and the rules don’t apply to them.

AGREE, in that situation I would certainly leave my baby at home with zero second guessing about the problems of society. I was waiting for the punchline at the end of this article where the author realized how inappropriate it was to bring her baby. I’m a working mother myself - and fully support all moms AND dads…

In this instance I can be certain she is not bringing them to work because she has no one to watch them. She has not one, not two, not three, nannies. I know, because she loves to talk about how much she pays them and how she could not imagine having to raise children without spending less than $250,000 a year. She…

But the “fussing” (and likely more than that, I’m guessing) is still distracting. Using a babysitter does not mean Republicans have confiscated your uterus. It's just courtesy.

That was my biggest thing. Industry events in my field can run $700+ a day for a no frills ticket that literally only includes admissions to the daytime events, no food, no networking events after, etc. I pretty much have to pay for these things out of pocket if I want to go, so needless to say, I don’t go to many. I…