As someone who has made mistakes on the internet, I admit having trouble understanding why she deserves to lose her job for her insensitivity. Did it get in the way of her productivity? Is she really a shitty worker, or just a shitty person? If all shitty people who were also not-shitty workers were fired on the…

I'd like to personally let you know that I've thrown myself into STEM ever since I discovered science was a thing and that I could do it. When someone asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I never hesitated to declare "scientist" (or an occupation within). Currently I'm doing behavioral neuroscience, but in…

I cringe every time my sister brings up that one time some "gypsies" threw babies at her to steal her purse. Gypsy this, gypsy that, gypsies whatever they can get their grubby hands on, gypsies are the ones that make Southern Italy horrible. She says these things because when she travelled Europe that's all everyone…

My boyfriend and I frequently make jokes about having finally achieved this, after a terrible stranded-in-Hong-Kong-during-typhoon-season-with-bad-food adventure:

I remember once when I was terribly ill (and it showed on my face), I was walking along the streets of Chengdu with my boyfriend while terrible drivers sped illegally past me. I thought to myself, "If they hit me, what would they think? Probably something like, 'well, she wasn't even that pretty, anyway.'" My…

I went to a Hell House as a child. Even back then I was confused by just how completely illogical and unfounded they were. And this was when I was still Christian.

On the other hand, 1 in 4 people experience clinical depression. The number appears to be growing, too, due to our rapidly changing society. There is a frightening medicalization of feelings and emotions and stuff, but, it's important not to discount the possibility.

I smiled until 4:00 and then I cringed so hard. Please don't do that bow-y accent-y thing, there's just something so very distasteful about it.

I wasn't into makeup when we first dated, but after he got over the urge to wipe off my makeup once I did start using it (via "Oh, hang on, love, you've got a bit of a smudge on your cheek there, let me LICK MY THUMB TO WIPE IT OFF YOU"), my boyfriend's been 100% supportive and sweet about it. Although I suspect it's…

To be fair to the study, they do make a sound argument about the difference between social competence and social warmth, the real goal of their investigation. And also, they do discuss at length that this was about people's initial perception of others, and that it wasn't always the case once subjects got to inspect…

Not when you're British. Then you leave feeling vaguely disappointed and terrified of offending the hair stylist.