... I know, but the person I was responding to was basically saying we should make a PRACTICE out of denying boarding to pregnant women even with valid visas, which is where it goes into not so great territory. You don’t have to agree with me, but there is no way that even that as an ‘unofficial’ policy would end well…

I’m not talking about those scenarios though. I’m talking about if you take a general “Sorry pregnant women from other countries you can’t come here cause you MIGHT be here just to give birth!” approach, and then you deny the visas of women who, oh I don’t know, want to visit a dying family member, or require a…

They ADVISE, they don’t refuse. “Being pregnant” is not a valid reason to deny someone boarding. They have no way of knowing how far along the woman is, what her health is, etc. So if a pregnant woman needs to get on a plane for whatever reason, it’s not the boarding agent or the customs official’s job to determine…

That veers dangerously close to discrimination though, and can you imaging the backlash that would happen if “US Refuses To Honor Visas of Pregnant Women” became a headline?

I don't read it because I associate it with Roxane Gay, and for some reason she bugs the shit out of me. Ah well.

Nope, they have no explanation either.

Other reports included that the researchers were able control the number of holes in the cheese by varying the amount of hay dust that was added at the beginning of the process. They watched bubble formation using a CT scanner. There was one suggestion that the hay particles act like nucleation sites, but no mention…

I believe that there is a high chance that you are correct. I thought about the gas coming from the hay being broke down, but also have a theory about the gas coming from bacteria in the cheese and the hay just being an impurity that the bubbles form around. (similar to how impurities can increase cavitation in…

I went to the Guardian article, and the actual scientific paper is not linked there either, but I would guess that the holes are a combination of the hay particles and the previous CO2 theory. The gas inside of the holes still had/has to come from somewhere.

We were all little people once upon a time, and I guarantee you inconvenienced more than one member of society when you were a baby. So consider it payback time, stop being entirely self involved, and make yourself a more helpful part of a *community.* I would say if you don’t want to be slightly inconvenienced by…

When my kids look like they’re about to puke on a flight, I usually aim for folks like you then pretend it’s an accident. Thanks for being a target, my fellow parents and I truly appreciate it! I promise I will keep them in my seat (they have great range).

The beauty myth, capitalist consumption and its cousin exploitation, are not removed from those issues. It's valid to point out the dissonance.

As a certified Non-Hugger, let this mark the one and only time I have ever sided with Ann Coulter.

i think that question in itself is a dead end and a huge distraction

Oh good lord. I am so fucking tired of ‘this conversation is not for you and you have no stake in it’. If you ignore issues you’re not an ally. If you comment on issues you’re overstepping some invisible boundary. If you ask questions about issues you’re a shit-stirring misogynist rape-apologist, even if the issue is…

Believe it or not, what you give a crap about is not the standard by which society makes its rules. Parents are free to bring children on planes. You are equally free to throw tantrums about it because you just can’t deal with the fact that the entire world does not magically rearrange itself solely for your comfort…

Ugggghhhhhh... your comment is bringing out the WORST in people and its seriously bumming me out RN.....

Nobody likes to be called out on their hypocrisy. All the people who say I can take part of it (a magazine) and leave out what I don’t like tend to forget that their money paid for the whole magazine, not just the article they liked. In other words, they paid for the perpetuation of the problem whether they thought…

This is something that baffles me as a bit of an outsider (disclosure: am man) - I got into a minor debate with someone on here a while back when I claimed that it’s difficult to call yourself a feminist and at the same time avidly consume fashion mags that exist to shame women into buying product. Another poster…