You have a reading comprehension problem. She literally stated that people she talks to will say these things to her. She isn’t talking about how feminist posts indirectly make her angry. She’s referring to people who get pissy when they ask the “Where do you work?” question and get “I’m a homemaker.” response.

I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately, because I feel like “angry” is my default underlying emotion, and I know it’s directly related to my feminism. I look around me and I wonder how it is women haven’t burned everything to the ground long before now. I mean, we are half of the population, more or less. How is…

Fuck tone policing.

As I human, I felt I had reached nearly total equality in the workplace in the early 1980s, granted, I was just starting out...and then came Reagan. It was like he turned all the progress made on behalf of women over the last 3o years into dust. And we’ve been fighting to regain lost ground ever since...

This. I’m an angry feminist. But I think our generation of women is straight-up weaker. If that pisses someone off - good. Unlike the first feminists and those after, we’ve totally accepted the stereotypes about us. Most of us strive to be feminine (shave our legs, wear makeup, heels, etc etc), because we don’t want…

Yeah, this is always the “tone” argument. If you were just nicer, maybe we’d respect you. I bring this up whenever someone tells me to “calm down” when I’m talking about feminism, and more than not, I’m speaking at the same volume as the men do during their arguments and discussions. But the perception is that I’m…

I will never understand how feminists can *not* be angry. This anger that permeates feminism is absolutely justified, and since women are currently losing ground and gains are being unmade, I would expect the least we can do is understand why. At which point does being a second-class citizen become something we should…

Just because it doesn’t make sense to you doesn’t mean it isn’t real. There are many victims of rape who have their rapists’ babies. Does it mean that their assault was any less real just because someone comes along and says “Oh, I would definition have an abortion, I think it’s fishy that she wouldn’t”.

Neither you…

I’m no fan of his embryo antics, but I think it’s wrong to just dismiss an abuse survivor outright. I’m in the camp of believing victims until I have strong evidence otherwise.

He’s making a case (however implausible) for duress, which is a defense that could invalidate an otherwise valid contract. It’s a pretty high bar to get a contract set aside because of duress — hence the claims of physical abuse during the actual process of signing.

When I was a bank teller many years ago, my super sweet and affable co-worker (let’s call him John) had an absolute meltdown at one of our regular business customers - screaming, cursing, the works. The week prior, John’s brother had been killed by a drunk driver. I think John felt he was okay to work and just snapped…

I saw something like this happen in a local Radio Shack store once. A customer was very politely asking some questions about a return of a defective item. He was not at all confrontational, and the manager lost it on him, she was used very racist language and eventually threatened the customer with calling the police…

Thank you! Years of customers holding up the line while looking at their phone, not listening and holding up the line. Employees hate them, other customers hate them. But you still can’t lose your cool. The Puertorican side of me is absolutely loving Melissa.

I feel you too, and in the peak periods the adrenaline can really flow while you’re trying to micromanage 20 different orders and I felt like I was close to snapping at times too. That said, if I ever did snap in this fashion without a probable cause I probably shouldn’t be allowed to keep the job.

As a former barista from forever ago (not at Starbucks), I can feel the months or years of people not listening to her, building up into this one fit of rage. I felt like I was going to snap a lot. Coffee customers are fucking assholes.

I think the guy is trying to mansplain why Melissa is so upset. Honestly, that might’ve been my least favorite part of the whole video.

I’ve always hated crowded coffee shops that call out people’s names (often after they’ve written them down wrong) and then get mad when you don’t immediately hear them. It feels shitty to have the failings of a disorganized system be blamed on you.

When I was a freshman in college, my friend had Pauly Shore’s number, because he’d hit on her several years prior in a similarly creepy way. The creepiest part was that she was 16 at the time, which he was fully aware of. We’d play “Get drunk and call Pauly” quite often.

If it’s any consolation, he hit on my friend in college and I stole his cell-phone number from her. I pretended to be her and led him on every time he was back in Boston, until I finally got him to show up at the Hotel Commonwealth and cut communication entirely. He got angry and vulgar; if Bob Saget thinks you’re a…

As much as I always enjoy these “Worst Celebrity Encounters” stories, I’d like to lobby once more for a “Best Celebrity Encounters” post (unless I’ve missed one in the past). I want my best impressions of Ellie Kemper, Bill Walton, John Waters, and Amy Poehler to be confirmed, please and thank you.