Presumably that’s why the cardboard fetus was created in the first place, but further humanizing it and murdering it with a shotgun isn’t going to get anyone to join you.

It’s really annoying. I’ve been totally in sync with the idea that the left wing of the party has legitimate criticisms of the mainstream, but Splinter (and their writers on twitter) has recently gone into this mode of taking things out of context and being like “lol dems”. It’s making me wonder if the moderates have…

Some things never change...

Whenever an industry tells me what the next big thing is I roll my eyes because people determine what the next big thing is not industries. If they go through with this it will hurt a lot of gamers where stable and affordable unlimited internet is not available.  Just three years ago it was virtually impossible to…

Bitter expedients. Bitter cretin. Papa John.

some dipshiat in marketing really screwed the pooch this time.

About a decade ago, a close family friend, a woman that was basically an aunt to me, died. I was so pissed at her, because she had diabetes and consistently refused to take her medication. This was a problem that had gone on for years, and we watched her health fail needlessly. I wasn’t alone either. My parents and…

As a long-time nurse I can tell you the mother’s reaction is very common.  There’s a lot of anger involved in the grief over a death like this (because it was so totally preventable), and the person grieving cannot begin to face that they are angry at the person who died.  So they turn that anger onto something else. …

My heart goes out to this woman, and I know she is just looking for a way to cope with losing her kid and she just needs someone to blame, but this isn’t a packaging issue it is a not paying attention issue. There is no way to solve that.

There have been studies that show that there is a 1-2% chance of allergies like hay fever in farming families vs. ~12% in non-farming families. I think early exposure to certain things (what exactly they aren’t sure yet) lowers the risk of developing allergies. And kids aren’t being exposed to those things as much…

Side Note: When did this whole “Peanuts: Genocide Legume” thing start?

It’s not like I’m dancing on the girl’s grave, but by 15, you have to take some personal responsibility.  I ALSO understand how a mother who lost a child would rather take up a (perfectly fine) crusade rather than think “man, Madysyn sure fucked up”.

Even if it wasn’t prominent, if I had a peanut allergy, I would always look for that tiny print that says how the product was processed using equipment that is also used to process peanuts.

Very valid points. All I’ll add is that I’ve never really experienced cornrows to be an inappropriate hairstyle for employees, and I work at a bank. We have some very high up managers, branch managers, bankers and tellers who wear cornrows and I’ve never even thought that this could have been an issue at some point,…

I struggle with it as well precisely because of articles like this. Honestly, it sounds like Kim K is coming at this with a very respectful and sincere admiration for a hairstyle. I fail to see how this is a bad thing, in fact, it just reminds me of segregation. 

That’s understandable, but I don’t see how that justifies telling her that she shouldn’t wear them.

But she’s not wearing it at work....it’s a completely different situation. Celebrities are allowed to wear a lot of things that would get me fired or told to go home and change. Not to mention I have a hard time telling someone who is married to a black man and has bi-racial children that she’s being tone-deaf. What…

I do as well. For example, I love to belly dance, but worry, as a white woman, that it’s cultural appropriation if I were to pursue learning the various dances, and wanted to perform as part of a dance troupe (not that I’d ever be good enough for that!) 

No, that seems like an entirely reasonable take. It seems antithetical to a diverse society.

Am I the only person who struggles with cultural appropriation uproar? I thought different cultures mixing and borrowing from each other was the point of living in a diverse society. Is it reasonable to assume that people of different cultures living together would wall off the ability of their culture being used by…