I expect she does talk to her husband, I’m not sure why you and Nader assume otherwise. Presumably, if she disagrees with him she has her reasons; telling her to go talk to her husband ignores that and undermines her own expertise since the assumption is that her husband knows her job better than she does. It’s not…

I would be uncomfortable and insulted if someone brought my husband into the conversation in the workplace. The wording seems crafted to insult her, and that is inappropriate. There is a way to disagree and dialogue in a professional setting, and this is not it.

I guess you see what you want to see. Do you think he would have said “go talk to your wife” if the genders had been reversed? I don’t think so.

Doesn’t matter. They give out a Nobel for economics every year. There are lots of Nobel-winning economists, but he specifically told her to go ask the one that is her husband. There is a whole long history of women not being allowed to do anything without the permission of their husbands. THAT is why this is a deeply…

It’s specifically because he told her to consult her husband that it’s patronizing.

Well, yeah. Everybody knows that.

“I don’t give much of a fuck about either side of the argument...”

Uhhh...yeah, there is hypocrisy if she would let a gay doctor treat her child, but won’t let a gay teacher teach him?

You honestly don’t see the difference between bakeries not baking cakes for gay people and Muslim women wanting to wear their religious attire at jobs? Here is a hint: One is discrimination, the other is not. You have to try a little with your false equivalencies. Also, where did you get the idea that this teacher was…

I think the comment about the doctors is a really good point, though, that the mother needs to consider. She needs to be reminded about the fact that the people around her may be gay, and that it’s naive of her to attempt to live in a gay-free bubble. And the fact that a gay person might save her child’s life is a…

So let me get this straight.

I don’t have a problem with a Muslim woman wearing a hijab to express her religious faith. I have a problem with a Muslim anyone objecting to working with someone based on their sexual orientation as an expression of their faith, because that is not the true meaning of faith. Religion is supposed to be about love.

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I break out bigger words and more obscure ideas. You are not smarter nor better educated than me, asshole!

Asking about pronouns is totally acceptable, to my understanding. Where it crosses into “yikes” territory is asking about what genitals a person has.

I had a lot of people disappoint me when my son died, and I heard this explanation often. People just don’t know what to say or do. But the thing is, that burden is on them. The person suffering a horrific loss is already coping with more than their fair share. You can look online for “things to say when someone’s…

thank you. for some reason i really need validation on this one. thank you.

You ARE right. She was a shitty friend in the time you needed her most. I get that some people don’t know how to deal or what to say or how to help, but that she didn’t even try? Pure bullshit. You ARE right and you should be mad. But I get that that doesn’t necessarily make ending the friendship hurt any less. I’m…