To slightly paraphrase Diana Vreeland: "Prettiness is not a rent women pay for occupying a space marked female." I don't know how we can make that true, but I guess it's worth memorizing and saying to people in relevant situations. Which happen, like, twelve times a day.

My co-worker told a young woman to smile about a week ago and I blew a gasket. He explained that it was such a beautiful day she should be smiling. I asked him is he also tells 6'5 biker men to smile too because it's so beautiful outside. And then told him to not do that anymore as she is not there for his viewing…

Ain't that always the way tho.

Attention, naysayers! Allow me to submit for your shutting-the-fuck-up now, Hottentot Venus. Educate yourself because I no longer have the patience.

Just cause fundies are nuts too doesn't mean Catholics aren't Christian.

No, of course not.

Nope, but you should still view her as a person worthy of respect.

Please read some of my posts in this thread about the 3 fairies in sleeping beauty. The Disney version is NOT about female helplessness. Aurora is a cypher, but so are all of the males. Disney's Sleeping Beauty is about the only characters with personalities- the 3 fairies, and Maleficent. These are not helpless…

Calm down guys. He thought he was Jewish in the 2nd grade!

Your distaste for the children you teach, whether you really left engineering because you chose to or because you fell back on teaching, should make you think about doing something else. If you despise the people you work around as much in real life as you do in this thread you have no business teaching them. And…

"I'm 70% confident that the only reason the school is enforcing these rules now is because they want to remind the students that school is still in session..."

you are the deterioration of public schools.

"deterioration of the American public school educational system"? But you were blaming the kids, not the educational system... Fight the system, not the kids. These schools are garbage oppression-training systems, and nothing more.

I'm not condoning the riot but the school administration picked a shitty time to do this. How are you going to suspend 170 students at the end of the school year and expect people to react positively?

If this is your honest, educated opinion maybe teaching isn't for you.

No. Those are unacceptable, unprofessional things for a boss to do. I really hope the majority of bosses are not like that. None of the bosses I have had come even close to that.

The worst part of this entire shitfest of an article is at the end, when the author bemoans just how oh-so-unbearably unimportant they'd feel if they weren't connected to a celebrity in some way. Like, how fucking weak must your sense of self be to feel that way? And are we seriously supposed to feel sorry for this…

So quit.

Do you know how to change a car battery? I just learned how.

I have known quite a few cats with CH and they all live wonderful, happy lives. They walk a little funny and sometimes need to be in a place without stairs or need a special litter box, but they all are super sweet kitties who get around well — just different.