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I think Yoko Ono is living in Nightvale.

We are telling half our population that they need to present themselves in a way that is “Not distracting” and then we wonder why they won’t answer questions in class, don’t learn leadership, and underrate their talents.

As someone with long legs and a comparatively short torso, I’m going to have to hate you. Even the “modest” length dresses and skirts are too short on me.

...but there are ways for girls to wear neutral and feminine clothes while both being modest and proving independence and freedom of expression.

I’ve been out of the bakery job for four years and I still have nightmares about the Sunday post-church crowd.

I think there is a reasonable difference between the options available to a teenager and the options available to a grown son.

The cult of fertility is older than the human species. Just because we don’t make little clay sculptures of women with enormous chests anymore doesn’t mean we’ve become enlightened. We are just making the damned things out of plastic or silicon instead.

Sometimes the guys with 46 kids with 38 different mothers get their essential selfish assholeness pointed out. Or the ones happy to wait who are somehow torturing their wives by not knocking them up.

Amen! I’m another choose-not person. The you’ll-change-your-mind people amuse me. Like every parent hasn’t had a moment of “what was I thinking?!? I can’t be a parent!”

That’s the other ugly side of the coin. For those who manage to be cis-heterosexual, wealthy, appropriately aged and educated, in a stable relationship etc then they are automatically selfless when choosing to get pregnant. As though all those checkboxes mean that you are passing on your genes for some better higher…

Isn’t this basic sales theory? If you want someone to do something, you need them to envision it in their head first. Real Estate agents say things like “you’ll eat in this gorgeous little breakfast nook”, and car dealers say, “You can fit your golf clubs right here, and still have space for a six-pack.”

because her complaint was the last in a series and led to his firing.

I don’t know anything about gofundme, but I do know about getting help with vet bills. First talk to your vet and see if they have any lower cost options (sometimes there are good sam funds available, or you can trade answering phones or cleaning for part of the cost). Sometimes vet schools can offer a reduced surgery…

I think it’s reasonable to say that the significant other who did the cheating is at fault and not the person he cheated with. (The judge said that the mistress was not responsible, not that cheating did not occur - despite the headline)

And why did he get to see the names of the persons lodging complaints? I understand he might figure it out from context, but it does seem like a poor human resources decision to say, “here’s the woman whose complaint got you fired.”

Why is it such a bad thing that her mother is representing her? Parents who have skills or resources that can benefit their children tend to use those skills and resources to benefit their children — kinda the job description.

They’re going after her one way or another.

Any painting can be called a Picasso but that doesn’t mean that’s what it is. You may need a little more information to tell the difference, but that doesn’t mean that there isn’t a difference or that the difference isn’t important.

Purebred cats from a petstore are an incredibly bad idea. Not only are they likely mill born, they are unlikely to have necessary health tests, and may not even be the breed or breeds advertised. Also, petstores charge significantly more than show breeders and do not provide the same advice, support, health checks,…