There’s a recent report into Australia’s wage gap which found the problem is not women’s negotiating skills or willingness to ask for raises, it’s employers’ reaction to it. A man requesting a raise is seen as assertive, confident and go-getting...a woman is seen as demanding and difficult. Women were far more…

Anything less than 100% white would surpass my expectations, frankly.

When my kids were still living at home and we had a cat each, we had the Cat Rule. The Cat Rule stated that, if you wanted something (like a snack or the TV remote) but had a cat in your lap, another member of the household had to get that thing for you if requested. It did not count if you had grabbed the cat, it…

I’m from Western Australia, where this is going down. Two things in particular excite me...

Your logical fallacies are and Straw Man and False Equivalence!

“The president has a very unorthodox view on NATO defense spending,” a source told the Times. “The alliance is not a club with a membership fee...”

Obviously I can’t tell without reading the book, but...the main character is a prepubescent AMAB child who goes by a traditionally male name and wants to wear a dress. He’s most likely a cis boy of undetermined sexuality who just likes wearing dresses. That’s not “gayness” or “transgender”, that’s a little boy who is…

Apply the same rules as jury duty. Eligible citizens go into a hat and are drawn at random, with penalties if they fail to appear. It’s their civic duty, after all.

The MRAs will be torn, though. Do they go with “All women who claim to have been raped are lying”, or “Women will regret turning down us fine white men while they’re being gang-raped by black men”? Decisions, decisions...

Wow. Take away the repetitions and there’s virtually nothing. Just him repeating that he said he was going to win the election and did. Very statesman. Such president.

The law, SB17, allows students to express religious and political views in homework and class projects “free from discrimination or penalty,” distribute political and religious literature, and wear religious items and symbols.

It’s OK to criticise the religious beliefs of anyone who tries to impose those beliefs on others. It’s doubly OK when that person is being considered for an important political post.

Supersoakers filled with borax solution, human remains soaked in blood and machetes. Shouldn’t be too hard to get those past the Secret Service...

Oh my god, if we’re talking Supernatural, this is the Leviathan storyline!! OK, we need to start with the bone of a righteous mortal...

I’m assuming he meant that only slightly more than 50% of Americans voted for this horror, not a lot more than 50%, so you don’t have to avoid as many of your neighbors as you might think. I agree it’s very cold comfort indeed.

Even if your personal vote doesn’t matter...so what?? Living in a democracy and being able to cast your vote in free elections is a goddamn privilege denied to way too much of the world. There are people in other countries who have given their lives just trying to win the right to vote. There are others who literall…

Courtesy of the online comic Scandinavia and the World

I grew up on a dairy farm and drank unpasturised milk every day of my life until I left for boarding school at 13. I still drink it every opportunity I get, because it tastes fantastic. I am also a living testament to its lack of miraculous properties. I have not one, not two, but three autoimmune diseases. It…

“There has never been dishonesty, there has never been dishonesty like we’ve seen in this election.”

“Do it because you’ll get in trouble if you don’t” is a step on the path to developing a moral compass. “Do it because it’s the right thing to do” is the highest level, and one these dickbags have not attained. But this is better than nothing. The fact that everyone else is so horrified, may even lead to some…