Definitely. I'm sure they felt the girls brought this on themselves - there's a lot of victim blaming and cruel classism when people talk about working class (or unemployed) young people, especially women.

Seriously! They don't even make a real case for it in the actual document - just some implications from third party sources.

Especially since even the actual report says there's really little evidence that a fear of being perceived as racist impeded any of this - the EDL just seem to have heard "Asian" and ran with it. They're going to try really hard to derail this away from police negligence in issues of abuse of women and girls, and turn…

This is just absolutely horrifying the more I hear about it. The victim blaming and callousness of the police is unfortunately not that surprising, especially considering these were girls in a vulnerable position. I am also not surprised that the police are trying to blame "multicultural Britain" for not letting them…

I've never felt right about the "PMS doesn't exist" idea that comes around the internet feminist circles every so often, because I feel the hormonal changes acutely! It seems like what we want to say is "discounting women's emotions and feelings because PMS is terrible and demeaning" and it comes out "PMS is made up".…

During a holiday in college I became deliriously ill during the course of a flight to Berlin, and by the time I got off the plane and out of the airport I was completely disoriented and feverish. I had no idea how to get to my hostel and spoke zero German, and was just wandering around lost in the train station late…

I too liked the suit! Tan suits are nothing to be afraid of!

I think your comment is the best response to articles like this. Tanning is bad for you so embracing not tanning is good, but there's no need to act like we need some kind of Pasty Pride movement. :)

Seriously! She pretty much just makes shit up for the left-leaning anti-science crowd to get excited about. As soon as I saw the phrase "Monsanto milk" in this article I realized I wasn't actually getting legit info.

Oh I'm aware of the payment to TA, etc, funding and all! But there is a certain privilege to it, the ability to go to school for so many years before you are funded. Regardless of that though, I know I was over generalizing. I'm disappointed with my experiences in academia and can be both bitter and unfairly broad in…

That's absolutely true and fair - I know not all are mean/nuts. I think I'm generalizing from a bad university work experience unfairly. I'm doing graduate coursework at the moment and my instructors have been awesome there, so I was just being nasty/hyperbolic!

:( Ugh - you have my sympathy.

A lot of them do believe this. I don't really understand the need to try to flaunt your intelligence, especially since it seems like getting a Ph.D. mostly just reflects your ability to afford to not work for nearly a decade. I have a hard time seeing higher ed. as anything beyond flashy conspicuous consumption for…

Having also worked at a university, I can doubly verify that 50-75% sounds about right (if not a little low). I think the maladjusted professors are especially skilled at sniffing out the lowest person on the hierarchy of any workplace and laying into that person mercilessly.

I would bet the guy in the second story, the one from Asheville, is in academia. I've never had insane, angry, abusive customers like college professors. UGH. I love that story's chef.

Guys cat-calling me always scare me. In some situations I've found it's usually safe and diffusing to give them a no-teeth smile and keep walking (it doesn't feel very affirming or challenging to them so they don't really have anywhere to go from there). I really only bring out the half-smile thing for guys who I…

I can clearly picture all the gifs people have listed below. I need to take a break from the internets.

Having thought more about this, I think what's funny about the Birkenstock's = fashion thing is that they really are absurdly expensive and they are a kind of status symbol. Yes they last forever and yes "you get what you pay for" in terms of quality, but still. I was actually really excited to buy my…

Lets trade! Except mine are giant because I have giant feet. The woman at the Birkenstock shop said "I'll go get the men's sizes" when none of the ones she brought out for me fit (this was in England where I was always told I was asking for men's shoes).

My greatest struggle in life is that I don't have the *right* Birkenstocks for fashion. I have the one-strap ones, not the two-straps.