Super helpful!

I’m near 30 and I know people wonder why I don’t have kids or a serious boyfriend. I’m absolutely fine with them thinking I’m a closet case. Now, in ten years, that narrative will probably change if I’m still single, because my grace period for coming out will have passed.

Guys ghosting will never be okay. I don’t care if your family was in a bus explosion, you don’t do that.

This is when being a duckling-turned-to-swan story gets interesting. I was a pariah throughout school, when other girls started getting boyfriends and first kisses I was left behind, and rejection from my crushes became the default setting. I got asked out as a joke everyone was in on except me. Then, I hit 19-20, and…

There have definitely been students who were “trouble”, but not for me, at least in terms of restraining myself from such an alluring prospect *eyeroll* I had a 13 year old girl manipulate the boys in the class, and try to sit in their laps and shit, and eventually turned them all against each other. It was horrible,…

I feel like when you’re somewhere where the population is more than 50% black, you get a better reflection of the actual populace in most jobs. But say you’re somewhere in Iowa and your town of 20,000 is only 7% black, then cut the numbers further to the percentage of adults who go on to teach and such, and you’re…

I’d be interested to see the geographical layout of this information. Growing up in northern AL, half of my teachers were black. That could have been because there were several universities close to the main city, or just that that’s how things were in the deep south. Half my classmates were black too. Are the…

I have a colleague who is one of those people that just has a gift for teaching, he’s in his late 30s/early 40s. He was describing to me the feeling of conflict that would come up when he taught English to adults in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. Basically, his (male) friends would ask every term if he had any “promising…

I guess I find it a little surprising that we don’t really know since by now they’re adults, and could cash in on a tell-all, which most people are wont to do when it’s instant money. Maybe they changed their names and legit identities, though, I can’t say I’d blame them for taking that route either.

When I taught, I never had any bathing suit area feelings for any student. It just didn’t happen, and plenty of my students were much older than 13. They’d flirt and try in awkward ways, but if you’re holding your position as a teacher seriously, you don’t get those feelings for students. You just don’t. If you do,…

I think they’ve technically been “together” the whole time, at least when the system allowed contact. The whole story is so weird.

IIRC, when the scandal initially broke her husband noped the fuck out and took the kids.

Yeah, that’s true, since you’re operating privately in the air what can you do about questions like that? In the workplace on the ground they’d be considered sexual harassment. So people ask anyway, and it totally doesn’t surprise me that they relegate their wives to dealing with the kids.

Dude, forgive me for not knowing. That’s all I can honestly tell you. I had NO IDEA this weird side internet war shit was going on, I’m off and on Jez and all I was trying to do was be fair. I clearly see that his attitude in writing hasn’t just been for show, he really is crass and rude and looks to be racist based…

I've come away with more questions than I had upon clicking this headline.

What’s with 7 limes?

I haven’t had GS cookies in years (thanks, diabetes!) but at a spot I worked at, we would buy them in bulk to use on top of sundaes and make mini ice cream sandwiches with. Just think, I could have pitched that — two Thin Mints with mint ice cream in the middle — and been rollin’ in it.

Further pandering to their ridiculous demands will only make it worse. They need to treat these dudes as they would anyone who was holding up a flight — if you can’t compose yourself and take your damn seat in a reasonable amount of time, you get kicked off. Those 20-200 other people shouldn’t risk missing their…

Dead on. If you have some kind of religious rule that would be broken in the situation if you don’t specify otherwise, then you call up and specify. If you’re that diligent as to cause a disruption on the plane, you should have channeled that diligence into making the reservation a special case when you got your…

So if you’ve got 10 flight attendants, and 8 of them are women, all of whom have declared themselves ‘dirty’, what happens during meals/drinks/etc? Do these dudes just eat last because they can only be served by a male steward? Because men being forced to wait and eat after the women because of their own choices is…