Yes! That’s one of the aspects of tech that doesn’t get enough press, IMHO. Also the widespread availability of flextime, which I can’t imagine life without (especially with the erratic nature of Bay Area traffic!)

I think it’s interesting that benefits associated with improving women’s experience in the workforce are…

I understand why they wouldn’t have previously offered it (fathers work to provide for their household; mothers stay home to raise the children), but I agree that it still shows how hypocritical a lot of pro-family organizations are. I also think 6 weeks paid maternity/1 week paid parental bonding is really stingy.

If…

Patriarchy. Women were shut out from making money, and men wrote plays/musicals that were predominantly about men.

Why? Broadway and national touring shows aren’t bound to local demographics. If anything, I would expect theater programs to skew whiter than national average and thus Broadway/touring show auditions to skew whiter.

Yes. If you sign a contract with a worker that says worker will get [x] benefits after working for [y] amounts of time, you can’t revoke [x] benefits because you didn’t plan for it appropriately. That’s bad management to not adequately plan for a known expense.

Unions don’t guarantee any outcome, however, so your…

I have many friends who mermaid for corporate events and parties. I am very jealous because I cannot swim and had to pass up the opportunity to get hired to mermaid several years ago.

This seems like a really fun way to exercise, but already sadly too advanced for me.

Why not have exercise fun? I would totally do more body building if it involved sparkles and unicorn horns. But then, I’m an aerialist, so I’m already fully on board with sparkles and fun—but very difficult—exercise.

I think there’s a lot of room for union growth in non-traditional union occupations, like the service sector and low-wage office work. Frankly, I’d love to see it even among higher wage office work. There’s a lot of shady crap that goes on in tech with misclassification of workers that’s difficult to understand and…

I read her as saying the brownness was her skin, not makeup. I’m not familiar enough with her to weigh in on whether she’s lying or not. I don’t think it’s impossible that she’s telling the truth—I’ve known many an olive-complected person who tans that dark—but it’s also certainly possible that she’s lying!

Isn’t she Iranian-American, who grew up in the US?

I think you have a solid underlying point about inconsistencies in who and how people get called out, but I don’t think it’s accurately applied here.

Although Thor: The Dark World deserved lower than 66%. That was a hot mess of a movie.

It’s not like “Atlas Shrugged”, which was a generally disliked movie. Wonder Woman is like any other movie that’s been wildly successful and considered good. There are still some people that don’t like it. Some of them may even be able to articulate great reasons for their dislike. That doesn’t make them right and…

I didn’t say anything that implied that home births are always a bad idea. I said that based on what I’ve seen, the homebirth industry spreads more misinformation about the risks of labor.

(and while I understand and appreciate protecting privacy, I’m a little mystified why you can’t clarify the basic fact of whether…

I think this is actually a general problem of conversation and terminology that social justice theory refuses to address, much less solve. Every demographic that I’m aware of—both marginalized and others—have specific subgroups that engage in horrible behavior that deserves to be called out and critiqued. But those…

Entitlement

This is one of the things I truly don’t understand about the Haredi. Debate is core to Jewish practice. How can they have such guru-centered authoritarian practice?

When I was younger, I used to think the ultra-Orthodox were practicing the real Judaism that the rest of us were too assimilated/too committed-to-comfort…

While I don’t know anything about Buddhist fundamentalism, my husband’s family is from East Asia and he likes to horrify me by talking about Buddhist sex scandals.

Were you physically present? Because it not, it is possible that no one told her that, and she misunderstood what she was told.

There’s a lot of fear mongering about both C-sections and C-section abuse that causes women to fear hospital births needlessly. Both midwives and OB/Gyns can do and have done their jobs…

Yes! I think a lot of the negative reputation midwives and lactation consultants in the US have is earned. A midwife endangered a friend of mine by pretending her high blood pressure didn’t rule out a home birth (friend was transferred to hospital and all ended well, but there was a lot of pain and stress that could…

Looking at the link, the call for volunteer interpeters isn’t for panel-interpretation. I didn’t see any explanation of what the volunteers would be doing. I love the Anime Feminist piece as a general piece—especially the concept of culture of support versus culture of entitlement.

But I’ve been observing a rush to…