Ugh, no. My stomach hurts just reading this. People can be so awful when they're given the opportunity to judge like this.
My coworkers and I go out drinking after work, go to each others' family parties, and often sleep at each others' houses. Iz that okay?
I give this comment five MeowMeowBeenz.
This is a ridiculous idea, workplaces are dysfunctional and miserable enough as it is, we don't need a fucking app to tell us that.
Also, maybe we could stop spending our time ranking literally all humans from best to worst?
If this is Ottawa, Ontario, then the barista did the right thing because it's also the law:
Sometimes I hate my country.
I screencap it for my blog then go weep into my ice cream as I Google Cat Lady Starter Kits because that's obviously the direction my life is going if these are my only choices.
I think this was handled well, but I'm disappointed that this incident makes clear that rape culture is as much a problem up here as it is in the US. We Canadians can do better.
You mean, "right on, Canada!"
Because it's a systemic, not individual, problem? Trying to dismantle the contributing environment will do more good than just getting rid of the specific individuals from one, known, incident.
Sometimes a problem is so pervasive and odious that the only way to eradicate it is to drain the swamp completely. Yeah, it sucks for the parties that will be negatively impacted but were not party to the crimes, but if that's part of he cost of tackling rape culture it's a cost we must bear.
It raises the bar, though. Maybe not enough, but some.
The health of a newborn is nothing you want to mess with, man. They're tiny and they have no immune systems — if a pediatrician says to do something for them, do it. Keeping a baby alive is more important than just about any ethical stance you can take. I suspect this mother might have some postpartum crazy hormones…
Yeah, my dad, who works as an organic environmental chemist testing pesticides for the EPA, would like to have word with this woman. Save your money, folks.
She "did not believe that her baby was dehydrated because the child was having bowel movements." This is an absolutely ludicrous assertion by the mother in question. I'm no medical expert, but isn't diarrhea and subsequent lethal dehydration one of the leading causes of death in the world?
I don't blame vegans for this one. I blame Florida.
Good work, pediatrician. For such a young baby, another day of dehydration can be very serious. I'm glad someone was looking out for that baby.
If you are legitimately trying to learn you could try Googling.