I'm glad you do what you do. Jezebel is the first place I ever openly talked about my own insecurity on this subject, but I felt it was important to address because I wanted other, younger men to not go through the experiences I went through. Unfortuately even some progressive, good-hearted people out there will, as a…

smh, Connie would be so disappointed

Yeah, I was confused with that statement. Wouldn't the people with low levels of empathy be the ones that need these experiments the most?

In 2015, if these experiments are useful in increasing political empathy, they are useful only to people who have a troublingly low level of it to begin with.

Treading very carefully here, but as someone who was woefully that ignorant only two weeks ago, I think (at least to a degree) some of it comes from the "whitewashed" education most of us are given, the environment we grew up in, and literally never having considered (or have had to consider, simply out of ignorance,…

" In 2015, if these experiments are useful in increasing political empathy, they are useful only to people who have a troublingly low level of it to begin with."

How offended would the Muslim community be if I started wearing hijabs because I hate washing my hair and I think they look chic as fuck?

World hijab day, where non-Muslim women are encouraged to wear hijab, was started by Muslim women in the US to get non-Muslim women to have a way to empathize with what they experience. It seems like this is a continuation of this. I don't get the snark (eta: except about the 'skin darkening').

I guarantee you those are the same people who think racism doesn't exist anymore because they've never seen in action, or they have never been racially harassed. They think we live in a post racial society because we have a black president, and they think Black History Month is bad because it "brings up race" and is…

Apparently people still think if they didn't personally witness someone being abused it couldn't have happened. They must also think that harassers wear badges identifying themselves as such.

This has to be about the tenth time I've heard of such an incident.

Do you have to go back at once? You could maybe do part time for a bit, sort of ease into it?

I have two kids, 7 and 2, who have been in daycare (and then school) since infancy. I feel zero guilt. My boys LOVED their daycare — wonderful loving teachers, a safe room full of toys and friends to play with, activities all day, what's not to love?— at times, they clearly loved it more than being home with us on…

It will totally rock her world for a short time, but that isn't a bad thing in the long run. :)

God, quit trying to ruin everything by tying it to weight. Let us have this one thing.

How do you deal with the guilt of chronic illness, as a mom? I have two young daughters, and it looks like I'm going to have to start treating for Cancer again soon. Just about all I can do with them right now is read stories.

Lego Movie snubbed???????

It is dickheads such as these that cause me to ALWAYS tip at least 20% unless the service was truly appalling. Chances are, some asshole has cheaped out on my servers tip at some point in the evening. My extra $$ may not make a huge difference, but I hope that it at least sends the message that not everyone is an…

"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."

Kicking a mourning family out on streets IN THE MIDDLE OF A FUNERAL, that must be some of that christian hospitality I'm always hearing about. Didn't Jesus say something about casting the first stone?