they also said gay men shouldn't adopt, and that a family has a mother and a father...

Zoe "I'll-Wear-Black-Face and-Put-on -a-Prosthetic-nose" Salanda is not bothered by ehtics?

D&G party featuring guests in blackface a few years ago

I love how you potentially/probably saved your and your coworkers' lives and a bunch of bros still chime in like "cool story, but I just reeeeeally need to correct you on this one thing that you weren't even wrong about". Way to prove the entire point of the article. (This gif is for them, not you, but I didn't want…

Natural gas and propane have an added chemical called mercaptan that's used to give them a distinct odor.

The terrible thing is that kind of knowledge never sticks. It's not like they'll just start trusting your judgement or anything now. If had things like this happen so many times but it never really changes things.

She didn't claim to have smelled carbon monoxide. She claimed she smelled some sort of gas, and she was right. The gas turned out to be truck exhaust, which contains carbon monoxide (among other things). Additionally, it is possible to smell a carbon monoxide leak if a smelly substance has been added to it. Seriously…

Interesting that a dude chimes in because he doesn't trust what a woman says. Because I'm guessing you're a guy.

Yes, I was going to add that too. It's not really relevant to this case because it was truck exhaust that was causing the problem (highly smellable), but the gas company here adds sulfur stuff so that you definitely smell something.

Carbon monoxide is odorless, but (at least in the United States) the gas companies intentionally put an odor into gas so that people can smell leaks. They do this for safety reasons. Here is PG&E's explanation: http://www.pge.com/en/safety/gase…

Really, I HAD NO IDEA.

The whole men act rationally while women don't is one of the greatest cons ever foisted on humans. You see this a lot when it comes to financial decision making, that it's assumed her reasoning is specious when his is truly emotional. (Note: I'm not saying that men don't or can't make rational financial decision, or…

I'm the only woman in my department of 20. This article is my life. I'm in my 40s, so I no longer just shut up when someone talks over me, interrupts me, discounts what I say, questions my expertise, or tries to metaphorically pat me on my fucking head, so at least I feel more proactive, but even being a raging THE…

well, since george carlin said it i believe it

Do I need Scotch, too?

Anyone who has ever sat in a classroom/meeting/whatever and made a point, been told it's not exactly right, only to hear a man in the room repeat THE EXACT SAME POINT in slightly different words, and be told he's a visionary, has experienced the rage. It more or less sums up like 50% of graduate seminars, and no doubt…

so Mike pretend you are a man and prove us wrong.

Oh, I have a wonderful example of this in action. I'm at work. Myself and the other women in the office start feeling weird. Headaches, dizziness, etc. We think we can smell gas. We become concerned. The men are all "whatever, you are all crazy". This goes on for a couple hours. We are feeling really gross. The men…

This is why talking about issues women face spirals so quickly. "X happened to me." "Nah, it was probably something else altogether." We're considered unreliable witnesses and interpreters of our own experiences.

This was upsetting and kind of an eye opener. We are buying a new house soon and I have given my husband several ideas for renovations that would really suit our personalities. Every time without fail he tells me it won't work because of xyz. Only after I go online and find some guy that has a DIY step by step (that…