Christ, the “good girl” thing is irritating. I’m not a dog, I didn’t just successfully do a “down/stay.” I hate that.

"Oh, are you the paralegal?"

OMG, I have an example from yesterday that I’ve been stewing over for the past 24hrs. My math professor used a sexist joke as an example of a math proof (girls=time X money, money=time, money is the root of all evil so money=sqrt(evil), therefore girls= sqrt(evil) X sqrt(evil)=evil.) It’s lazy, stupid, and sexist. He…

I work for a big utility company in a technical position, and I am one of 6 women in a group of over 30 people. The majority of the company’s 23,000 employees are male, and the overwhelming majority of women in the company work in administrative support, clerical, or other non-technical roles. The culture can be…

Am I the only one who would really prefer it if no one talked to anyone at the gym? We should all be sweating and suffering in solitude. If that doesn't work for you, then get thee to a tae-bo class (or whatever you people are doing now)

About seven years ago I was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. I was lucky in that it was fairly isolated so they just chopped that sucker out, but I was devastated by the treatments. Just.. so so sick. An old friend of mine (we'd shared a really shitty apt in NYC in my early 20s and during this time she and I had had a…

I was seeing one of my longtime best guy friends (whom I'd kissed a couple times over the course of our friendship, but had just started, like, being with in any more significant capacity). He told me that he loved me quickly. The whole thing was very intense. I'd been hearing rumors from mutual friends that he was…

Dammit! I missed this one!

This is all Stephen King's fault.

I'm easily the worst in the class every time I show up, but I'm learning.

maybe if we stopped pretending like it's cute to wear someone down, we could then also stop pretending it's not okay to say yes, too. They go hand in hand...empowering people to make decisions they want by respecting and trusting them when they say what those wishes are.

So, I haven't really found information that better outlines what sort of relevance medical records need to have to be accessible by the school for litigation purposes under FERPA but these records would have been accessed anyway, without the law and even if she went to off-campus counseling. One of the claims in her…

Thank you. I am so tired of the constant refrain that "today's kids are the most spoiled ever." (And the constant trotting out of that dreadful New Yorker article to support it.) From Hesiod to Bronte to Roald Dahl, people have been complaining about spoiled children and how they will ruin the future of the planet…

"I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on frivolous youth of today, for certainly all youth are reckless beyond words... When I was young, we were taught to be discreet and respectful of elders, but the present youth are exceedingly wise [disrespectful] and impatient of restraint".

Fill them with existential dread that their lives are meaningless when they misbehave?

This was my exact thought. If you think what you are doing is going to cause DHS to file charges, maybe you should realize what you are doing is supremely fucked up.

I'm an adoptive mom. When my kid was going through issues you know what I was doing? I was looking in to temporary residential care or other programs to help treat my child, not removing her from the family. My DHS was supportive, they know her behavior warranted the discussion. Thankfully we found counseling and…

We're gonna need a bigger cross.

I'm sorry, but this common comment to those of us with fertility problems is one of the most heartless & ignorant things you can say. You have no idea what is happening in our lives & families—& it's not like you call 1-800-BABY & one gets dropped in your lap. There are a myriad of complex reasons why someone would…

Children who were "beaten" won World War II,