Of course the way to atone for treating women poorly is to donate to charity for a male only health condition. Ugh!

She's already suffering. Now people will have to witness it in a more tangible way.

Yes! As a white kid growing up in a really WASP-y town, those types of shows were the majority of my exposure to other races and cultures for a good bit of my childhood. It's hard to believe that we've actually gone backwards since my childhood, but where are the Cosbys and the Winslows on network TV?

How did I leave out DW? So good!

You know how if you watch an episode of Star Trek or whatever and there's a redshirt in a dangerous situation? They die and you aren't surprised at all and maybe even roll your eyes and say "ugh saw that coming a mile away". It would be nice for women to not be redshirts, so that countless stories don't start with…

yes, someone else who remembers Christopher Pike books! I wasn't a fan of Goosebumps, did like Fear Street ok, but Christopher Pike books were definitely my gateway to John Saul / Dean Koontz / etc. books.

Exactly! In my church there are tons of groups that actually do good stuff. We have groups to help immigrants, groups to visit hospitals, groups to teach people about good money management, college applications, sadly we also get all these invitations to join an anti-choice group from a neighboring church. I hate…

I remember reading this article about how biker gangs were volunteering to help kids who had suffered abuse. They would escort them to and from court hearings, show up whenever a threat was made, and keep watch whenever needed. Basically, whenever the child felt uncomfortable or scared, they showed up, ready for…

This whole thing has just hit me so hard. I'm a few months older than Zelda, and I'm incredibly close with my dad. At 25, I've been on my own for a few years, have settled into life as an adult, and I've been relishing in the nuances of having a relationship with your parent where you co-exist as adults, not a…

I have never been so filled with a white hot burning RAGE on behalf of someone I've never met. Poor Zelda.

Anthony Bourdain checked out a French school lunch on one of his shows. For LESS money than the typical American school lunch, the kids got from-scratch balanced meals prepared by a chef. The meals, and challenging the kids' taste buds, were considered part of the school curriculum. None of this "they won't eat…

I know in Queensland, once you reached certain level of martial arts training, you had to go register with the police. Any assault by someone with a certain level of training is automatically classed as assault with a weapon.

Somewhere in the equation aside from racism, institutional bias, etc., I suspect the following is part of the problem: the persistent myth (within and without) that law enforcement is a "highly dangerous job" (the oft-quoted "putting life on line every day"), with people naturally (re)acting according to that…

As a man whose bought tampoons for his girlfriend, I've always wondered why the hell it's considered a joke.

Men have no idea what tampons and pads cost and how deeply essential they are. There's a huge stigma about menstruation that makes a dude buying tampons for his usually overly emotional girlfriend into a tired TV comedy show trope. Women in poor countries either have nothing to bleed into it (and lose jobs and school…

That was a kind thing for you to do.

That's how I want to go. I want a life long friend with me, getting stoned and having a pint. When my mum was dying, I sat her down and rolled her last joint for her. We spent the day laughing our arses off and eating pumpkin scones. She passed on the next day and while I miss her so much I can't help but have my…

And the fact that she owned every damn thing. Cars, houses, boats - they all belonged to her. Ken was just as much an accessory as those shoes that always got lost. And she could be a businesswoman/astronaut/teacher/scientist/model. She had all the jobs.

I loved Barbie and somehow I managed to grow up to be a feminist, not have an eating disorder, and be enthused about math AND science. I wonder how that could have possibly happened? Could I perhaps have gleaned some positivity from a doll that can be anything and isn't just pretty, but was president, and astronaut,…

... okay, I'll bite.