Knew a female grad student who got some prize for her research (I was working in a college office at the time). The 3 male grad students who shared the same office helped her staple papers detailing her work to one of those huge three-fold display boards. That was ALL they did to help. After she won, the professor…

Pleeeeeeeeeease tell me the soundtrack has lots of clarinet.

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But the price of food goes up commensurately with the price of everything else. So when a sandwich was 8 dollars in 1998 and it is now 15 dollars, 15% in 1998 = 15% now. So cost of living doesn't really make sense assuming the cost of food increases with inflation.

I'm fine with people giving 15 percent. Giving 20 is easier and nicer and anything above that is really going above.

Unless the price off food hasn't increase with inflation, you are correct. 15% then equals 15% now assuming food matches inflation (which it usually does).

30% now? GTFO.

20% is standard, now? When I served back in the late 90's, 15% was standard, and 20% was for excellent service.

Thanks for linking to a website that is not Jezebel to prove how Jezebel feels about a thing. That's fun.

This from a man who posted on televisionwithoutpity.com that Rick Cleveland didn't deserve his Emmy because he (Sorkin) did most of the writing for the episode. And went on to post in great detail the breakdown of writing duties on The West Wing and how he did most of the work but union rules force him to give others…

The funniest part of this: In the Princeton story, Don describes the victim and her rapist, respectively, as a "very credible woman" and a man with "every reason to lie". I think one could easily reuse these descriptions here.

No. In the US, you can get a midwife every bit as qualified as the one you got, with degrees and experience and the ability to take you to a hospital if something goes wrong. Or you can get the old lady from down the street who insists that she's a midwife just because she popped out a shit ton of kids. We don't…

The friendzone articles have a set three-letter format and you're expecting Sara to break that over something she flat-out admits is not something she feels equipped or justified commenting on.

fuck him so very hard.

Alright, we get it. You think Picoult and Weiner are terrible horrible authors and they have ruined fiction as we know it and they may have eaten your first born.

@Hana Maru: EXACTLY what I was going to say if someone else already hadn't. The sexism and ageism are just stunning—-like, how could a middle-aged woman even fool herself into thinking that she could ever, ever be intelligent, creative or interesting?

Perhaps, these middle-aged women have been wanting to write a book for a long time. Or maybe not write a book, specifically, but to try to achieve something in their lives - and once you hit 40, a lot of the options may already be out of the question (like becoming a prima ballerina or top scientist or having a big…

@Gnatalby: First rule of New York-style white personhood: You get a pass on doing the things other white people are doing if you find a way to be more knowing and condescending about it. The only true crime is earnestness.