right but like, what can YOU do to enforce labor laws besides leaving internet comments about it? this whole article, and my TLDR version, is explicitly about the systematic structural injustice involved in the salon industry. this type of wordy grandstanding leaves me cold as hell

that being said, again, i think if — as i wrote in that comment up top — people didn’t go to nail salons unless they could afford to slip their nail person a 100% cash tip unseen, the NYC nail salon industry would also experience a supply and demand reckoning, which would still, regardless, leave many of these women…

you’re right, the takeaway should definitely be to leave an internet comment dismissing the imperfect and incidental value of capital transfer to the people in need of capital without proposing anything in its place. there’s value in being realistic and there’s no reason that tipping more (if you do this shit, which i…

Bruce said in the interview that he prefers male pronouns until he says otherwise. It’s even mentioned in the beginning of this article.

Agreed. Long time lurker and only now starting to comment but I just wanted to say, it’s good to see you writing for ROYGBIV again, Kat! I’ve missed your writing.

I personally dislike sexy advertising - it’s just not my thing. But I wholeheartedly agree with you about the oozing and the Uncle Terry shenanigans. STAHP

That is super creepy. Wtf.

St. Jude’s Bike-a-thon. I was about 12 or 13, skinny as a rail (I was a late bloomer). I was BOOKING IT, back and forth on this road that they used to count as our “laps” that we were sponsored for. By booking it, I mean, out of my bike seat and just pedaling standing up. A man working one of the lap stations at the…

A distant cousin spanked me in public. I was 14. Nobody did anything to defend me. I ran away and cried from the pain and from the embarrassment.

I mostly ignored boys in school, totally uninterested. But thinking back, when I first started wearing real bras in 5th grade, boys used to make a game of snapping my bra straps.

I was told I should shave my legs since the 3rd grade. I begged my mom to let me but she wouldn’t until I was in the 6th grade (using Nair). I got holla’d at by grown men starting around 12. I was called “fat” and made fun of by other kids as young as 8, but looking back at my pictures, I was perfectly normal. I think…

5th grade (‘90 or ‘91). The boy sitting next to me rubbed the hair on my leg and told me I should shave. I did. My Mom was like WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING??

“Any police officer especially would have reacted in the exact same way I reacted”

This is so difficult to read.......rape victims are not the ones who should feel or be shamed. A friend of mine I went to high school was raped and she ended up transferring to another school because her family thought everyone would find out and she would be shamed by the faculty and other students. It’s such a…

I'm sorry this happened to you. Thank you for sharing this with us. You are strong for sharing this and going forward with this.

You are very brave. All the best to you in the future.

Thank you for sharing your powerful story. You are an incredibly strong woman, and I wish you strength going forward as well.

From the story above, there doesn’t seem there was anything illegal done — it’s not a crime to go on vacation and turn off your phone and not log into Facebook, and Costello isn’t the one who called authorities, or gave anyone any false information — so not sure why your surprised that no charges are being filed.

"It is the position of the American Dietetic Association that appropriately planned vegetarian diets, including total vegetarian or vegan diets, are healthful, nutritionally adequate, and may provide health benefits in the prevention and treatment of certain diseases. Well-planned vegetarian diets are appropriate for…

As the owner of a toddler, I could not fathom what I would do if I decided that he could not eat cheese. Cheese is pretty much his favorite food. That said, he hates meat. Maybe it's a toddler thing.