When my sister was 3 and I was 2, our horrible babysitter decided to punish her for some garden-variety 3 year-old transgression by telling her that she was taking me to McDonalds and leaving her at home. The babysitter’s plan was to just idle in the driveway for a few minutes ‘til my sister learned her lesson or some…

I’m pleasantly surprised her parents weren’t arrested.

Exactly. I looked in vain for mention of the jacked-up costs of health insurance, rent, and every other damn thing except computers.

Probably don’t want to know.

But it’s cool, we can earn less because the job creators are able generate more wealth.

To keep for themselves.

Explain why they are justified in denying women Plan B emergency contraception? Even if they are willing to pay for it? That’s just denying women access to medical care. It’s irresponsible.

It’s the employer’s responsibility to provide medical care, because they are trapped on the ship for 6 months and ports of call might have inadequate care. The article clearly says that they can’t even buy birth control or Plan B emergency contraceptives of any sort. As for providing it for free: it’s just wise policy…

Well, yeah, generally people should buy their own shit. But this is a stupid company move: if you throw a bunch of young people together in a confined space for 6 months, there’s going to be lots of banging. Now, you can hope that they won’t be cheap-asses and will have brought their own condoms (and accurately…

Seriously. It just doesn’t make business sense. While they aren’t under any obligation to provide free condoms, it’s just the smart thing to do from a business perspective: you don’t want your crew catching diseases or getting pregnant as illness and turnover are costly and a hassle, so make preventing these things as…

Why are you assuming that the cruise ship doesn’t provide access to all of those things too? They know damn well how tiny the rooms their staff uses. The employees there are not packing 6 months worth of toiletries and basic medication and the cruise line knows it. I’m sure the employees have to purchase most of these…

what’s cheaper: some rubbers, or replacing all the female staffers that keep getting pregnant (and settling the class action suit they will inevitably file for you illegally firing them due to pregnancy)?

Since when has having sex in time off been “fucking all over the ship”? You seem very angry and judgemental about this. Is there something else bothering you?

1. Do you think these people work 24/7?

I’d say a big part of the problem is that every scumbag can have an untold number of victims. People are acting as if Cosby is an outlier but if a rapist gets to be in his seventies without getting arrested for his behavior, 50 victims would be a pretty low number.

This band keep getting better and better. Costume idea?

I, for one, was excited to learn of this new instrument “base” guitar. ;););)

He’s got a PhD in Love.

IME, men who would never force someone to have sex have a hard time grasping that other men aren’t the same way. And I don’t just mean “men who believe rape is wrong” (because everyone’s going to say that) but men who are legit turned off by a woman who’s not totally into it. Because sex is something that happens…

I can’t even fathom the courage it takes to speak out about this. Especially in the public eye, when there are MRAs who think it is fun to harass women on social media about things like this. And when people have no shame arguing whether they believe her or not.

So basically people get the right to carry firearms at the same time that they get the right to drink alcohol? That’s not very smart...

Yeah, I agree that it is not a high bar. But it is higher than “every student can carry a concealed weapon.” Nonetheless, it doesn’t really evoke visions of safety.