I say skip the Liberty Bell if there’s a line, but if you’re there off-season, go for it because you might as well if you’re there.

Please miss the Rocky Statue - every time I see the line of people waiting to take a photo with it, I wonder why they’re wasting their time. Get to the top of the Art Museum steps to look out at the city skyline, for sure, but don’t bother with the silly statue.

Yup - he wanted to bring a mom into the house so he doesn’t have to be the one parenting his kids. I don’t think the letter writer’s actual needs/inclinations towards parenting his kids were taken into account.

I think that’s a stretch - MoN might have decided not to give birth/didn’t want to raise very young children, but have no instinctual resentments towards older children.

I was at a Q&A with Emily Blunt where someone asked her what Meryl Streep was like on the set of Devil Wears Prada, and she said Meryl was actually really chilly to her during filming and avoided socializing with her. Then on the last day of filming with her after cameras stopped rolling came over and gave her an…

I’d say making the trip out is what means something - if you can’t make it to the funeral, depending on how close you are to the family, making the effort to visit the week before/week after can mean even more.

Agreed - the flights alone were $1000, and she’s complaining that the “price” on their relationship was a *measly* 200 pounds? No, the price you put on your relationship was probably somewhere around $4000 or more that you expected them to spend going to your wedding halfway across the world. If she’s pissed the…

The problem is that the BSA has been dick-waving for decades while the GSA has truly stepped up in inclusivity and empowerment 

Girl Scouts can attain “Gold Stars.” The fact that it isn’t as “prestigious” as the Eagle Scout rank is more to blame on the fact that men ascend the powerful ranks of society more than women, so Eagle Scouting is therefore more associated with leadership.

Um I would disagree that a region with minorities in the majority means the white people there aren’t racist. I’ve met some racist as heck white people in Philly, where they make up a minority, and I believe firmly in the correlation.

I’ve heard first-hand from someone who called in a Spanish interpreter for someone from a Hispanic country who then turned around and said they had no idea what the person was saying, nor could they tell which language interpreter they really needed.

Same results for the deaf people, but he might’ve been fired. People do stupid things under pressure sometimes. I won’t defend the decision to make/let him do it, but with my limited knowledge of ASL, I can see where some of the things he signed were close/off (for instance, for “calm” he signed “heavy,” but it looked…

At one point I wanted to go into publishing and found people through my college’s alum network & parents’ friends to ask how to get a foot in the door. I got confirmation again and again that the way in is unpaid internships (and one guy flat out told me his career worked out because of his double-income household)

It’s like kids who are pretty sure Santa doesn’t exist, but go along with those Christmas traditions “just in case”

Yup. My grandpa made it known in mostly subtle ways that he had racist views (and some of my great-uncles were much more overt), but my grandma was always tight-lipped about her political opinions (every election she refused to say who she voted for, since it was her prized right as an American not to disclose) and…

But then all they’re really saying is “oh please, I have it so much worse than you” which isn’t constructive

“at least you can get pregnant” sounds as stupid to me as “at least you get your period.” Like great, these annoying parts of your reproductive system works, but fat lot of good that does...

Only if you think reality TV is actually filming reality, and that its subjects aren’t in on it.

God, isn’t it an awful feeling when you get a limp finger-shake from a dude? It always gives me a split second of anxiety that they’re going to try to kiss my hand. Can’t decide which is worse: when a man does it, or when a woman gives me her fingers to shake. Are these people secretly royalty?

Are you saying you basically just shake women’s fingers when you give them a handshake? Maybe you need to rethink your gender-specific greetings because that’s just the kind of thing that feels wrong when men do it to me.