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,…

Totally clicked here expecting the outrage to be about the Girl Scouts encouraging Barbie to have abortions or something. Thanks for keeping it fresh, America.

All of the goddamn NO in the world goes to this. We'll be sending around a collection plate, so you can tithe 10% of your NO. If there's any NO left, please send it to the This Situation Is Fucked PO Box.

"Cross every single person off your Christmas or Hanukkah or Tet or Kwanzaa or Saturnalia list"

the razor quality is useful for keeping the teeth sharp.

The real solution is for people to stop doing the mugging in the first place, but insurance is a reasonable secondary option.

Gloria Alred only shows up when the money and the cameras are present.

Then there would be no settlements, there would be no incentive to settle if the plaintiff could keep talking about the case. You would end up in constant legal battles that would drag out in a neverending legal system. IT would also remove the incentive for mediation to try and settle matters out of court. In your…

I clearly don't speak for these women but as someone who received a settlement due to a traumatic experience (and of course, wasn't able to discuss it much further), it was the difference between debt and economic stability to me. It made everything that was a money problem a non money problem. Of course, it did…

Nondisparagement clauses and no-admission-of-wrongdoing clauses are two of the most basic, boilerplate terms of any settlement agreement. Does is suck in this situation? Absolutely! Is it surprising from a legal perspective? Not at all.

Yes. It is totally standard for a settlement to include an agreement that the plantif will cease talking about the issue cited in the lawsuit. Institutions don't do monetary settlements if they don't get something for it. If the young women didn't want to agree to silence, they could have refused the settlement and…

This isnt usually high profile enough for her, she typically is only in it for the hype.

I probably sound like a broken record but I really think that Jezebel needs a legal analyst now. This article is ok but I would like the perspective of an actual lawyer.

wow, nice to see that wallflower, Gloria Allred finally getting some air/airtime .

"UConn will admit no wrongdoing and the plaintiffs will agree to shut up."

Of course the school didn't walk away from the settlement with "nothing to show for it". That's the point of settling. And these terms are extremely standard.

She obviously was looking to file this lawsuit when she applied for the job. This is someone (more likely an organization funding her) looking for a lawsuit to push their agenda.

i'm serious here. i worked outside just long enough to realize going to school was a brilliant plan. a/c is a glorious invention. every single one of you motherfuckers would sacrifice ice cream, the internet, attention...pretty much anything this side of sex and food for a/c.

80? get the fuck out of here. i'll set my a/c to 80 right after the last hummer is off the road. i'll set my a/c to 80 when dick cheney's heart falls out his rectum, onto chris wallace's face. i'll turn it to 80 when the ghost of my sharecropper grandfather comes back and says "you know how i SWEATED AND SLAVED…

There's the progressive in me that remembers the constant battle for minimum-wage struggling two-job single moms fighting to get paid a living wage and all that stuff. And I'm generally sympathetic to that cause and usually loathe the "just get a better job!1!1!" argument. And of course for cheerleaders they deserve…