A favorite defense of anti-vaxxers when confronted about their completely unsupported claims is “Look, I’m not saying vaccines cause autism, I’m just asking questions!” like that makes endangering children ok. It’s so incredibly frustrating, and I don’t even have kids to be worried about(but my cat is fully up to date…

Even normal people would rather put themselves into $200k of student loan debt than just go to a community college. Can’t miss out on those parties!

If she was really interested in her education, she could find a good community college, do well there and transfer to a university after a couple of years. I’m guessing that won’t happen.

Damn... I never and I mean never expected to find my epithet on Jezebel, but I’ll be damned (probably am anyway) if it didn’t happen.  My I tombstone will read: “I don’t know anything, and I haven’t learned”

People that think like that drive me nuts. I’m 39 and have paid off my student loans. It sucked, and of course I would have preferred to spend that money on other things. But I don’t want the next generation to have to go into debt simply because I did. If everyone thought that way, society would never progress even…

That’s the basic argument against it that I hear.  My response: well, I won’t reap the benefits of the social security taxes I pay, so I guess you shouldn’t get those.

But then you’d just end up with a Brontësaurus. 

That’s what bothers me so much about statements like this. We need to get rid of the notion that abusers are monsters lurking in the shadows. They’re people we know and sometimes people we like. Saying “Oh that person couldn’t have done something terrible because they were not terrible in front of/to me” is part of…

Unknowing or not, they should not benefit from their parents’ fraud. They’re still taking a spot from a student who actually earned it. If your parents steal a car and gift it to you, you don’t get to keep it when the theft is discovered. 

Yale alum here. Both things are true: the system is unfair and those kids work fucking hard as shit. There are a large number of very rich people in the world, all producing these thoroughbred children. They'll do anything to get their kids that extra leg up; working the system is part of winning in it. These kids…

Legitimate question after reading this article and several others. All the articles indicate the students were “unaware their college admissions were premised on a bribe.” Okay, fine. But as a 17 or 18 year old, wouldn’t you be aware that it is unusual that someone is in the testing room with you giving you help and…

Actually, it’s kind of the exact opposite--this shows how very difficult it is to convincingly fake an attack, and how easily the stories of people lying about being assaulted crumble under investigation. Nobody is sincerely equating “believe victims” with “don’t investigate crimes”; that’s a straw man used by rape…

“Believing the victim” means exactly what you just said: a crime has been reported, we will investigate it fully because we believe a crime has been committed, and we need to get to the bottom of it.” As facts emerge, sometimes, so does skepticism, but if you first reaction is to say, “well, he might have been making…

No, she only sounds ‘stupid’ if you have white supremacist ideals of English language usage. Because it’s a living language with multiple colonized cultures participating in the growth of the language her usage is no less valid than that of an upper middleclass suburbanite’s, nor an Australian aboriginal’s, nor the…

Let’s not. Let’s just not have deductibles. Let’s just have real fucking first world health care like every other civilized goddamn country.

Agreed. I LOVE being old(ish). When I think of the crap I tolerated when I was in my twenties, I could just hop in a time machine and go back and throttle my younger self. 

Completely unrelated to anything here, but I just read this short story (about an hour long read) and..... GODDAMN.

I don’t see why people find this complicated! The dot over the “i” is Tuesdays. And, July. And, sometimes never. It’s sometimes the moment when nothing never occurs. It’s so easy, people!

I feel like this says more about the way society tells people to think about domestic violence as somehow less serious, or something understandable.

This is a very important take. A domestic abuser killed his ex-partner and also those who tried to respond. This isn’t a cop-killer who also killed “two female staffers.” And to say otherwise is once again dismissing the harm IPV and toxic masculinity has on women and our entire society.