Between the prices of buying a home, and the expected cost of putting any hypothetical children I may have through school vs paying off all my student loan debt, it just seems that realistically, all the things I thought I wanted growing up (school & family) turn into an either/or situation. My cousins who didn't go…

Agreed. Girls were getting pregnant in 8th grade in my school district, and in part it was because sex ed was nonexistent and the community we were in doesn't view abortion as an option. Teen pregnancy was such a rampant issue that I was pulled aside by a teacher because for an assignment I happened to write about…

Only she didn't consent immediately in the book, either. A reading of the passage the scene is based on has Cersei saying "no" first. What's sad about all this debate is the reality that especially in the context of established sexual relationships (which statistically are the ones in which rape is more likely to…

I feel the same guilt! The worst part of getting older for me seems to be finding and endless supply of revelations about things I love, like football, and how at their core, there's some messed up stuff going on.

All too true, businesses skirt labor laws whenever they can. Glad to hear that settlement came out favorably for you!

No worries! It does seem like the Jets cheerleaders at least have a better shot of winning their lawsuit, which will hopefully shake some things up in the NFL. It seems like such a sucky industry to be in, all around, for the players and others like the cheerleaders.

Except for states where there are no state minimum wages, so the minimum employers pay is the federal minimum wage. It's not just these cheerleaders that wind up getting paid less because society views their work as not worthy of more compensation. I'm not saying these cheerleaders don't have merits to their lawsuit,…

Hmm, it's from the quote above from the LA Times, that the teams consider them independent contractors except for the Jets, where they're employees. Without having seen any of their contracts, it's tough to say what exactly they're actually classified as, but it doesn't seem like it's always as employees for every…

Agree with what you're saying. There's jobs where people expect to make above minimum wage, and jobs that won't ever pay more than minimum wage, but they come with some perks (in my case, it was getting to be around dogs all day and setting my own schedule). I knew if I wanted to make more money, I'd have to make…

But...that's the whole point of a minimum wage. Employers very often do pay just that, and as consumers many of us frequent establishments where the employees are only getting minimum wage.

Only except for the Jets where it looks like they're actually employees, they're not, they're independent contractors. In the fields I've worked in tech/retail/education there's a huge difference in what a person can expect to be paid as an employee vs as a "contractor" because the perks come with being an employee.…

as opposed to making lots of money because it's Big Law and they are good at their job?

as opposed to making lots of money because they're in Big Law and were likely stellar performers academically and might just be good at the job?

Yeah, it's not like I have a massive sampling size, it's just something I've noticed as being similar across partners as far as what they seemed to like/dislike (I don't avoid much in the bedroom, either, pleasing my partners pleases me). The circumcised men regardless of their backgrounds tended to prefer bjs, those…

exactly, different stokes for different folks! I've been with dudes who think like the majority here that they're boring, but there's a few for whom it is a preference just because they enjoy how it feels over doing it alone/other acts. thinking about it, there's a slight correlation between their enjoyment of…

well, let's be realistic. anyone doing any sweeping in this country in an upper middle class "white" home is going to be be non-white, because household manual labor, like outside manual labor is the work for those of the lower classes (woe be unto them to produce children who *might* have aspirations for something…

I'd want to talk about it, but it'd probably require more introspection than the average Jane is willing to take on.

Well, there's also the fact that most rapes don't occur by the "random stranger grabbing you in the night" format, it's usually those you know that you have to worry about. In the text, she says no first. How many men actually stop on the first no they hear?