But see, that's the lie. Women weren't given anything. The erosion of the power of the unions and increased global competition made paying men wages with which they could support entire families less and less common. For the most part, women weren't "invited" into the labor market. We were shoved. First into the…

We're not going to get anywhere until there is funded maternity AND paternity leave that everyone takes. If it's accepted that both genders will take it, it becomes less of stigma. And that's not even coming just from a stance of job equality - most women could desperately use the help of their partner at home after…

I don't know about other Countries, but in Canada maternity leave comes out of the Employment Insurance Fund (Federal government) so the employer is not paying women on maternity leave.

The fairest thing would be paternity leave for fathers as well. Neutralize it! Also, some women are more career-focused then their partners so it doesn't always make sense for the mother to take the maximum amount of time.

Oh, fuck off with this. If I were getting repeatedly harassed at my workplace, my employer would take measures to ensure the harassers were removed and prevented from returning. I'm not a delicate, wilting flower that needs to be protected, but I'm also not some ragdoll that you get to toss around whenever you feel…

What on earth are you talking about? Offering to help is now a 'white savior complex?'

To me, it seems this is really indicative of the way in which it's so much harder to exist as a woman on the Internet — women have to deal with so much shit, and so much of the stuff done to ~make the 'net free for everyone~ doesn't take that fact into account at all. There was an op-ed in the Guardian about that this…

There's a point to Kinja? Because it's failing miserably. Comments around here were 200x better a couple years ago. Old articles popping up make it all too obvious.

The problem I have with all of this is that everyone assumes that making a decent human is a "recipe" and if you do the right things and add the right ingredients, you are guaranteed a fantastic result. Of course everyone thinks they have the best recipe...or secret ingredient...but the bottom line is the same: the…

But they're NOT flushable—even if they say they are. They will mess up your plumbing—your toilet plumbing, I mean!

Easy solution: don't wear thongs.

More proof that trolls aren't isolated shut-ins that are resentful and lonely - they are genuine psychopaths.

Of COURSE the collective narrative of trolls is wrong. Yeah, the traditional troll model is some 14-25 year old male with cheeto dust fingers, Mountain Dew, lol neckbeard, etc etc, but I've been using the internet since my preteens and I used to be a vile little shit, too, before I grew up and realized what a…

Maybe he wears a very well tailored person suit.

What the hell is up with these porn gifs in the replies?

On a personal level, too, I got many reactions. On my Facebook, from my friends. It makes me feel satisfied about my work – at least the work I did is so impactful that I'm able to shed some light on this.

The restaurant, I should explain, was an old American restaurant situation in downtown Pittsburgh — a place where you need to explicitly ask for french fries NOT to be on your salad (Editor's Note: Goddamit, Pittsburgh, you're embarrassing yourself).

Yes, it's dismissive. But I also think that we're in an era of "slacktivism" where people get worked up over the terms of some company's product (often rightfully so) and automatically expect that it will be reversed to respond to the public outcry. I personally get tired of people complaining that the free service…

Every time we talk about people not being able to afford things, someone always comes in with a comment that says "just live within your means and everything is fixed."

Does Emma Stone play an ambitious PhD student who is focused on getting a tenure track position and falls in love with a 26 year old PhD in the same department, thereby facing the "two body problem" of finding two positions together? Or does she have a tedious affair with a much older professor played by an actor in…