And how does a person respond to something like this? How does a woman who started reading this website as a teenager, who used to seek refuge here when her ideas about gender and equality were shot down by her friends, peers, and sometimes even family, who for some reason imagined this place as being a center for…

Here's a vital conversation to have: where should we draw the line at doing asshole things because those asshole things "create a conversation"?

You're clearly not getting the point. Fancy restaurant = leave your baby at home. This should be common knowledge. It's completely unfair to subject other people to your kid's crying, and the parents should have known better.

Customers voluntarily choose to dine at this restaurant, and if they don't familiarize themselves with the policies then that is their own fault. It's a stupid gimmick to make the restaurant "unique" or "exclusive" - but it is their policy, so if you buy a ticket then you are agreeing to the policy. The restaurant is…

lol I've read all those studies. In fact, they are the exact studies and information I already referred to. For example, from the NYT link, the 500 calorie diet I was talking about:

You are missing the point. No one is saying that fat people do not suffer discrimination. They do. But it is NOT analogous to discrimination based on race.

I'm really not interested in getting into an argument but I will address your points anyway.

I'm on the same boat re: Lindy. I've never said anything because you know people here are super tolerant and open-minded..that is until you disagree with them. I don't understand why everyone has such a hard-on for her. I find her writing to be really obnoxious with the ALL CAPS OMGZ LOLZ in every other sentence. Most…

My favorite comments are:

Excellent points. I agree it's difficult to really write authentically about racism if you haven't actually experienced it. I can understand it to some degree, given that I am a woman (and technically, a minority, power-wise) but no, I've no real idea of the horrors of racism. Insightful comments like yours are…

No, that was Tracie Moore. Erin is from the Midwest, and wrote an article about her childhood bully where Erin made fun of her present-day self because she lives a suburban life with a husband and kids, and is "boring" compared to Erin's big city life with her boyfriend. It was classist and snobby, and completely…

Even if it's not the target audience, it's most certainly the audience it attracts. That's why I rarely ever bother to actually comment or engage in discussion on serious articles. I'm mostly here for the squee and the fluff. While we're sharing experiences, on an article about student loans I got piled on by numerous…

I read this website a few times a week and while there are interesting posts, I would say yes, it does skew towards upper middle class/wealthy and white. I'm black and I guess upper middle class northeasterner but a lot of the posts tend to be filled with over analysis and a certain level of deafness of tone…

I've felt like that too. I've gotten into eating lean beef a lot, cooking it and eating it in small pieces, and despite eating a lot of meat, I've been feeling thinner and less fat around my waist (doing Muay Thai and yoga also helps). I would think eating red meat would be bad, but I always go for the really lean…

Oh, without a doubt. I live, teach and vote in a state in which the population routinely votes against what (on paper, at least—from an economic standpoint) should be its own best interests. Many of these votes (based on exit polls, conversations I've had with said voters, etc) are made on the basis of…

I just realized how my OP might have come across.

I do not disagree that men (as a whole—but part-for-whole thinking is both fallacious and dangerous) have more or less made their own bed. We profited from a series of social injustices and inequities that placed us on an undeserved rung of the power-ladder, and we are…

I'm all for progressive thinking, but it's a little hard to take any article on the current state of the economy and male/female relations seriously that basically slots the "haves" into being internet-savvy Hipster folks with Instagram accounts (who implicitly voted for President Obama, given that their counterparts…

It's pretty funny to see people spew such vitriol about someone so harmless.

she looks like she's in fast forward, not real time! also her teeth must be sharp as daggers

Tonya is that you? It must be to be so bitter.