Exactly. I suspect that a similar phenomenon would occur if students were asked to write a piece from the perspective of a different racial or ethnic group. Dominant groups are rarely expected to develop even a cursory understanding of non-dominant groups, but everyone gets steeped in knowledge about the dominant…

Yes! I have a legitimate fear of being upside down that I developed after botching the landing of a back handspring and breaking all the bones in my foot. But it’s not like I want to explain my life story to a yoga instructor, so I just pretend to be really thirsty or duck into child’s pose to avoid someone trying to…

My husband and I are trying to make this decision, too. It’s 3.5 years after the wedding, and we both still have our maiden names because we couldn’t decide.

You’d be surprised. When I do cognitive assessments on teenagers, many of the ones who pass (meaning they don’t have a cognitive impairment) don’t know their own state capitol or what country lies south of the U.S.

I couldn’t pick Federer out of a line-up (though I have heard of him), and I don’t know who Rafa is, so they don’t seem very recognizable to me. I definitely know who the Williams sisters are, and I know exactly what they look like.

It’s maddening. Many news articles will link to the original study, and it becomes immediately clear that the author of the news article didn’t even bother glancing at that link. S/he just looked at the botched press release and ran with that.

It seems pretty similar to elderly couples who are essentially a two-bodied entity because they look and act exactly the same.

It makes zero sense, especially when you consider that white men own way more guns in the U.S. than any other demographic. What the heck are they so afraid of? They’re the ones with the most power.

There are just so many good jokes to be made with swallowing disorders. I mean, every now and then when I type “consistent deep penetration” I think: “I wonder if this kid’s Dad will get a chuckle out of that one.”

So true. The men I know who call themselves “entrepreneurs” are all unemployed narcissists. One even has a website where he markets himself as an “entrepreneur and business coach.” He’s never held a job for longer than 6 months and didn’t go to business school. It’s pure delusion.

Yes, Theo is awesome. Woodblock from Portland is excellent as well. Also, both brands are about $4 a bar instead of $10, which means that a normal person can buy one without it being a luxury item.

I agree, there should be a better term for this. It sounds weird, and it bugs me because many plus size models are a size 12 or 14, so they’re not even technically wearing plus sizes. Maybe just “typical size”? A 12 or 14 is, after all, more typical for an American woman than being a size 00.

Some of us flatly refuse.

Portland Thorns! Most-attended women’s soccer team in the WORLD, yo. Their last home game of the season sold out 15 days prior to the match. Granted, way more people go to Timbers games, but people here support the Thorns, too, for sure.

Apparently we share a mom. Mine is like this, too. She does not remember almost anything that I tell her about my life, but she wants to talk to me all the time. This results in us having the same conversations 67 times, and me not really wanting to talk to her because I’m really bored of those conversations. One…

Same. I feel like people assume that someone who has been sexually assaulted will develop PTSD, but in reality, different brains process traumatic events differently. My assault was at a relatively young age (high school), and while I was certainly upset about it at the time, I have not experienced any significant…

I’m American and I’m just as baffled as you are about the death penalty. It doesn’t make any sense to me. Those who are in favor of the death penalty usually argue that it deters crime (even though numerous studies demonstrate that it does not), that it helps victims’ families (even though studies show that any relief…

You’ve got the right idea. I had a lot of non-starters when I was younger, and honestly they were all really silly. Eventually I realized that I just wanted someone who was a great partner for me. If you’d told 22-year-old-me that my future husband would only read occasionally and misspell words fairly frequently, I…

I mean, Jay certainly springs to mind as a candidate. When he talked to the police, he already knew from Jen that they thought Adnan did it (she says she was told this during the initial interview). That certainly would have made it easy for him to sell the police on the idea that it was Adnan, not him.

I think the bigger question is when the burial really happened. He changed it from 7ish at night to midnight in the Intercept interview. If it was midnight, then the phone tower pings in the Leakin Park area around 7 P.M. are meaningless, and those pings were huge in that conviction.