What complete and utter bollocks. Forcing women to adhere to someone ELSE’S arbitrary view of what “modesty” is does not empower women. Kowtowing to some random patriarchal checklist only serves to reinforce the notion that women must be controlled, contained, covered, all at the discretion of men.

I definitely think that’s part of it. When I was in high school, I went out to eat with my mom, and she had a coupon for one of the meals off. I was a very good tipper even as a teen, but it never occurred to me that - if I had been paying - I should have paid based on the total pre-discount amount until my mom…

You dudes are so fucking creepy. If you can’t “learn” because one girl in your class is showing the same amount of skin as all the boys in your class, you should seek therapy and be home schooled (unless you have sisters. Then just live in a van).

A REAL prude would sit at home on a Saturday night, sewing her own shorts from last year’s Butternick pattern.

Especially because a lot of people pay to get their makeup done, or they have false eyelashes on or something, and you really don’t want a bunch of icing to fuck it up.

I suspect it’s a little bit of both. Personally I don’t believe that we have just one perfect person for each of us but rather that there are many people who could potentially be a really good fit. Finding them is likely some combination of luck and opportunity. :)

One can only hope that this girl knew exactly who she was marrying, and what looks to us like barely contained anger is something more like fond exasperation.

One of my favorite comments on soul matery was made by a long forgotten comic who snarkily marveled at how common it is that we seem to find our soul mates in the very same town where we live. What are the chances! With seven billion people on earth, it seems like there’d be far more instances of one’s soul mate being…

This shit is so annoying, it’s right up there with those dumbass pictures my aunts share with quotes about wine that have fuzzy bad quality minions on them. WHY ARE THERE MINIONS ON EVERYTHING?!?!

Nah, most of us just assume the servers are treated like real employees and get paid normally, then the tips are us giving them a bonus. Not the “they get paid $2 an hour and most of them have some of their tips stolen by a forced tip out” that actually exists.

That’s why I occasionally drive by and throw trash in the yard of the guy who works the night-shift at my corner gas station. “Fuck you, Roger! Why my gas and smokes still so spendy?”

As an Australian, I find tipping in the US terrifying. There are so many confusing rules and scenarios. I’m perpetually afraid that I’m inadvertently ripping someone off.

People do not understand that fresh water is not a renewable resource on a human time scale. Geologic time scale, yes, but not within our lifetimes or those of our children. Assholes need to research the Ogalalla aquifer. My resource management professor argued that the wars of the future will be fought over water. I…

It’s hard for people to eat local. And I’m really trying not to sound like a hipster douchbag when I say that. But it is true, I’m not even saying organic, but just stuff that grows in your area. I’m guilty of buying strawberries and melons in the middle of winter. On the other hand, I did a local farm share once. By…

Yeah, when I was a server, I usually couldn’t afford to tip huge. I’d tip 20+, but not much more. Now I tip pretty big on good service (30-50%), often to make up for any unknown poor tippers at the table. But I don’t usually mention my past in the industry, unless they are apologizing for something being late or…

No, it’s NOT okay — cleaning up after yourself is just common decency. It’s not that much work for you, but it makes life much easier for the staff who aren’t paid enough to clean up the accidental messes, much less if people leave everything behind.

Whatever we go on field trips we make the kids clean up after themselves because we want to be able to come back plus we’re all Native Americans. We have to leave a good impression of our people.

It’s baffling. Dana’s story indicates (conservatively) no less than 9-10 trips to the table. How can anyone try to defend a $2 tip for that amount of service?!

Has anyone out there just refused to go to restaurants with someone? Like sat them down and said something along the lines of, “When we go to restaurants I feel very uncomfortable. I think we have different ideas about tipping and how to treat waitstaff and these ideas are things that I do not feel comfortable…