No. Absolutely no shit. Ever again.

There are a couple of these that made my inner child’s stomach lurch in sympathy. I spent a good part of my childhood as a “display kid”, trotted out when my narcissistic pastor father wanted to make a good impression. I feel your pain, Caroline. You’re welcome to come hang out with me and my kids any time. No hugs…

They’re strangely puritanical about sex, so you’re really not allowed to have sex unless you’re married, leading to lots of Sea Org members getting married very young. (I’ve read way too many books about Scientology.)

Totally agreed. I gave birth with a midwife in the hospital and it was perfect. She was very chill, and even though there were some tense moments (like with you, I ended up having an OB involved at the end, even though the midwife was able to deliver my baby), she was clear and relaxed with communicating with me.

And your midwives are the equivalent of US CNMs. It wouldn’t be my own choice, but I fully support women choosing homebirth under the conditions you describe: trained medical professional in attendance, transfer agreement / contingency plan in place, short ride to hospital.

Many Sea Org members report marrying young. It comes with some privileges - like a private room for the couple. Plus, with the near constant interrogation of individual members, marriage doesn’t really increase the chance they’ll escape, only the chance someone super close to them will rat them out if they step out of…

I really can’t wait until this ridiculously evil cult is finally destroyed.

The terrified-cracker contingent is perfectly willing to condone the hate speech & the white-supremacist pals, because it doesn’t affect THEM, as long as he makes the empty promises they want to hear. Siege mentality.

This is true. But I think the point stoprobbers is making is that there are other groups who are also systemically disadvantaged, and have been for much longer, and in much worse ways.

Are you a white, male, and in college?

I’m just a poor white trash motherfucker. No one cares about me.

People are really worried about this because even though white men are an ever decreasingly important voting block they still get a disproportionate amount of media attention compared to everyone else.

The problem with your argument of: “They’ll hire the best person” is the entire article above. If that were true, the lone woman in the group of 4 should get hired 25% of the time. It assumes people start at equal footing, and the fact of the matter is that they don’t.

Real question I have about transphobic bathroom residents, and also people who scream about people on welfare buying steaks with food stamps: who the fuck is paying THAT MUCH attention to the other people around them? I can’t remember the last time I made eye contact with a stranger in a bathroom let alone debated…

Get the fuck outta here with your #notallmen apologia. The reason why a minority of men can get away with such spectactularly bad behavior is that the rest of us participate in power structures that ensure that they don’t suffer any consequences for it. Nobody gets a pass for not being actively sexist in a patriarchal…

“Robert E. Lee” came in second.

While everything in the infographic is true, and does have merit, I think publishing it as the gospel truth here on Vitals does people a disservice.

While many of these points are valid, I think a better way to summarize this is that many people misstate their calories when calorie counting and not as much that there are inherent problems with calorie counting. It takes discipline not only to eat better, but to track it all as well. If you start to take shortcuts…

she is easily the slowest learner of the entire Stark family

I live in Cleveland and started at my last job (nonprofit arts organization) at $26k. Comfortable? Maybe. Comfortable enough. When I left I was making $30k (the equivalent to $15/hour) and would definitely say I was making a living wage (for a single person supporting only themselves). Could two people in Cleveland…