Academia is ABSURDLY abusive. I’ve known professors who had made 90% of their graduate students, postdocs, and staff researchers cry at least once. I’ve known techs on fieldwork who were required to work with aeresolized carcinogens without respirators and sharply rebuked for reporting injuries that would lead to OSHA…

71 percent of 512 female respondents said they had been sexually harassed during field work

Knuckles Deep makes me sad because she describes herself as crazy and needy - now unless she’s broken into his house and stolen his child’s bunny and boiled it, I think “crazy” is some bad self-talk. She isn’t needy - she’s a person with needs and you only feel “needy” when those needs aren’t being met. I hate “love…

I can’t think of other situations in which you are allowed to blow up another person’s marriage, but I’m sure our commenters can come up with some.

If I were mrs hole I would want to know. Better to know before having more kids/spending more time with him.

So here’s this clown, Sabo.

If I was Jimmy, I’d be more upset by the half assed execution.

First-this is an incredibly insulting and dismissive point of view. “Just adopt” is maybe the least helpful thing you can say to someone struggling to conceive, and there is nothing wrong with wanting your own, biological child. Second- yes, there are children that are in need of homes through fostering or adoption,…

There are very few children who are true orphans with absolutely no family who need to be adopted. Adoption is expensive and traumatizing. Adoptions are open now. It is not in any way equivalent nor should it be viewed as the consolation prize for infertility.

I’m not a woman

I don’t mind talking about it. It’s actually really interesting and shows how wrong the “life begins at conception” mantra is.

This right here is why it should be considered an etiquette breach of the highest order to ask someone if he or she is trying for a baby. Best case scenario, you’ve invaded someone’s privacy that does not intend to have children and is fine with it. Worst case, you deeply hurt the feelings of someone who wants…

Been there, done that, got the tee-shirt. When people ask me how many miscarriages I had before we ended up with an actual baby, I just say “fewer than 10.” Had them with fertility cycles, I had them between the fertility cycles. This is the way I know, at a gut, experiential level, that a fertilized egg is not a…

What is Mel, I’m a fucking Catholic, Gibson hanging out in a stem cell clinic. I thought they were all dead set against this!

Regardless of whether or not one thinks (based on their viewing of Making a Murderer) that Mr. Avery killed Ms. Halbach, it is more than clear that he did not get a fair trial. I know that I shouldn’t be, but I’m astounded that injustice has once again prevailed.

Ladies and Gents:

Wonder if he’ll get as much shit as Ariana Grande did.

I don’t blame Jason Aldean for taking some time off. He and his crew were shot at like everyone else near the stage. I can’t imagine how traumatic this has been for everyone involved.

look, no one should have their life torn apart because of an unwanted pregnancy that they never intended or expected to have happen. to risk losing your job, the respect of your friends and family maybe, a huge chunk of your money-

There are people who act as if what he did in Hollywood was an isolated incident and caused by grief (wtf?) over Sharon Tate’s murder. Gimme a break!