it’s like poverty porn! a very small scaled version of voluntourism in Africa. kewl.

That is privilege onto itself. No one I knew in college — neither my state school with shitty cardboard mattresses, nor even my friends from high school who went to more expensive colleges — bought their own mattresses. That’s a thing?? A grand on setting up a room is budget-friendly when you’re middle-aged but when…

Yea, gurl!

like I know he’s an actor but did he literally stage a cry, pull out the camera, and snap. wow
or was actually very upset about something and bawling, thought mid-emotional-breakdown “ah, this would be a good photo op right now”, and pulled out this phone camera

After age 1 or so, kids’ dietary needs aren’t all that different from adults’. There’s the growing bones thing but calcium can be found in a lot of other things besides milk — milk doesn’t have that large of a percentage of it, for what advertising might make it seem. Vitamin B12 is the only imperative in…

Well why can’t they grow up vegan or vegetarian and choose to eat meat later in life? Meat is norm to you only because of the family and society you grew up in; it has no inherent moral superiority that makes it the “net zero” base to start from, over another.

“Lately, within the past decade or so, there has been almost a type of revitalization movement in the Islamic world, as Islam has come under a type of ethnocentric criticism from the West, many people have turned to the religion to reaffirm their identity - including more Muslim women living in Western/Northern…

How we were raised is usually what dictates our culture, yes. Almost everything we do is entrenched in outside influences — familial, societal, etc — because we essentially start out as an empty slate. Are you this indignant about the fact that almost every woman in the U.S. feels compelled to shave their body hair?…

LOLOLol DAMN DO I GOTTA TAKE OUT A FOOL?

(For any of you nobly intentioned men reading at home, the reason this is appropriate in this sentence: the humor in Warren’s sentence is obviously built around the “hahaaha, he lost to a GIRL!” trope of adolescent and teenage boys in American culture, and it drives the point…

MY CRINGE FACTOR IS OVER 9000

seeing as there’s “Men who write ‘I’m a male feminist’ essays” and commend Aziz for looking up feminism in the dictionary once I think there might be jokes

It’s nowhere near that high. Where did you get that number? We actually learned in medical school that the risk of hereditary disease in first cousins is 4%, only 2% higher than the general population (enough of a scale trial with parents/siblings hasn’t been studied due to low sample size). Once you get to insular…

I just said a similar thing on a different thread! Agreed.

As I see it, adults’ personal choices fall under 3 categories: There are things that most agree are not morally reprehensible and thus not against the law. Then there are things that may be gross or inappropriate but do not need to be against the law. Finally, there are things that most of us condemn and are…

Jesus. Was this person Woody Allen?

her vulva is very distinctly outlined in it. it looks weird.

Yup. I feel like once Trump became the nominee, Fox News execs sat down with Megyn Kelly and were like “Look, now he’s not just a joke who definitely won’t get the nom — we have to support the republican and you’re killing the brand here... do something...”

hah, Laverne *definitely* looks at least 40 to me, I don’t know how anyone buys that either. I mean, she looks stunning, she just looks 40 (looking an age is a neutral observation IMO — just like a fat woman can be both fat *and* attractive, rather than attractive despite being fat, a woman can look 50 and attractive,…

yeah, Beyonce has been around in mainstream music since ...1996? 1997? Online says she’s born in 1981, which would make her 15 or 16 when Destiny’s Child was first making waves. Hmm. I don’t feel like any of them looked that young...

The point about light to moderate drinking is not true. That’s why in the past year the American Association of Pediatrics (along with CDC and Ass’n of ob/gyns) came out saying there is no safe amount of alcohol during pregnancy. The paper: http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/136/5/…
The risk obviously…