I think for some people, "fight" means "actively disagree." For others, it means "loudly release big feels." For still others, like my SO and me, it usually means "Talk it out before someone blows up, thus relaxing the issue." If you use that last definition, I can't remember us having a real "fight." If you use the…

Given that many retail jobs (including fast food) require flexible shifts AND will fire you if you have a second job which interferes with their shift planning, I think you need to sit down and realize your attempt at advice is neither current, useful or original.

If you're in the U.S., download the ROC United National Diners Guide (available in iPhone, Android and PDF flavors). It has information on policies at chains, plus independent restaurants in about 10 metro areas. One of the columns tells you whether a restaurant gives sick days to its employees. Few do, but if you…

"...but this is the US where illness is a bad choice made by the patient."

The main reason I did this for this week is that I feel like everyone needs to see this shit. People need to know these aren't isolated incidents.

Having a Master in Public Health and worked/working in restaurants my whole life (and being able to add SO MANY of these stories), if I ever get my PhD, my dissertation research is going to be the epidemiology of disease spread among restaurant workers to the customer. Only, I doubt any restaurant would ever let me…

Rape still isn't funny, even when it's prison rape.

I watched the video when it was up. The security guards are being incredibly patient, and she is being incredibly belligerent and kept trying to make the guards feel guilty about her sobbing 8 year old. Also, she wasn't kicked out. They told her that she couldn't be in the pit with an infant, but they could move her…

Just a reminder: Apple also refuses to recognize when you're typing the word "vagina" into your iPhone.

I completely agree. This just seems like pedantic nonesense. How many 15 year olds are out there now being tried and sentenced as adults? If you do something really bad like shoot somebody or rob a place you are clearly a capable mature adult person, but if you are a (probably) horny 15 year old girl doing something…

Lawyers for a 17-year-old boy accused of sexting...

Your President('s Twitter account) is feeling a little cheeky today.

basically slavery

A few things here. First off, "how many women get pregnant per year using those methods" is the most accurate measure of the failure rate, since it reflects how the average person actually uses the method. Sure, with better sex ed and more widespread knowledge about how to use contraception, these numbers would get…

Certainly MIFEPREX/Mifepristone (what is commonly referred to as the "abortion pill" used together with Misoprostol/Cytotec is more effective (95-98%) than misoprostol alone, Misoprostol by itself is about 80-90% effective, and generally pretty safe do to for women that don't have other options. I would typically NOT…

I'm Molly from the article (and from the Jezebel article "I Help Desperate Women, And I Could Go To Jail For It). If you need information about how to obtain or use these pills, contact me at molly.blythe@gmail.com.

You know, I've been looking more closely at right-wing rhetoric around abortion, and though its arguments are couched in language about the sanctity of human life, I've noticed how frequently the issue of having "murder" be "legal" is actually central: I don't think the right-wingers have deluded themselves into…

"The question was asked, 'What could make a woman become so dark? To lose all sense of her maternity, her womanhood, and her softness?'"

Good news for those of you barely managing to snorkel through your student loan debt: today, President Obama announced an executive order that expands an existing law allowing many borrowers to cap their monthly loan payments at 10% of their discretionary income. Hooray for your $120,000 English degree!