They charge the merchants a credit card processing fee, so if you’re making enough purchases they are making money off of you.

yeah, I can confirm. The issue is more that you don’t get any benefit in your credit score from having a card you never use. But you don’t have to carry a balance. Ideally, pay it off and then use it for convenience and pay off the balance each month. That will only improve your credit score, and of course it will…

id take it a step further and say it’s not JUST about being cool with yourself and feeling neutral, it’s about actively working to have empathy for other women in place of competing. that’s usually the best antidote to self-absorption, self-consciousness, and envy - true empathy for other people.

I explained North America to my European cousins like this: we are an apartment complex, America is that giant party that wont end even though the apartment is being wrecked and seems fun but when you get inside its only fun for a certain type of people. Mexico is directly below and is doing their own thing, and…

this article had flaws—but are you seriously suggesting that’s all that happens in Iran? get out

Oh, really? I mean, obviously an actual war zone would be dangerous but the vast majority of the “Middle East” is not a war zone. You have to be careful not to offend people but the same could be said for foreigners traveling through Small Town, U.S.A.

Sounds like an amazing voyage. Have to admit: I’m a bit jealous. I’ve read so much about Iran, and have had friends from there give me amazing descriptions of life there, but I’m such a nervous traveler that I don’t think I could ever bring myself to go to somewhere so unfamiliar. And I don’t even have the added…

I presume that during this paid leave you’ll be doing something that benefits society akin to producing the next generation of tax-payers/consumers/workers?

Because people having children is (generally viewed as) a good thing for society and social programs (like paid parental leave) are designed to make socially beneficial activites somewhat easier, which necessarily comes at the expense of everyone who doesn’t partake of those services. If you want to equate it with…

Ohhhh myyy godddd, I said in my first comment that you should by fighting *for* paid sabbatical, not *against* parental leave. That is what you're looking for, right? Being paid to not be at work? I have also mentioned that that life is not fair, and it’s quite unlikely you’ll get equal concessions. When you learn to…

What if we did away with maternity/paternity leave all together and only gave paid days off for when your cat is purring on your chest and is being too adorable to move?

Gender identity is biological. Racial identity is social. When you are transgender, it is literally how your body is hardwired. When you claim to be a race that you are not, you are pretending.

Word! The best education I ever got was being expelled from religious & “secular” private schools in Houston in the 80’s.

The Most Dangerous Easiest Game

Lol Adele’s been listening to Hotline Bling too long. I do love it though. Typical big brassy emotional Adele. Love it. Plus what’s his face from 90210 is still fine as fuck.

I mean, is this peak Adele or what?

Trying to preempt those comments doesn’t make them any less relevant.

The Bollywood costume was made for Madhuri Dixit in Devdas, but apparently it was too heavy for her to dance in. I found this promo photo.