God, no it’s terrible. But to hear the powers that be tell it, it’s the best system ever, and single payer would lead to death squads for grandma.

I don’t think we have a great health care system, and I have insurance through my job. I think it sucks that for many of us, our health insurance is tied to our jobs; it keeps people in jobs they hate. And with a lot of people working in the “gig” economy (meaning no benefits) and that number growing, something has to…

Lots of Americans do. When I talk to Americans about the Irish healthcare service, lots of them be like “ah but when you have a baby with super-rare genetic cancerous infectiousitis syndrome, you send them to MURICA #gotcha #blessed #patriot”. They have like 9 of the 10 top individual hospitals in the world, being,…

Health care is great here when you have access, so you’re both wrong and right. I have great insurance right now and was able to be seen by an assistant, a physician, and two wound care nurses with two hours’ notice. But without insurance, I’d be looking up how to drain an infected wound right now.

I’m an American and don’t think we have an amazing health care system. You can get good care if you’re fortunate enough to have insurance, but if you don’t have insurance, you’re royally screwed. Since the system depends to a large extent on private insurance, it’s not a good system. Many measures of health care…

Yeah I’m older and more aggressive now and tolerate very little crap generally, but I was SUPER young and this dude had been gaslighting me and trying to crush my self-esteem for years...it was really hard to stand up to him at the time, although I’m glad I did once when he tried to bully me into something really…

Oh man that is eerily similar. My situation was also an ill grandparent— I was already quitting pretty much over pure hatred for my boss (during one particularly bad episode of abusive behavior from him I got through the day by mentally imagining the exact day I’d quit and setting that date in my head, so when it…

That right there is a whole new level of petty!

True, but never forget:

Is is still an engagement ring if it’s not used to propose marriage? Like, don’t the circumstances of it being given to you actually define what kind of ring it is?

I do agree, as the father of a daughter that I am happy these books exist and give my daughter a good source of role models and curiosity about history (and the roles of women within it). However, as a man, I do hope the trend branches into hybrid books aimed at all readers, boys and girls, that give robust, diverse,…

Ah, geez.

Oh right and ~natural~ beauty only! Make sure it doesn’t look like you tried to look pretty.

he decided to start writing a memoir on an old typewriter

“Hmmm. Misusing ICE is the only way I can get a boner.”

I just need to write that I fucking hate men that are fucking abusive and I hope they burn in hell.

If we had one man a week being murdered by their partner, I highly doubt we would be telling men to be aware of their surroundings

As we all know, calling 000 means your mugger/assaulter/rapist/murderer will immediately run away, or just hang out with you until the police arrive.

I’m getting flashbacks to the Jill Meagher incident in 2012. Because being raped and murdered and dumped in a shallow grave was totally her fault for getting drunk and walking home alone along a busy, well lit main road at an hour when trams were still running, and not the fault of a serial rapist who should have been…

You are so right. Walking home—that is, existing in public—is exactly like jumping into shark infested waters with a bloody foot. Thank you for your excellent and non-sexist reasoning.