This is so true about my work as well. We've got a couple of men who spend all their time talking about "shaping our vision" and "more fully distilling our values" and insist that no work can be done on any projects before we do this. Who ended up drafting statements however? The women. Who insisted we keep driving…

This forever! I read pieces like this and just wonder what is wrong with these people's friends. I've always had a lovely time as a member of a wedding party, and I've never had any of the brides make huge financial demands. Maybe if your friends are being horrible about their wedding they just aren't very nice people?

But... pretty much everyone else manages to do it? I mean you say this like it is some sort of insurmountable barrier but literally EVERY OTHER COUNTRY IN THE DEVELOPED WORLD manages to do this. Are we all secretly unrecognized financial geniuses? Could you not, say, take a look at how everyone else in the world…

It's ok- a lot of places on the web are assume-you-are-american-until-you-say-otherwise, it doesn't bother me!

Full disclosure: there are two specific articles I was actually thinking about that I wasn't able to access from work... but I could probably dig them up when I get home. I had no idea that SNAP used text alerts- I'm not American which probably has something to do with it.

That is true in quite a specific context I suppose. It seems to me that unless it were governmental services, schools or employers who are texting (which in my experience they never do, along with my grandmother they are about the only ones who still leave me voicemails) it wouldn't specifically disadvantage anyone if…

As to the first part, I think which one is more considerate depends on the circumstances. For example: if I am calling my mom to say hi and see how she is doing I'll leave a voice mail, however, if I am letting a friend know what address we are meeting at, or confirming a specific time for an event I think it is much…

What if she did? It still wouldn't be the fault of a girl in her first year of high school that she was taken advantage of by someone who was old enough to have graduated from a four year college program and started a career. (And yes. There were some pretty alarming things wrong in her life at that time. Still not…

I'm not going to lie and say that I don't have a personal stake in this discussion- as I posted down thread I had a friend who used to go online and flirt with older men when she was around 13/14- and she definitely had a couple of them try and meet her in real life. She looked a little bit old for her age in that she…

1. I'm pretty sure the age of consent in Sweden is 15- not to nitpick but please get your facts right if you are going to throw them around in a tizzy. And I hardly called the entire nation of Sweden out, so slow the fuck down. The truth is that Sweden's laws about age of consent don't actually have a legal effect on…

Lack of mental health funding is horrible, no one is arguing that.

You said this much better than me. Thanks!

I don't know- someone in their twenties continuing engage in sexual behaviour/communication with someone who says they are 14 is pretty fucked up, regardless of what they look like. It's the same narrative you hear over and over again from people who abuse young girls - she was "older than her age", she "didn't look…

Oh, so you've met my father then?

To be fair, I've moved continents three different times in the past five years- a lot of my stuff is in digital storage as well. There's nothing wrong with that and you will never hear me argue that it's not incredibly useful. All told I probably have about 20 hard copy books that I've either shipped with me every…

I feel like it would maybe be better if the boxy pseudo crop top bit were actually cut higher. It would look a bit more fashion forward and maybe create more shape, especially contrasted with the long sleeves

But they ... don't all go to the zoo to see camels? Loads of kids who have never seen farm animals still know what cows are from quite an early age. Plus I hardly think they need to understand exactly how snow is formed to think- oh yes! cold white stuff that covers the ground. There are books... and films... as this…

Well, I certainly knew what deserts and oceans were from a young age, despite growing up hundreds of miles away from either in snowy Canada. I don't think it's that much of a stretch.

Hahahaha, they can pry my books from my cold dead hands. I'm always so confused by these people. So you don't want a tonne of stuff- great! I don't have a tonne of stuff- I can't afford it. By why wouldn't you want things like family photos (or books) around? How is that harming you? It's not as if the picture of my…

I mean are we really surprised about this casting/other shit from JJ Abrams? After the whole ST: XII debacle? Honestly.