CBC Radio did a special on Rosemary’s Baby because of the anniversary and it dealt with the Polanski head on and grappled with the fact that it holds a very important place in cultural history and should the movie be thrown away because of the director even though the process of making a movie involves hundreds of…

When you said this I remembered there was a documentary I had wanted to see about this - thanks for reminding me!
For those who haven’t heard of it, here’s the trailer for “Don’t Think I’ve Forgotten”:

Just to be clear - there are studies that show that there is a slightly higher failure rate for obese women, but they can’t figure out if it’s due to physical reasons or compliance - the same doctor that did that 2010 study also studied specifically obese women and she found that they had a much higher non-compliance…

What they have concluded is that, specifically, the morning after pill does not work for women over a certain weight (I think 170lbs or so). But there has been a direct study that monitored the ovulation rate of overweight and non overweight women on both higher and lower dose pills and they found no difference.…

Here here - he’s not my partner but my office mate (we’re teachers) is the same age as Cross and he’s super liberal and routinely stands up for marginalised students and calls the admin out on their bullshit. He is known for “being difficult” because he points out the problematic shit people do. I was already pretty…

Because no one (i.e. no white feminists) want to face the fact that, like it or not, they make a statement about who THEY are with the person they choose to marry. On the one hand - yes white men are mostly clueless and so we frustratingly have to take on the task of educating them if we choose them as partners and…

To add onto what Chief Queef said - and I am speaking as a white woman, who has seen this happen - there is a very strong push to achieve “marriage, house, babies” as a life script. And what happens is that you meet someone in your mid or late 20s and you fall in love and so it just makes sense to get married right?…

That’s interesting - i remember discussing this with friends here (in Canada) and from what I can understand, you can take time off if you get pregnant during your residency for mat leave but you have to be out for a full year (so like you said, so that everyone is on the same schedule). It ends up working out because…

Yup, they still exist since they were built that way - there are a bunch in smaller towns in Ontario and the Maritimes.

Meh, Wendy's bought Tim Hortons back in the 90s, then sold it about 10 years ago (I think?). There were Tim Hortons-Wendy's combo restaurants everywhere (they had seperate counters and kitchens, but a shared dining area). I don't see how this is much different.

With the apostrophe, the name is in English, which is a no-no here in Quebec. Names of businesses must be in French It took for-fucking-ever for Taco Bell to open a store here because their name didn't comply (I guess they didn't want to change it to La Belle Taco?), somehow they circumvented it.

But that conversation needs to happen on a broader level. On an individual level, you can't simply announce that all these weddings have been a stupid waste of money and you don't need any dumb crystal and by GOD we're going to be responsible and focus on assembling our down payment, won't you please contribute?

I always point to latino tradition when people bring up that they don't want to hyphenate their kids last name with both parents because"just how HARD it will be when eventually two people will hyphenated names to get married and have kids and THEY want to hyphenate their kids names because all hell will break loose!"

This. If I have change, I give it to someone if they ask. I get the "they'll just buy booze or drugs you know" all the time, and I reply "If I was sleeping on the street with no end in sight, I'd want to have a drink too".

I know a bunch of military dudes who also went into nursing to work in emergency response. They wanted to stay within military type danger situations but didn't want to be on active duty anymore - getting a nursing degree allowed for that opportunity...plus they also enjoyed 4 years of being surrounded by women…

We need to stop telling women that having a baby young will ruin their lives. It most certainly will not. Will it make things much harder? Yes, of course, but not impossible. I know so many women doing their PhDs in my department (engineering) who have young children at home. It's not a cakewalk, but it's doable…

It was McGill that cancelled a full year (similar to this) of football because of a hazing incident that was sexual assault on the individual(s) being hazed (only one student complained, but all of the rookies were subjected to the same hazing). I know this because I was a student there at the time. It seems to be…

I know a lot of dude's that have bachelor parties like this. A lot of guys don't like strippers or strip clubs (imagine!), they'd much rather play paintball, go go-carting or spend the weekend camping. And they didn't need to hide it from their spouses, because the women they were marrying were totally fine if they…

Speed limit was 100km/h, they were going between 113 and 129 km/h (most people on our highways speed, they go between 110 and 120 km/h, so it is by no means excessive speeding). Whether they were wearing helmets is irrelevant - at the speed they were going crashing into a car that was fully stopped, they would have…

Totally understandable,since we're part of the commonwealth (i.e. Australia drives on the left side) but I think what happened (this is just a guess) that the initial cars we would have gotten were from the USA (Ford and whatnot), so the cars would have all been for right side driving.