In my high school, there was a big problem with kids (especially those who spoke English but whose parents did not) dropping out of high school or skipping class to work full-time. But my school district did the sensible thing, and instead of instituting truancy fines to punish parents who are already deeply…

You're a better person than me, because my first thought was, "Oh great I can't wait for all the hipsters to 'discover' Hank Williams through a G-D big-budget biopic and add him to their standard hipster disclaimer while they're trying to sell you on EDM: I like all music, except country, unless it's [Johnny Cash,…

True story: I beat Tyson as a kid. I was playing at the neighbor's house with their two kids and we were doing the typical 10-year old thing - playing video games all night until our eyes bleed. It was about midnight (Saturday) before I worked my way up to Tyson. I had faced him before and, like most people, got curb…

I'm not really surprised, you come off as the type of person who has no damn clue what the phrase "you can't squeeze blood from a stone" means.

Yes, jail is intrinsically dehumanizing, and it's one of the ways that we use to de-value a person in our society. Regardless of whether you look down on people who have been to jail, I can assure you that many in the U.S. do look down on anyone who has spent even so much as a night in the clink. How do I know? …

I'm not a fan, at all. I don't get the obsession with him or Benedict Cumberbatch.

Well, just when I think I've fully left my small town 'Murica self behind, something like this pops up and my first reaction is "Oh hell no Hank Sr needs to be played by an AMERICAN god damn it over my dead body".

I'll be honest, I felt the same way for a while. Loki was not hot to me. And then I realized he played F Scott Fitzgerald in Midnight in Paris and I was like holy crap that was him??? I find him much more attractive as a blonde. and then you see the youtube videos of him dancing and being really a nice seemingly…

Chris Pratt seems delightful and I would appreciate everyone agreeing to my conclusion/not shattering my delusion, thusly.

Coachella-bound Moaning Myrtle Lana del Rey has reached peak Lana del Rey...

A metaphor: Your roommate brings a stray dog into your apartment , the dog takes a dump on the rug in the living room, and rather than clean up the poop your roommate gives the dog a biscuit for taking the dump. You walk through the living room as you do every morning and step in the shit. The roommate defends the…

Well, that's a matter of opinion, and I think it's interesting that it's yours. I've been reading Jezebel for years, and don't remember ever encountering female commenters here who say men can't be feminists. As I said, in real life, I don't know a single woman who would say that. It seems to be a fairly small…

My teenage sons are feminists. I noticed today that the 13 year old just posted a link to a witty thing about feminism from College Humor on his Facebook page. They get it. They — and their father — are feminists because they are decent human beings. I mean, if you think women don't deserve the same rights,…

Virtues =/= Bigotry

I'm disputing that it would constitute a "radical change" for the BSA to allow gay leaders. All that is necessary to effect the change is for troops and councils to simply not kick out the gay leaders they have, and to not block new ones on the basis of their sexual orientation.

As a former camp counselor:

Seconding everything you said here. This dumb idea that gay men have some inclination to pedophilia has been disproven over and over and over and over AND OVER AND OVER again so many times, at this point seeing anyone who believes it is like seeing someone who thinks divining rods will help them find water.

"Would you be okay with a straight adult male leading teen girls on overnight camping trips?"

It's not a normal human impulse to be attracted to children, dude. I find it alarming that you think all men are just fighting back the urge to take advantage of kids and thus can't be trusted to be alone with them for any lengthy period of time.

As a former Boy Scout, I am so sick of the national organization dragging it's feet on this issue. It's a disgrace. Get it the fuck together, BSA! You should be better than this intolerant bullshit!