Keep this little rule in mind when buying ANYTHING: just because that's the market rate, doesn't mean that's what it's worth. It occurs to me that if time is money, then money is time. We talk about money like its objective. What if that hotel room was worth 45 seconds of your time? A year? What if it was worth…

If you cure cancer, but lie to everyone that you went to MIT instead of finding it in a rainforest in order to get money from investors, that's still unethical. It's borrowing the authority of MIT's brand. And let's say you use your new found fame to start clinical trials of a malaria vaccine. Which you're unqualified…

TRevealing Dr. v's trans identity should never have been on the table. It's not related to the story, which is that the inventor lied about her credentials. She may have committed suicide anyway, but she might not have, had she known the reporter wouldn't out her trans status. He deserves to be shamed and reprimanded…

Mindy Kaling is also a size 8 and refers to herself (in her current size-8 body) as a "Chubo."

She said they were beautiful AND fat. Those 2 states are not mutually exclusive.

I keep getting compared to Ver Farmiga (or "Norma Bates," or "that woman in Up in the Air," etc. I swear I know her full filmography by now). I find it incredibly annoying, not least of all because I DON'T actually look like her. She's beautiful, yes, so i know its meant in a complimentary way, but I want to look like…

I bet the top 1% of women make it into hedge funds, but maybe the top 10% of men. Those women had to work harder to get to the same place. They're better because the barriers to entry are higher for women, not because a vagina is a magical money box. I'm a big believer in the idea that in any broad social group…

Not to sound sexist, but he's a dude. I bet he could have taken her in a fight. If the genders had been switched, I'd find this more believable. It might not have been a conscious thought, but it sounds to me like he found her blackness threatening.

My understanding is that the Bachdel test is a litmus test for female presence in film. It doesn't judge the depictions of those presentations, it just provides a baseline. If there were more women in Star Wars, then Leia would have spoken with them about the rebellion as a matter of course.

Somewhat related question: should I be pronouncing "Doge" as "doggy" ?

This kind of morphing f word definitions is why I avoid the wore "nonplussed" (it means confused, people!). Petite means small in height, and if you want to be pedantic about it, small in width. You can go around calling yourself petite all you want, but people will think you are ignorant. Have at it.

I immediately thought of the bribes Barney gave Robin to do obscene acts on the local news on How I Met Your Mother. Maybe someone paid her to make BJ motions on air?

As a white woman, black is black and Latino/a is Latino/a. I don't think lighter skinned POCs are only a less black or a less Latino. I try to be racially sensitive (aka inoffensive) regardless of how light or dark someone from another ethnicity is. White people don't really differentiate between pink, milk white, or…

Nurses and other health care professionals are notorious for underestimating their own risk of disease. My mother was a cardiac nurse for 40 years, yet she did not realize she was having a heart attack. She passed off her chest pain as gas. She was also one of the best nurses on her floor, at least according to the…

Tylenol is legitimately not good for you. It burns out your liver. NO pharmacist ever recommends it over ibuprofen, but unfortunately that's the only over-the-counter painkiller that works for some people.

Flu shots have one or two strains of the flu that the CDC guessed last year would be dominant strain this season. There are hundreds of flu strains. The virus mutates at a rapid rate. I'm not saying this nurse was right for refusing the vaccine, I just don't think a company should require its employees to receive…

Flu shots have one or two strains of the flu that the CDC guessed last year would be dominant strain this season. There are hundreds of flu strains. The virus mutates at a rapid rate. I'm not saying this nurse was right for refusing the vaccine, I just don't think a company should require its employees to receive…

You, sir, have never met a true psychopath. They are born, not made. Some people might be "on the spectrum" but a true blooded sociopath has no empathy. If their mom, who has always treated them well, dies of cancer and you say "I'm so sorry for your loss" they'll say "she's the one who died not me." they truly do not…

My brother and I like to find creative ways to insult each other using Emojis. I've discovered that it's probably the most inoffensive way to tell someone to eat shit or to say that you will dance on their grave. So what I'm saying is that you may have been receiving cutesy death threats.

Emojis are vague depictions of actual human facial expressions which are actually highly sophisticated and involve as many as 30+ muscles. I didn't realize that :p meant sarcasm for the longest time. These things are hooghly socialized. The more you use them, the better you are at using them. Has she actually proven…