This is pretty low. A cover letter is supposed to help you show the hiring manager what you can bring to a new job, and this woman wants to use skills she's gained in the past to be a victim advocate in the future. This is probably an entry level job for her, or she'd be talkinga bout her criminal justice experience.…

I agree that international coordination of laws is necessary, I won't argue with that. I will say that I think it's questionably wise to leave this up to the poor countries to deal with. The changes that took place with regard to international adoption were in reaction to things that operated very problematically for…

Commercial surrogacy is governed by each state not the federal government. In reality there are 50 different sets of laws governing it in the U.S. For example it's illegal in NY but legal in Colorado.

I love this. Wealthy women who think of the poor as breeding stock. These are human beings, not chattel. This concept is why I have so many issues with charities and the adoption industry as it stands. "You're poor and obviously unfit to be a mother. This Christian couple just gave us 50K, so lets give your baby to…

The reform effort also needs to include safeguards for the reproductive rights of surrogates. I can easily imagine scenarios where the surrogate would want to abort (risk to her own health, for example) and the biological parents would be resistant, or where the parents would try to get the surrogate to sign away her…

I still can't get over the fact that the Australian guy is a known child molester.

I'm not personally comfortable with commercial surrogacy, and I have nothing but blind hot rage over that piece of shit Australian couple.

I don't want to blow his mind but I'm having trouble thinking of a non-racist way to think of "anti-colonialist" as an insult.

I KNOW I MEANT TO MENTION THAT TOO! SERIOUSLY WHAT THE FUCK. HOW CAN YOU POSSIBLY EQUATE SOCIALISM AND ANTI-COLONIALISM AT ALL. COLONIALISM HAS BEEN FIRMLY ESTABLISHED AS A TERRIBLE TERRIBLE THING.

Mostly because nobody else knows that you got it from a traditional Native artisan. You're walking down the street wearing your beautiful dreamcatcher earrings that you bought from a woman who made it herself, and others around you are tsk tsking you because you're appropriating from another culture.

I didn't say they wouldn't know what KKK meant. I'm sure every single one of them would in a sentence related to them.

I think American bars serving "Irish car bombs" is way more fucked up. That's a reference to recent/current events in international headlines, not an acronym for an organization that hasn't been a major news story in decades.

Question: do you think the average Krispy Kreme employee in Bumfuck, Nebraska, can name the last 6 British Prime Ministers off the top of his/her head? Do you think they're familiar with the history of, say, Apartheid in South Africa, and familiar with the acronyms of organisations on both sides of that struggle? Do…

Most do know about KKK, but I just think that they were not thinking. But I don't think it is an excuse, it reminds me of when I was in US a lot of people were serving Irish car bombs and they didn't realize or care that is offensive, not everyone needs to know what is offensive in other countries but when you show…

a kimono is legit art, so I think you're in the clear.

I think Vagabondella has a point of how to do it. Also, I think it is important to understand the meaning behind the item you are getting. For example, a lot of beadwork tells stories or has special symbolism. Knowing and understanding what it means shows that you respect the culture where it comes from.

If you'd asked, you'd find that most feminists consider circumcision a dumb-ass practice which is not in line with our overall theme of consent.

I took a quick look at the medical literature and was surprised to find that there's no common surgical practice recommended for foreskin restoration. Considering we can do organ and tissue transplants and full-blown sex reassignment surgery, this seems like a pretty easy surgical procedure to develop.

It's kind of RIGHT THERE IN THE TITLE.

Disagree. I've been there done that so I DO understand having a narcisstic parent... all this does is invite more drama. Her parents will now show this everywhere and show what a messed up psycho daughter they have (that's how they will frame it, anyway). Ignoring them entirely, making sure the rest of the family…