VS is so bad about this, they will just get you into the closest size that they carry. I can see, they don't wanna turn away customers but they're doing people a disservice.

It's absolutely shortsighted for VS and all other clothing manufacturers to continue to stock such a limited range of sizes. I could see 20 years ago, but now, in the internet age, where you wouldn't necessarily have to *stock* 50 different sizes and colors and patterns at every location...each store could have a few…

I'm lucky that my state has no-excuse absentee voting (that is you can vote early in person / by mail just 'cause you feel like it, you don't have to prove to some county clerk that you're disabled or have acute claustrophobia or whatever). With my work schedule and location there's no way I could've voted in person…

What a...you don't get food stamps because you can't "budget your money." If you make below $X, you have less than $Y in assets, and you have Z number of dependents, you get food stamps.

If she really cared about it that much, she'd have applied to Yale instead.

...but she started it!

I could see an argument for totally race-blind admissions—where admissions people don't see any racially-identifying info (including applicant's name, hometown, HS), and ALSO getting rid of all legacies and preferential treatment. Making the application process 100% about grades & extracurriculars (sports, music,…

I have very strong political views and I participate in politics...but not at work. It's like religion, it's too divisive of a topic.

I think this might even be the law—that a company can't ask you what you're doing with the time off as long as you have the time to take. My roommate works for Home Depot and it's the same way, he can call out any time no questions asked if he's got the days.

For sure it's probably 95% the cultural factors, not the clothes or the religion that's doing it.

Yo has anybody here not had a bad middle school experience? Everybody I've talked to IRL had an awful time...even people who were well-liked and popular were secretly miserable for non-school reasons. I was bullied and totally ostracised, literally I had zero friends in middle school (I had a few really good friends…

It's true that nothing is free but people in UK don't pay taxes like that, maybe you should be the one checking your facts. This "fact" that in UK & Canada they pay that kind of tax is just misinformation spread by people who are against healthcare reform. I would expect that their taxes would be higher than an…

There's so much judgement about what parents (especially moms!) should and shouldn't do, if someone wants to do art stuff with the placenta, or eat it, or whatever, I don't even care, as long as they don't say that everybody has to do that. And none of this stuff will hurt the baby.

I don't know how we can trust this man to make the important decisions that affect this country when he cannot even decide on basic, rudimentary issues such as: how tan do you want to be? Do you want your ears and neck to be as tan as your face? Which parts of your hair do you want to be grey and which parts do you…

Y'all need to define this better, what do you mean propositioned? Propositioned for sex? Like "hey baby come back to my apartment?" Because that's pretty rare. But getting asked out, hit on, flirted with, etc is pretty common for lots of women. I think the number is based on how "public" you are as in how many guys…

I don't get offended with flirtation in a non-threatening, not-rude way. Even if the dude is totally not my type I'm not gonna get all mad for no reason. Thanks but no thanks. But many....most? women have had bad experiences with strangers getting rude or being harassing so we are automatically wary of flirtation from…

I don't think everything is all about America, or the West. Having big eyes is a beauty standard in many cultures all around the world, throughout history. Think about all the beauty tricks that persons of all races do to make their eyes look bigger just with makeup / curling your lashes etc. Double eyelids make your…

***eta: we are using a pullup bar attached to a doorframe, so to start we're standing on the floor. My roomie heard somewhere that dangling pullups, where your arms start out completely straight, are bad for you so that's why we're doing it this way. I'm a woman who is both strong and light, and I can't do *any*…

I knew it! My (male) roommate and I got into a fitness competition, and I'm either tied or got him beat on everything else we're measuring, but he can outdo me in pullups five times over.

It all comes down to the racist, classist, sexist theory that low-income women have kids JUST to get welfare....because somehow people are getting rich off of welfare? Welfare / foodstamps vary by state, & maybe there are some loopholes that let people get a lot, but I have met people on welfare and they are…