That’s a smidge unfair. I went to college in a city and few students had cars. We had no way of transporting stuff to a donation center. We had no time to donate it, either. Dorms wanted us out the night of our last final. Often, I only had three or four hours to pack while running on little sleep and little food. My…

I believe the point is that commenters are greatly exaggerating the cost of the gear left behind, and it makes them look petty. We get it, you hate Frats. But a $30 tent split between 3-6 people isn’t the giant expense people are making it out to be. Wasteful? Yes. But not as wasteful as a $300 tent.

Having read Jezebel for as long as I have, I know it wasn’t a joke.

Was the last sentence necessary? First, it assumes all people getting married are supporting the wedding industrial context. Second, it makes the final takeaway of a piece on wage stagnation, shrinking of the middle class, and affordable housing inventory about weddings.

I’m not at all surprised. Alcohol interventions targeting college students tend to be fairly ageist.

I am eternally jealous that this guy 1) got to have a vasectomy two days after deciding he wanted one and 2) seemingly didn’t have to prove his spouse was into the idea or bank sperm beforehand “just in case.”

I agree. Store cards can actually be the best. Many stores allow you to pay the balance on the card at the register. So you buy a $15 shirt for $13 because the card gives you a discount. Then you pay the $13 balance on the card with cash or debit, interest free because it hasn’t been a billing cycle yet. Your credit…

I agree. The “credit cards are the devil” mentality prevents young people from building credit and learning money management skills. Everyone will eventually need a credit card, so best to just learn early what they should be used for and what a good offer is.

Fellow Californian here to say that our schools were deeply segregated, too (in the late aughts). They were economically segregated which worked out so they were pretty racially segregated too. Two of the five high schools were perhaps 80% white, two were about 70% Hispanic, and one was fairly diverse. Encatchment…

I’ll out myself as one of the people who called the uterine-transplant woman selfish. The difference for me is that the uterine transplant was all about “experiencing pregnancy” (her words). Penis transplants are about having a sex life (and, therefore, being more likely to find a long-term partner). The uterus…

Typically, I’d agree. When I pass, I want my whole body to be donated for organ recovery and research when I’m gone. BUT I don’t want any part of me to be used for research on fertility treatments, and I don’t want my uterus to be given as a transplant. I’m morally opposed to fertility treatments and don’t want any…

I remember Stewart had Louis CK on his show right after that Daniel Tosh Laugh Factory kerffufle, specifically to talk about the incident. They both agreed rape jokes directed at hecklers are a-ok and that the backlash was ruining comedians’ autonomy or freedom of expression or some such non-sense. It really changed…

Are you saying all twenty-something white women have trust funds or otherwise live off their parents? Or that no twenty-something white woman makes below a living wage or has dependents? I agree twenty-something white women have a lit of economic privilege compared to their minority peers, but your generalizations…

Anyone know where we can send our strongly-worded letters so MSNBC will fire him? Any online petitions?

I have a question: how in the heck do you get permanently out of the grays on here?

This may be fighting over nuance, but some women *want* anonymity, because they don’t want any chance of reunification with the child. TLC has that new show about tracking down birth parents, I imagine some women are trying to avoid that situation.

In such a situation, you could go to a police station, report your baby as kidnapped, and (if a baby has been put in a baby box recently) ask to be DNA matched with the baby. You don’t need a birth certificate to prove a kid is yours.

I remember the Nebraska fiasco. I don’t have a problem with increasing Safe Haven age limits, but I can understand that it might be logistically hard to help people give up an older child while retaining their anonymity which, to me, is a big reason people choose Safe Haven or traditional adoption.

I agree with everything you said. The whole “if it’s too easy, more people will do it” reasoning is ridiculous. That’s what people say about abortion.

That’s actually not an arbitrary number. The replacement rate for the U.S. is about 2.3 kids/couple. Meaning, if most couples have 2 and some have 3, a generation from now, we’ll have the exact same number of people. The “0.3" accounts for people who die before reproducing, couples who only have one kid, etc.