I’d liken it to living in a conservative country (or conservative state, for that matter!). You were raised in it. You love the food, the customs, the history, the diversity. You are dismayed at the leadership’s stances and maybe speak out against them/try to reform and change things from within. But you’d never move…

haha Macy’s. Last year. I love them too. It can be hard to find ones in breathable materials, though! Target does 100% polyester ones and I’m just like, “Why?”

Jeans aren’t Business casual which is usually considered to be the minimum for professional clothing for white collar work.

None of them by me did, sadly. I guess it depends. I had looked into picturesque warehouses, too, and it was the same deal — “Your pictures will look great, but you have to bring literally everything in and hire someone to clean it out.”

None of the barns by me had an all-inclusive experience. They were all BYO chairs/tables/sound system/cleaning staff. And for most of them, we had to buy our own event insurance. I was way too lazy for that noise.

Was thinking the same thing. “Rustic” barn weddings are super *in* right now. I wanted one, until I realized how much it would cost/how much work it would be to haul all the chairs, tables, food, sound system to a picturesque barn. But I still want one.

I used to fly Midwest Airlines (pioneer of the warm cookies) before it merged with Frontier. At the time, Frontier put out a press release saying, “Don’t worry guys, we’re keeping the warm cookie service.” But then I flew Frontier, and that cookie was COLD. And then they announced they were cancelling the cookies…

I woke up from a nap on one of their flights as the flight attendants were coming up the aisles offering applications for the Frontier credit card. That’s right — hawking financial products to a captive audience. Frontier sure is classy.

This idea is genius and might just save the world.

That said, all of my friends were in the same class the next year and really loved the experience because they were doing it together and thought it was so much fun.

My reply was not to the post, but to a commenter who was saying that the real world was a free-for-all, speech-wise, and college students need to be prepared for that. I countered by saying, actually, no. It isn’t.

The question of *how* students can form safe spaces is an interesting one, I admit. On my campus, rooms and building could be booked for pretty much anything and the group could form their own rules for the time they spent in that space. I think obvious public spaces and already-used spaces (quad, cafeteria, student…

Yes. I was speaking more to the idea that it’s false to say that the real world is a free-for-all and college students need to get used to that. It’s more accurate to say there are various codes of conduct in the real world, many even more strict than the “rules” people get up in arms about on college campuses.

Thanks for replying to this. I just made a similar reply. I did a grad project on a subculture that allowed everyone in, but still used the term “safe space” and had a list of rules everyone had to follow to make everyone feel safe in that space.

Depends on how you define it. My campus had a “safe space” (used that wording) for LGBT people AND allies. A group I’m part of advertises their gatherings as a “safe space” for women AND their spouses/fathers/male children (ie, you need to have a woman member get you in). I’ve seen various activist groups call their…

Not exclusively talking about laws. Talking about companies determining what’s acceptable in their workplace and enforcing it not through the legal system, but internally.

My alma mater gave a an honorary degree to Phyllis effing Schlafly. As much as I hate that wretched crone, I think it’s important to confront her toxic ideas. So, while I thought those who wanted to ban her from graduation went too far, I definitely supported the op-eds against her and the students who stood and…

No. Nobody said that.

That’s how you read my post? I don’t feel entitled to it, but I appreciate the efforts my workplace makes to hold everyone to high professional standards. And I support that by continuing to work for them. I’ve worked at places that didn’t have these policies and then took my talents elsewhere as soon as I could.

I think people go too far when they try to get the college to cancel the speaker, but, by all means, make signs, protest at the venue and, most importantly, use the Q&A session at the end as an opportunity to troll the living shit out of them.