Along the same lines as Becca's story about people making assumptions about educational backgrounds, I waited tables at an Italian chain restaurant that falls between Olive Garden and Macaroni Grill in terms of cost/quality the summer between college and law school. Our clientele was generally pretty decent, and as a…
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Linebacker? Homely? Mkay, no.
He Named Me Malala, a documentary about Malala Yousafzai directed by Davis Guggenheim will get a global release by…
YES. Rick+Michonne=4evah
This was one of the best season finales ever. I was on the edge of my seat. I was so happy to see Morgan back! At first when he started fighting those guys I thought he was blind. I thought for sure Daryl or Glenn were going to die. I totally want Rick and Michonne together.
"You don't get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion."
That video sounds more like the aftermath of said stroke.
Yeah, but if you play it backwards, it's an auctioneer selling priceless Satanic heirlooms.
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I am in no way shape or form a sexist
It's like when people were mad Rue was black in the first Hunger Games movie...despite the fact that she is described in the book as coming from a farm district that's predominantly black.
If you think you are in no way, shape or form a sexist after calling a 14 year old girl a slut, then you really need to re-educate yourself as to what sexism is.
That's because the register in her retail job does all the math for her.
Adding, about my father: I think he also always wanted to double-check himself. Later, as an adult dining with him, I found that he had a real horror at the spectre of perhaps accidentally undertipping. He always added more to what his tip calculator told him.
Even easier than that: download a free tipping app on to your phone. This is 2015, we have the technology.
"publicly shame" or "speak up?" I think here we have another example of unconscious bias.
The dude interrupting females thing is SO obvious to everyone who is not a dude. If I could have one wish its that I could get the men in my life to understand that one tiny infuriating constant thing that happens so that we can THEN discuss how sexism affects us all. But they are all (white, black, gay, straight,…