Well, I mean I totally hear you on the struggles/costs of higher ed, but it’s an honorary art degree. He’s been working in the arts (music anyway) his whole career and he’s had massive success. It’s not like they gave him a PhD in engineering or something. He got rich and famous because of his songwriting, which is an…

Considering I willingly put various types of poison into my body on a regular basis and pay for the privilege, I cannot in good conscious pretend to give a flying fuck about organic food and whether or not my peaches are filled with pesticides.

Wizard schools are totally regional, man. Big educational catchment area. Magical bureaucracies worked that shit out ages ago.

I would of course break the “unbroken” cup, and feel like the worst human being on Earth. THANKS, YOKO.

I used to think this way about hiring someone to clean my house. I thought, I should be able to do this myself, and who am I to say I’m too good to clean a toilet? I then read a book set in Africa where one of the characters gets some financial success and states that it is basically her obligation to get a maid, even…

I DONT NEED YOU! I can be my friend myself.

Hey, don’t demean me with your friend request; I don’t need your pity!

People who LIKE working in beauty service?! But don’t you know that service jobs like that are DEMEANING?! Those people who claim to like it obviously don’t know better!

After coming back and reading this whole thread, it’s pretty clear to me that the OP is the type of person/feminist who believes that most service work is enforcing a horrible caste system and that anything a woman does to make herself look or feel more attractive is basically playing into the patriarchy. I mean,…

How is this a matter of dignity when looking at the job itself? The lady that does my pedicure quit her low wage job at a high end spa, and started on her own. Not that she needed to continue with spa services (she has an associates degree in business), but she actually genuinely enjoys doing nails. She enjoys coming…

I don’t understand the idea of a type of work being “demeaning.” What does that even mean?

And I’m going to make it more complicated than that for you.

Let’s say we all quit getting our mani/pedis. What do you think would happen to all these women who are working in them? They are already living on the margins; what would you expect to happen to them then? I’m not saying this as any sort of “job-creator”…

A bowl??!! So fancy! I guess your own hands can’t get a little dirty.

Maybe 3-4 times a year I go and get my nails done. I’ve tried doing it myself in the past but honestly? I do not have the fine motor skills; I actually cannot do it. So I either pay someone to do a service I cannot do myself (much like cutting my hair) or I go without (which is my default).

I don’t know about you, but I reject all unnecessary luxuries. “Pamper” myself? Piffle. I never eat out; I make all of my own meals from lentils I’ve grown myself. Nice clothing? Some people don’t even HAVE clothing, you heartless yuppie. I make my own dresses out of discarded newspapers I find on the metro. I don’t…

It’s only that way if you’re condescending enough to think that doing someone else’s nails is lowly, demeaning work that doesn’t deserve respect.

To insinuate that somebody doesn’t care about basic human treatment because they get an occasional manicure is comical and a bizarre suspension of disbelief.

Yes, I did read the article, but thanks for adding a layer of condescension to your self-righteousness. What you apparently are unable to understand is that there is a huge difference between the practice of getting a manicure/pedicure itself and the deeply unethical and slave like conditions that dominate the…

I don’t get my nails done, but I don’t see how it’s any different than other salon services.

I read the whole article and kept wondering how they could afford their school and licenses before I realized it wasn’t a state requirement there. In CO and NV, all technicians are licensed. A spa pedi is $30-$35.