no, she canceled it when people protested. big difference!

this story doesn't involve a hospital, but I work for a healthcare company (in an office attached to many hospitals), and anyone who comes into contact with patients has to get one, yes.

did you dismiss my reply, or is disqus acting up again?

stop bending over backwards to blame poor people for a delivery service's incompetence. if someone pays for a service, they should receive it. what part of that statement do you take issue with?

not a very realistic solution for those of us who don't get paid enough to afford to do it that way. and not that I'm advocating full-on snotty, hysterical RUINED CHRISTMAS tantrums, but if a service guarantees on-time delivery, yeah, they should be able to provide that or provide reimbursement/compensation as a…

By ignoring them completely you solidify their belief that girls fake being nerds,

exactly. the poem format was an awful idea (and that's being kind), but I'm more than okay with them getting the message right and not victim-blaming once throughout the whole thing. that's not something you see a lot with assault PSAs.

Women are not as turned on by good-looking men as men are by good-looking women.

We are visually oriented and easily turned on

eh, my best friend in high school didn't know she was pregnant until she was almost six months along — she had a thyroid thing that caused her to skip periods for months at a stretch, so that was 'normal'; she was also really tiny (see aforementioned thyroid thing) and found it really difficult to gain weight, and…

but how are 'try to make women feel like they need to lose weight' and try to make women feel like they need to lose weight, but also make them shut up about it' meaningfully different? this new campaign certainly isn't 'better'.

thank you for spelling this out. the thought that so many people will skim this, freak out, and stop using a BCM that was otherwise fine for them is really irritating. please, jez, find someone who'll write science articles accurately and honestly, sans fearmongering!

ignore them, they're weaving in and out of all of these threads, fearmongering.

Victim blaming is justified if you're doing something really super extra stupid.

waitress is still in regular use, though, so.

you have done either a wonderful or terrible thing for me. thank you or curse you.

except that there was plenty of backlash against paul walker, but okay.

your loss!

whatever, sriracha haters, this'll look beautiful next to my bacon salt, sriracha popcorn, and bacon chocolate.

right, because websites should shut down every time something tragic happens.