Agreed, and I’m worried that the US is going to turn into Gilead...

It is not racist to condemn discrimination within another culture (in this case, against women.) I’m sick of reading rape story after rape story from India. Having been there, I can attest that the general cultural attitude considers women to be second-class citizens. Obviously there are individual exceptions, many…

Aside from the racism on display in the video, the other concerning aspect is how long the police took to respond. The person who filmed the incident said that the police took 45 minutes to arrive, even after several customers called separately. I wonder how long it would take for them to respond if the person being…

There was a great podcast being produced not too long ago by a journalist who had grown up within the Children of God cult—she called the podcast Cultish and it is fantastic. I wish she were still making episodes! If you’re looking for others who grew up there, that podcast might be a good starting point...

Chopra’s experience squares completely with my assessment of how women are generally regarded in India, having recently been there. I’ve actually been somewhat down since I got back and this is a big reason why.

Gosh, it would be great if people who aren’t physicians would stop trying to practice medicine.

I don’t think Djokovich is going full Trump (though that did make me LOL.) I read his word-salad commentary as “Sweet Jeebus, just ask me about the tournament.” He needs to either obtain some more media coaching or decide to just fight in his own weight class during interviews.

I learned a bunch from your excellent post but will also admit that it gave me the wiggins. Also...the ladies whose braids are inside-out...are they considered to be like rebels or something? Like the inside-out braid is the equivalent of full-sleeve tats? Are they the Badasses of the FLDS? I really want this to be…

I would call this quiverfull-chic but it shows way too much ankle.

I too seek this image in vain

I will admit to being conflicted about this. I have immediate family members who “legally” emigrated and it took them years, with a huge amount of hassle and uncertainty—enough that it made them resent people who do not proceed through legal channels. On the other hand, the plight of Syrian refugees and several visits…

This is the first time I’ve ever though “shit, I need a Twitter.” And isn’t it interesting how a presidential candidate uses an international tragedy less than a day after its occurrence to further his political agenda, revealing his severe compassion deficit instead?

I thought it was just me—I too am a human bowel-stimulant, but my ability seems to transcend patient age groups. (May yours remain limited to cute newborns!)

I think running the story is a great idea, but you can’t draw attention to the issues faced by the nursing profession without discussing the internal issues as well. One of the internal issues is certainly the nurse-physician dynamic, which is a gender-stratified interaction and therefore appropriate for the scope of…

No, I’m with you on this one. I think this is going to require a cultural shift on the parts of both physicians and nurses to fix.

In my residency, it was a well-known but unspoken fact that the female interns were generally treated like shit. Fortunately, you could get around this if you kissed enough ass. If the male interns were cute, they had a great time. I think this was more of a function of where I did residency though—I don’t see that…

I heart this so much. Though in defense of the nurses I have worked with who have been rad, I think that it might need a #notallnurses :)

I feel for you—I got married a few months ago and I didn’t go about it in the healthiest way possible. At one point, I finally said in the middle of a dress shop, “Yeah, as long as I lose weight and change my hair color and bleach my teeth and fix my skin and essentially change everything about me, I’ll be a beautiful…

That is excellent and I wish I were that quick on the draw! Someone else suggested that I compliment him on his costume of a nosy asshole :)

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