Education should be (truly) free, schools should be cathedals and good teachers treated like rock stars.

Yeah, I'm a socialist.

Brazilian blowouts use high amounts of formaldehyde. I'm stunned by the high amount of emotion in the comments.

Not to mention all the shaming of the women who choose to have the formaldehyde treatment. WTF? I'm amazed at people who call themselves feminists who are 100% behind a woman's right to do what she wants with her body...as long as "what she wants" is reproductive-related. (And even then, that's kind of narrowly defined. Abortion? A woman's right? Give birth? A woman's right -- *IF* it isn't a multiple birth like the octuplets or the Duggars.) Anyway, it's cool to control your reproduction but god forbid you want to change your hair. Then you're all up in the patriarchy, collaborating and shit.

Whatever.

I for one do not want people handing out drugs to the teachers and throwing under-things at them during lessons. Please take note of this difference between Cash and myself.

I for one do not want people handing out drugs to the teachers

Not even ibuprofen?

and throwing under-things at them during lessons.

How about gift certificates to Wacoal?

Then you're all up in the patriarchy, collaborating and shit.

Someone actually commented that it wasn't her fault that she had to change her hair--that it was the patriarchy's.

Hello? No, it is your fault, honestly, if fault is to be assigned. Or, more responsibly, it is your decision. At the very least, own it.

Somewhere there is a very hierarchical organization called "Patriarchy, Inc." It has many departments, including the Department of Ladies' Hair, which is run by an old white guy, of course....

I asked my friend who was a sous chef in a high end restaurant about sending meat back if it's not cooked to order and he said, in his experience, chefs have no problem with this. It's expected.

I once had to send a steak back for longer cooking twice in a Peoria restaurant. I don't know if the chef was just being extra-thorough the second time or if he was trying to overcook to show me what for. But while I'm sure the end result would have horrified some people with its dryness it tasted great to me. No one in a restaurant has ever overcooked meat so much that I wouldn't eat it.

I have heard of a local chef who refuses to cook beef more than medium (and will spitefully serve it rare to people who request medium-well or well), but needless to say I won't be ordering steak there.

I for one do not want people handing out drugs to the teachers

Um, as a former teacher, I think that's a great idea. Valium, Proxac, Xanax...

The underpants, they can keep. Unless it's new fancy French lingerie in my size.

Anyone else having a hard time picturing Paul Newman with a Brazilian blowout?

I wish my brain had just stopped at the blowout.

I posted something about this before. I don't know if this article is about the same study or a new one....

World of hurt: Minorities get less treatment for their pain

I don't know if it would be helpful for ita to forward this to various doctors, etc. Maybe it'd just make them mad....