Lauren Davis's saved articles

One of the main points of this article was that not very long ago, women WERE obligated to do domestic work because they were women, and they weren’t allowed to do anything else. Have fun with your bread.
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I’m not sure why some feminists feel the need to mock domestic things like ironing, cooking, baking, etc. Read more

Actually the flu is that big of a deal. 21 kids have died already this season. Also, 6.8% of ALL deaths reported by 122 cities across the US were due to flu. In my city alone, 21 people were admitted to the ICU and are in a critical state due to the flu just in the last week. Read more

Every time I read an article explaining how white people who think they are helping really aren't... this is the response from so many white people. "I don't know what to do then, maybe I should just do nothing?" If we stay inactive with the excuse of "not accidentally making things worse," we're letting the racist… Read more

Fuck gaters. Read more

Except when they post your physical address online along with the death threats. Don't act like people should have thicker skins, that's more than fucked up enough for me to leave my home. Read more

Yep! I used to work in a small office that dealt in diamonds and gold purchases. They had one Yelp review that was visible and everyone I worked with complained about it because they claimed Yelp was filtering all their reviews. So I looked at the filtered reviews and they were all five-star reviews from the girls who… Read more

If you actually click through the links to the original SF Gate article, you will see that there is NO evidence that Yelp has ever altered reviews. Read more

Hate on terrible reviewers all you want, but what do you mean by "Yelp's extortionist business practices"? Businesses cannot pay to alter or remove negative reviews, ever. While there are always a few wacko reviews, Yelp provides an amazing service when visiting a new city or neighborhood. Read more

Readers deserve an explanation. This is the cereal discussion we had before Marchman went rogue.

For everyone who's rending their clothes and lamenting "OMG...The books...THE BOOKS!!": You do realize that (literally) tons of books get pulped every year in the publishing industry, as remainders, right? And that old books get sold by the yard for people to use as decorations in McMansions? Have you really _never_… Read more

OMG. My favorite part of the listing:

But we love her dearly over at io9. *evil grin* Read more

Lauren is a bad influence. Read more

Krysos, how can you possibly support that statement? Let's take voting in the U.S. as an example: Read more

Kryosos, I'm starting to be fascinated by this topic. So I did some Googling. Read more