CANADIAN IS NOT A RACE, IT'S A NATIONALITY

We never said that women don't get harassed, Feminazi. It is a very real problem, I agree, but I also don't think that you can speak for all women. There are plenty of women (the ones who say "I'm a woman and I think feminism is stupid") who wouldn't say they're mistreated. Whether they actually are is debatable, but saying that all of anything does anything is a logical fallacy, because you don't know all women and you can't speak for their experiences. I'm a feminist myself, and I definitely agree that something needs to change. My grandfather molested me for years, and until he took it farther, I didn't even realize he was doing something wrong. I thought it was completely normal, even though it made me uncomfortable. My best friend was raped when she was just 14, and everyone accused her of lying. I will never say there isn't a problem, but I will say that I don't know about all women, and I can't speak for them, just for a great number of women.

Or wearing nice clothing because he likes seeing her in it? Breast implants to make their boobs more appealing?

And don't forget, there are women who abuse men too. There are female rapists and pedophiles.

I think it's been established that the point of a tip is to let someone know they did a good job. The point is: there are tons of people who don't tip even if the server is polite, helpful, and talkative, simply because they don't want to spend the money.

How would you tell someone that they're fat, then? Because I think it has nothing to do with being happy so much as you actually are more likely to cause them to binge eat when they feel ashamed, or become anorexic which is just as bad if not worse.

It's true that being fat is unhealthy, but being an ignorant asshole is way worse.

The restaurants probably aren't going to change their wages regardless. We need a law change, not a bunch of people deciding, hey the way to do this is clearly to cause waitresses to starve and freeze. They don't pay them more because they're cheap, they're certainly not going to fork over more money just for the hell of it. And even if they do, it certainly won't happen before there are problems for wait staff.

Um, no. Not at all. Are we just supposed to let people not have heating and electricity until a law manages to get changed? (Which, by the way, in the US, takes ages if it gets changed at all).

If you have terrible service, then don't feel pressured, but in America, I feel that if you had decent service, you should always tip, and that's just my opinion, but it is how I feel.

I agree that people who are upwards of 400 pound aren't doing everything they can to remain healthy, I also know that many of the people who most people call "fat" are perfectly healthy individuals on the upper end of the weight scale but still in range of a healthy body weight (according to doctors, not just a social movement). I agree that people who are truly obese should turn their lives around. I do not agree that you have the ability to do shit about it. Therefore, I do not agree that it is ever acceptable to make fun of people for being fat. That doesn't mean we should just allow everyone to be fat, that means I believe that educating people on how to be healthy, happy, and still eat food that tastes good is an actual solution that would actually help.

I feel that, if you're living somewhere where they pay as poorly as America, and where food is much cheaper for more of it, you should absolutely feel pressured to tip, but that's just my opinion.

You could eat at home or at a fast food restaurant much cheaper than you can eat at a dine in restaurant and then you don't have to worry about tipping, Mgoveia. Then it'll help everyone involved.

We should leave other people's business to them, and not be an asshole. Are you a doctor, daynut? Do you know what a healthy weight looks like, or do you just think that anyone who is over 120 pounds is fat and unhealthy? No one who is obese is under the impression that they're the image of health, and you calling them fat or whatever else you might say is not going to change how they act. There are deeper problems there than not knowing they're fat, and unless you know them personally you should mind your own damn business. Teach your children and your friends to be healthy, and if you really want to do something about it EDUCATE YOURSELF and take the effort to find actual answers, like making exercise regimens that are easy to keep, or diets that taste good and can be maintained.

You weren't, don't worry about it, but it's really not something I'm going to just deal with, which is why I post things like this. I do blame them for thinking that just because adults pay bills they know everything, because it leads a lot of kids to thinking they don't matter. I find it a little insulting that adults wouldn't listen to a word I said, especially when they couldn't even understand half the homework I was required to do. The people who get away with "because I said so" and "parents know best" for years accuse us of thinking we know everything, and it really bothers me. Usually, it wasn't even my parents who did this to me. It was teachers and my parents' friends.

... Yeah, I'm not sure if that was intentional or not, I'm going to assume yes.

I do go easy on her, I do what she says, I watch my brother several days a week, supply much of my own food, and help out wherever I can, but I in turn expect her to know that I am a human being and deserve respect, as do other teenagers. I expect her to know that she's not perfect just because she happened to get knocked up and give birth, and she's not right about everything. I still love her very much, but that doesn't change the fact that she is a hypocrite - and maybe I'm one too. What I don't do is go easy on people who say things like "since you know everything, why don't you __". I know as well as those people that I don't know everything, but it seems to me that they think they do, and even if they don't, they're kind of acting like stuck up snobs.

years, they know what they're getting into with another kid, and they should be prepared to handle it, not just yell every time anything goes slightly wrong or a kid misbehaves, especially since she yells at my sister for yelling.

I'm sorry it seems that way, but you don't know my mom. She's the kind of woman who, when my little sister asked her to roll her window up because there was sun shining directly on her and it was hot, my mom (whose window was closed so /she/ didn't have sun shining on her) locked the windows.
I know that I haven't had to deal with the stress of raising a child yet, and I don't know how that will ever effect me. I haven't had to support myself on my own yet, and I don't know what that's like. I know that things are hard for my mom, and I try my best to make things easier for her, but that doesn't change that she says one thing one day and something else the next. "Come talk to me if your brother is doing something he shouldn't" "Deal with him yourself". She yells all the time, and yes, I get that she's stressed, but she is also the one who made the decision to have three children and I feel like when someone makes that kind of a decision, especially after raising one child for 19

What's the title, though?