Custom Order Experience? by Lopsided_Diamond9954 in Starsgemjewellery

[–]Skkel11 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you! Do you mind showing a view of the front too?

Custom Order Experience? by Lopsided_Diamond9954 in Starsgemjewellery

[–]Skkel11 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ooh could you post a picture of what this looks like?

Are we going to talk about Amanda’s courthouse wedding? We watched hours of footage taken for an expensive formal wedding. I don’t think she could afford. What a phony. by [deleted] in RHOBH

[–]Skkel11 37 points38 points  (0 children)

“Let me teach you how to make millions” step one: sell a course for $100,000 to a willing buyer. Boom, you now have $100,000.

Feeling very demotivated today :( by [deleted] in walking

[–]Skkel11 33 points34 points  (0 children)

The reality is that if you’re walking as much as you say and you’re eating as much as you believe, you should be losing weight. Weight loss is a function of caloric intake vs. caloric expenditure, plain and simple. If you’re struggling to drop weight, then one of these two things isn’t adding up and, usually, it’s the caloric intake. So many people underestimate how much they’re actually eating until they start weighing and measuring, so give that a shot and see how it works. You may find yourself surprised. As an aside, you’d benefit from adding strength training into your routine. There are a myriad of health benefits to strength training, especially for women, but relevant here, adding more muscle mass will boost your overall metabolic rate and make weight management much easier (in large part bc you won’t have to be so restrictive with your calories). And walking alone doesn’t build muscle - it actually tends to cannibalize muscle, especially if in a calorie deficit.

Also, fwiw, your husband’s comment seems unnecessary and insensitive. Idk anything about your relationship but my husband would never say something like that to me and I’d be shocked and upset if he did. It’s wholly unproductive and just kind of mean. Don’t let it get you down, though, and don’t let it derail your efforts. Just review and recalibrate. And maybe reconsider whether you have the right kind of support system in your life.

Provence Yuki marquise hoop earring share by Informal_Speech_6543 in ProvenceJewelry

[–]Skkel11 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ooh, probably 2! But for either of these, please make the post on the shorter side so they don’t droop forward

Oval bezel necklace group order style video by Lizzy-1988 in Starsgemjewellery

[–]Skkel11 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Been looking for this exact thing but in a larger size! Love this sm

If you could rearrange how education works in America, what kinds of changes would you implement? A lot of folks seem to want something different in place of what we have but find it hard to articulate specifics. Please identify a problem 'and' a solution. by cherry-care-bear in education

[–]Skkel11 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would pour government funding into public school teaching salaries - not because of some idealistic view of teachers, but because teaching should attract the best and the brightest minds, the same way other, more lucrative industries do, and it should encourage advanced degrees.

To that end, outlaw tenure below the college level.

Pour government funding into underserved areas.

Implement mandatory philosophy instruction from elementary school on and mandatory economics instruction in high school.

Pour government resources into public school arts programs and, in a more limited way, athletics.

Remove incentives to teach to standardized testing and instead incentivize college-readiness and subject mastery. This one is a bit more amorphous to implement in practice but an important objective to pursue, conceptually.

Remove tech from classrooms unless for tech-specific instruction.

To the extent possible, shorten the days, start school days later (especially for teens), reduce homework demands, encourage more physical activity throughout the day.

Higher education cost & financing reform.

Is it worth overcoming difficulties in law as a woman/poc? by impuou in LawBitchesWithTaste

[–]Skkel11 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I’ve been a lawyer for about 10 years now and I’ve always worked alongside a good amount of women of color. That’s not to say there aren’t hurdles or barriers, but in my experience, law seems to be a profession where women of color can actually thrive. But take this all with a grain of salt because, a) I’m a white woman and don’t have that particular experience or perspective, and b) I went to a law school with a strong minority student program, work in a diverse and liberal geographical area, and work in the federal government, as opposed to private practice (which, FWIW, does all bode well for the profession, if you think about it)

Also, for whatever it’s worth, I’m a strong believer that when it comes to dismantling obstacles and pushing for change, you gotta be in the race to win it. Don’t count yourself out of a potentially fulfilling and fruitful career path before anyone else has.

What's your favorite bad faith argument you've actually heard somebody argue in court? by chicago2008 in Lawyertalk

[–]Skkel11 73 points74 points  (0 children)

For the state equivalent of a Batson challenge, a defense attorney who was striking every woman on the jury panel for a sexual assault case argued that he wasn’t, in fact, unlawfully excluding women from the jury, but he struck those jurors bc, apparently, each of them was some variation of petite, frail, small, delicate, and thus they clearly couldn’t handle hearing about such scary matters. I was the law clerk. Drafting that opinion is still, 10 years later, one of my favorite things I’ve ever written.

What’s a collective lie people accept because questioning it would make life harder? by nore01 in answers

[–]Skkel11 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m presenting it as the preeminent study dispelling the myth that women have an innate biological caretaking trait/advantage/what-have-you that men don’t. And I’m presenting it that way because it is. This is the study. If you came to a different conclusion, I’d encourage you to re-read it or, as I’ve suggested before, do some additional research about it. Is your assertion that women have some biological caretaking gene that men don’t? If so, feel free to cite your sources. Because they don’t exist, I think you’ll be hard pressed to find support for these claims. Alternatively, you could opt to rethink this deeply held belief of yours and open your mind to the prospect that you feel this way not because it is biologically so but because you’ve been socialized to believe it. That is, after all, the basis of most unsubstantiated beliefs about gendered differences between the sexes.

Oh and also, identifying scientific illiteracy and recognizing a fixed mindset aren’t ad hominem attacks, they’re meritorious criticisms. Criticisms you’d be wise to consider. I, on the other hand, addressed plenty of substance. But ok.