katiejmbaker
Katie J.M. Baker
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Ok; now, I want to see a study specifically on people who are addicted to hate-reading. Read more

I've gotten multiple emails today from other former employees of his sharing stories from years past. Insane. Read more

Hah, do you know how many people have told me that? I have to admit, when I was doing research, I noticed that the menu looked delicious. Read more

I've wanted to write about sexual harassment in the restaurant industry for a while because I have a ton of friends who work at bars and restaurants and have told me the craziest stories — but no one ever wants to go on the record because they're afraid of losing their jobs. There's usually no one to report it too, Read more

What I want to know is: Why are so many Ron Paul fans hanging out at Hooters? Read more

I am obsessed with this story. What are the odds that I can catch my own thief someday? Read more

Right? I tweet about reproductive rights basically every day and Klout decides that I'm influential in SWEATER??? (Not even sweaters, plural? Jeez, give me some credit!) Read more

I agree that it was definitely a concern, but saying "women mainly went to college for one reason" when that obviously wasn't the case — solely to further your bullshit thesis — is bad, bad journalism. Read more

Wow. Can you tell us more about what happened? Not that I'm asking you to defend yourself — I'm just curious to hear the story behind why you were up there and how you got them removed. Read more

Re: how many more photos there are of women than of men — it's clearly not bias on behalf of the moderator (I don't think he's withholding photos of men), but illustrative of how both men and women rush to shame women before shaming men. Do you think it's because fewer women deal with betrayal by wanting to shame the Read more

It's truly ridiculous how little things have changed. Especially since I bet companies would get a ton of positive (or at least controversial) PR if they shook things up a bit. But no, they just keep getting more and more sexist a la Carl's Junior, Go Daddy, etc. Read more

I feel the same way. I'm a pretty approachable person, and so I've had some uneasy connections with people along the lines of the one in this piece. I never went to the authorities or anything, and as far as I know, the guys are living relatively normal lives. When do you know when a line has been crossed? Read more

I know, I know. Let's just take deep breaths and hope we can be friends with her some day. Read more

I agree, it's definitely VERY relevant and opens up a whole other can of worms — but my piece was already super long so I thought it would be more helpful to point people in the direction of Rosin's piece than try and tackle that complicated issue in my post, which is more about my experiences. Read more