Right? Like the sentence about people going back to retrieve their eggs is referencing a statistic about live births. That has nothing to do with how many retrieved their eggs and gave it a shot. *bangs head on desk*

I recently did IVF. The day of my egg retrieval, I was teetering far too close to the hormone levels that would result in OHSS, so my doctor made the decision that we would fertilize, then freeze immediately, and see what’s up in a month or so when my ovaries were a less scary size.

I did a whole bunch of IVF stuff this year, and I can tell you that 20-25% is not bad. 2 healthy people having unprotected sex at the right time only have a 25% chance of getting pregnant (what the gyno told me). Also, embryos are easier to thaw than eggs, so if you have a partner, get them fertilized first. I have a…

omg. but didn’t a commenter (was it you?) suggest that the way out of the jane/taylor DNA snafu conundrum would be if jane had a twin?

If Mastermind Jane turns out to be Amnesia Jane’s twin, I’m going to hurt some people.

If that’s what’s happening, I feel like it shouldn’t even be called Jezebel. It was a good name for a feminist site but as a gossip site it sounds like shame.

Maybe we should all choose to interpret it not as denial but as them taking a damn the man approach to the memo until absolutely forced to think otherwise?

Jez is now the hub for all things gossip, didntcha know?

:) ...and to all the idiots who are calling me a democrat, saying we need a third party, stating they never would have voted for Gore, etc, etc ETC.

i had a friend in my MFA program, which CVW actually teaches at right now — and this friend was one of the most talented people in the whole building — who was writing about a middle-class black community in california, and the professor kept asking her what the narrative was really saying about the “black experience”

Doesn’t matter. They give out a Nobel for economics every year. There are lots of Nobel-winning economists, but he specifically told her to go ask the one that is her husband. There is a whole long history of women not being allowed to do anything without the permission of their husbands. THAT is why this is a deeply…

This is how it's done. And Ralph? STFU - you are no longer relevant. YOUR former bid for attention put us smack dab IN this mess.

Nader can fuck right off. Part of the reason we got Bush in the White House was because of his dick waggling.

I’ve always thought Nader was a condescending asshole. Now I can think he’s a mansplaining condescending asshole.

The black literary experience, as lauded by the white literary world, must include something harrowing. I resent that.

Literary fiction has largely been monopolized by dusty MFA programs dominated by white men. Aside from the obvious injustices of such a system, it also has another fault worth noting. THEIR SHIT IS BORING. When “serious writing” is no longer protected by the white male university system and successful writers depend…

I agree with this. Especially the points about social media. Using google searches as a metric for attention paid is seriously missing the short bus which is driving Trump’s ascendancy right now.

I’m not worried about Trump because I think he’ll win. I’m worried about him because he is the frontrunner of one of the major parties, and he’s done nowt but legitimize and make politically salient the worst kinds of racism and bigotry. He’s done an excellent job of validating racist supremacy and nativism, and no…

Yeah I’d say there is definitely some emotional manipulation going on there.

Yeah, if you’re going to be spending that kind of money on furniture, might as well find a local craftsman. Better build, lasts longer, supports local industry, and frequently just beautiful to look at. But I may be biased (big fan of woodworking).