I was all prepared to be *pissed* at the dude for sharing his wife’s health data in some sort of patriarchal/puritanical move - eg. must know and control everything about her body. But he genuinely thought the thing was broken and was just looking for some tech advice! This actually seems like a sweet story, rather…

“This is one of the things that pisses me the hell off with those people, especially dudes, who are pro-forced birth.”

Your blood volume increases and your blood also has to start circulating through the placenta, as well as all kinds of hormone level shifts, up and down, and it really can be a rollercoaster.

Actually there has been quite a bit of research showing that during the 3rd trimester of pregnancy the vaginal flora changes to mimic that of gut flora. Additionally, there has been some quite good research on this despite Jez’s lack of science reporting:

You’re missing a point.

Who said anything about fundamentally integral? And I think the logic was more like:

We are getting more and more women requesting this where I work and we (midwives, doctors and theatre team) do all we can to help facilitate it. We are also doing delayed cord clamping at section (when it is safe to do so) and skin to skin in theatres. It is great, good for babies, good for families. What is not to…

Choosing sexuality is different than being objectified. It’s a subtle distinction that is lost on bros such as yourself

It’s not a trend! It’s a goddamn scientific study.

I’m baffled and dismayed by all the negative responses.

It’s small but it’s designed as a proof-of-principle or pilot study, not a large scale epidemiological one. Basically you run a small study to see if your hypothesis holds water and then scale up if it does (like experimenting on animals or ex vivo before doing a human study).

**sigh** No. Wrong. People’s clothing do not give you a license to harass or assault them. You do not get to use people’s outfits as an excuse for your bad behavior. People who dress up in sexy outfits deserve to be treated with respect, because they are human beings. Anyone suggesting otherwise needs to go off and…

Did you read the Jezebel article about the difference between the way that men write about women vs. the way that women write about men? It was very good. It included this quote from Douglas Adams:

Thank you for breaking it out for me like that, I just see the long term cost of the settlement for a misconduct lawsuit to be far more expensive than the price to train them properly in the first place. Prioritizing lower short term costs over long term ones is one of the things that is so damaging in the public…

Cost. Bullets and range time cost money. Instructors cost money. A lot of police departments are underfunded. When they get federal money, it is a one-time check. So, they can’t plan things like more training or hiring more officers around it. That’s how police departments end up with all shiny new cars, lockers full…

That’s the thing, though – it may not be an “outright murder,” but it’s still not okay for cops to be walking up a residential stairwell on regular patrol with their guns locked and loaded, and these kind of “one-off incidents” just don’t happen in suburbia.

That’s why he’s being charged with manslaughter, not murder. It’s negligence, not willful intent to kill someone.

But reckless mistakes that lead to someone’s death is manslaughter.

but hey here’s a fun story a friend told me just now:

I 100% believe that “patrolling the stairwell with a gun was ‘unofficial standard operating procedure[.]’” But “everyone else does it” isn’t actually a defense. It wasn’t in kindergarten and it isn’t now.