Yes, five years. One year before the reforms went into effect. It’s out of date because conditions changed.

That story is half a decade out of date. As it happens, Kentucky recognized the crisis and enacted major reforms in 2011.

New York is the state that produced Donald Trump. It’s ignorant to make specious assumptions about “those Kentucky values” based on a very, very, very vague fallacy of association. It’s downright prejudiced to make assumptions about people from Kentucky based on the one person you read about in the newspapers.

I don’t know, I’m Ashkanazi with blond hair and blue eyes. Most of my relatives are completely swarthy and look classically semitic, but I’m not the only fair person in my family, among full- and half-Jews. I get my coloring on one side from my great-grandmother, whose family spent centuries ghettoized in Jewish…

She pioneered the mean-and-bitter candidacy who appealed to the same rageoholics both Trump and Cruz are courting. “I’m the angry candidate!” “I’m the angrier candidate!” Frankly, neither have mastered the Palin sneer, so she has something to add for voters who might feel that neither Trump nor Cruz are quite spiteful …

Wives are killed by husbands six times more often than husbands are killed by wives. That’s “close enough”? I’ll tell you what. I’ll earn six times your salary for the exact same work and we’ll call it “close enough.”

Just stop. More women are killed by intimate partners in absolute numbers. You’re mixing up per capita victims of domestic murder and percentage of murder victims killed by an intimate partner.

Let’s just nip your stupid rate-versus-frequency argument in the bud.

I’m hard pressed to think of a country that has our level of birth control options AND our lack of services and supports for childbirth and rearing.

Thanks. I really can’t complain and feel fortunate. I realize how much more fortunate we are than so many other couples. The toughest part is the anxiety with this pregnancy, how much excitement I’ve missed out on because I was so afraid of hoping too much. It got much better after my first trimester, though.

Same. Well, I actually DID get some extra treatment, but not from my ObGyn. My husband and I found out we were pregnant two days before our “here are your test results and let’s discuss options” appointment at a fertility clinic*. So that doctor immediately put me on progesterone just ‘cause (My ObGyn said, “Well, it…

There’s an economic theory that states that it’s more rational for poor women to have babies when they’re young, like 18-23, because they get more parental and community support than they would if they were older. I mean, a 30 year old cashier at Walmart doesn’t make more than her 20 year old coworker, but she’s had a…

Aside from the suggestion of an extra screening or two, what exactly is this extra treatment?

This probably depends on the practice/ area. I go to a big urban practice (read: yuppified) and aside from some labels on my appointment notes, no one has said boo to me about it, and I’m 40. I got a little extra blood work done.

I love to respond to people who say “female” with “female what?” It takes forever for them to get it enough to say, “female... person.” But it’s worth it when you get to say, “AH! A woman. Why didn’t you just say so?”

Sure, but I think the think that you haven’t really accepted is that people (agents, publishers, marketers, sellers, critics, buyers) already choose on the basis of gender and skin color, and you are the beneficiary of that choosing.

It’s interesting that you consider it being “punished.” I read a lot, over 50 books a year, and that’s still not enough to read everything good out there. On the whole, how one chooses which books to read is fairly arbitrary: how books are placed in the store, what the cover looks like, whether someone I know happened…

This is a good point. I don’t know how many people of African ancestry she would be exposed to in Hungary, compared to all of the stunning people of different races and ethnicities we’re accustomed to seeing in the US.

Hah. I doubt there would be a different response universally, but I find my immediate response to be kind of a distraction. But I guess it highlights the vanity of this project, the belief that you can take something so beautiful and make it more (less) beautiful by inserting your own irrelevant face into it? It makes…

The original photos might very well be color corrected, but I don’t think it would be hard to find women who’s facial structure is classically beautiful. I can’t say whether these women would be considered beautiful in their own cultures, but I feel comfortable saying that the Hungarian women specifically does not…