FaithM
FaithM
FaithM

I don't see anyone jumping all over their age gap. Is Rupert Murdoch's wife like, a million years younger than him? And he's no Johnny Depp... I think the "cliche" that everyone's talking about is the fact that he left his long-time partner for a younger woman, which is—yeah, a pretty fucked cliche at this point.

Here I was, all geared up to start my morning off with some raging peen, and I get...a very unenthusiastic semi. DON'T INSULT ME, CREEPY NAKED MAN.

Seriously. The whole time I'm reading this, all I'm hearing is "I'm an absent father with virtually zero involvement with my kids' upbringing. My wife is a walking vagina that magically makes babies and keeps them alive, because that's what vaginas do."

Put that into perspective. One out of every eight women in the U.S. is diagnosed with breast cancer every year. No one would argue for routine mastectomies for every woman regardless of whether she's symptomatic based on that number. I'm not saying that what you experienced can't happen to my kid or anyone else's kid;

My husband was very pro-circ when I was pregnant with my son, and those were the only two reasons he had for why we needed to circ. I was like "and your health statistics are...where?..." I did the research and even watched a video of a circumcision (which I don't ever recommend anyone do ever for any reason), which

That's really horrible that you experienced that, but that's not an argument for routine circumcision, considering the fact that foreskin malfunctions of that nature are so rare.

True, it is really hard to keep a body part clean in a country with filtered water and indoor plumbing...

The only legitimate study I've seen on this looked at circumcision and HIV in Africa, which found lower rates among circumcised men. So I guess the moral of the story is you can just get your kid circumcised and skip the whole messy "use a condom" conversation? Incidentally, my mother-in-law was the one who sent me

Seriously? Equivalent to vaccines? As in "we could potentially see a recurrence of Polio if circumcision rates don't remain above 88%?" What the fucking fuck?

I don't think he was ever actually a student at NYU. From what I gathered from this conversation, he liked to frequent the NYU and Columbia campuses to pick up on Freshman girls at parties. The conversation was actually about creepy people and this girl literally said "you know who's the worst? James Franco." And then

Omg, this is the best. When I was in grad school at NYU, I was at the gym one day and found myself in a conversation about what a creep James Franco was. These two undergrads were talking about how he liked to pick up on Freshman girls where he could. I chalked it up to rumor, but Jayzus! Maybe not!

Ugh. I was in Riverside in 87/88. Bad times, man...bad times. Got out of there as a teenager and never went back. Hugs to you.

I'm not an anti-vaxxer, but the whooping cough epidemic was caused by the switch to the acellular version, not anti-vaxxers. We don't need to peddle misinformation. That said, I made damn sure my son got his TDaP since pertussis is not something I want to mess with at all, but let's call a spade a spade. It's just not

Weeeellll, to be fair, you're talking about every human infant on the planet (or rather, developed countries, with efforts to make vaccines more available in developing countries) getting 49 doses of vaccines by the age of 6. My lady brain doesn't do the math so good, but $50 a pop (ish) x 49 x 6 billion is...a lot.

My son's on a delayed schedule and the varicella vaccine is one that I won't get for him unless he hasn't had chickenpox by the time he's 10—and I have a feeling he won't get chickenpox by then since most kids are vaccinated for it now, so I'm sure we'll end up having to get it at some point.

Thank you for sharing your perspective. I think too often the parents vs. childless—especially in feminist contexts—frequently turns into a debate of which choice was better, and there's rarely discussion of women who wanted something different but shitty life circumstances and shitty social infrastructure precluded

Whoa. Human centipede sex...

And a big ol' Fuck You to Carl's Jr. You'll never be In & Out.

Is that meat porn? I feel like that's how that should be described.

Holy fucking Christ. When I was 12 I found myself in the windowless office a court psychologist during a custody hearing who started asking me about boys, my breast development and bras, and how my periods were going. After that, I was paranoid about ever finding myself in a situation where I was in an enclosed space