The baby will suck the mother dry for nutrients. If a woman doesn’t gain a lot of weight, the baby will still take what it needs from its mother to develop properly.

The point is not adding “token” women. The point is recognizing the knowledge and skills women abundantly have, and are equal to or exceed that of male panalist, and incorporate them equally into the world.

And most women do, absolutely. Except the ones that don’t. Sometimes it’s not even woman to woman—it’s pregnancy to pregnancy. A friend of mine was shocked to learn she was about six months pregnant with her second child after her doctor’s office did a routine pregnancy test to clear her to take a medication. With her…

next-level mansplaining, right here

Well to be fair pushing a baby out feels EXACTLY like pushing out a massive shit so I guess I can give her that.

I will never understand this line of thinking. “Pregnancy works this way for me, therefore I cannot even even conceive of the idea that women exist whose bodies do not react to pregnancy exactly like mine!”

Those things don’t happen to all women. I did miss some periods, but didn’t realize it, because they were usually light. As for the rest of your list/symptoms: my stomach pouched out in my 3rd trimester ( I was still fairly thin, other than my pouch). I only gained a few pounds. None of the other things happened to…

Unless it’s a blood test, the pregnancy tests they give women at hospitals are exactly the same as at-home tests.

Why are you telling a sex worker what sex work is? Incorrectly, I might add.

Let me tell you about what life is like as a fat sexworker. My job involves sharing photos of myself as a strong, sexy, sexual woman, in varying degrees of undress. It involves me setting a figure - a not inexpensive one, either - on what I feel access to my body is worth.

This, for a myriad of reasons, makes some men…

Insurance companies may be part of it, but mammograms themselves also elevate your risk of breast cancer on their own, because they are a source of radiation. I’m 25 and had my first mammograms this year because I’ve had radiation to my chest in treatment of cancer I had ten years ago, but I’m not really excited about…

THIS. it’s one thing if you have a family history. And definitely it’s a big decision and a huge controversy about whether to screen after 40. But for the vast majority of women, you do NOT need a mammo in your 20s or 30s and maybe not even in your 40s, depending on your risk factors. The really sad thing is the…

I am very sorry for Sandra Lee and wish her a speedy recovery.

Let me be very clear.

The 15K dress isn’t really the best example for this (and I’m on your side). When a house like Chanel makes a couture gown that retails for 15K, most of the work on that gown is conducted by highly skilled experts who are paid appropriately for their time and talent. I don’t really have a problem with couture because…

I’m so sorry. There’s a particular kind of grief that happens when a nominally close relative dies to whom one has never been close in reality. One mourns the loss of any possibility of having the relationship they longed for with that person, and it’s sometimes difficult for others to understand. They say things…

Slightly off topic: Whenever I read stories about mothers who harm their children and the deserved scorn they receive, I always wonder why the absent fathers get none. Being out of the picture does not absolve you of the outcome of the child.

Yup. I'm going to call my mom on the way home and thank her for not being crazy. Then I'm going to go home, hug my kids, and promise them that I will never starve them or put them on display.

I choose to believe a woman who says she did not know she was pregnant. I don't understand being nasty to/about a woman because she says she did not know.

I know people are skeptcial but it does/has happened. On the first day of 6th grade our teacher's water broke. She had NO IDEA. She was a little (not a lot) chubby but she had a thyroid issue (or something like that this was a long time ago) and her medicine made her skip her period and give her bad gas. She had also…