Do I love this whole thread and think you're both awesome.

Does anyone else thing that her brother has put on a large amount of weight just so he can carve out some shambles of a career doing weight loss press and selling related products? This is almost as bad as his sock empire plan.

It's actually one of the best dresses she's worn while pregnant which makes the negative press all the worse.

Because women should be ridiculed for weight gain, really?

Once, I scienced so hard I made a rainbow.

So you're s pseudo-scientist I take it.

They'll site pseudo science.

Her face is significantly less bloated. She looks great.

Given that men are more likely to commit suicide I imagine it is a case of women seeking outside help.

"I don't think the standard patriarchal gender normative roles exist anymore" - you forgot to add, in your house. In society at large however they persist. I'm kind of shocked to be honest that that has escaped you.

Or if we were actually being realistic about it their "choice" is often foisted upon them by expensive childcare costs and internalizing standard patriarchal gender normative roles.

That's the most wonderful, moving and en point thing I've read in far too long. Thank you, you are a breath of fresh air in the troll fest that is Kinja.

High five.

Ha!

You need to do some reading, girl.

Yet men are not extended the same luxury to opt out of the workforce when they're tired of being a grown adult.

Gender is a social construct. Women have been historically defined by their reproductive function that they were disenfranchised and denied basic civil liberties. Sadly these very inequalities exist today with one of our leading parties agitating to deny women bodily autonomy. Hearing someone actually advocate for a…

Forest Whitaker? Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

You're a domestic violence apologist.

Art?