I think this a good idea. The boyf and I were looking for a gym to join, except we were both hesitant to go because I am a little bit of a fatteh while the boyf is scrawny. A LOT of fitness mill gyms (that have reasonable membership prices) moralize body size and exercise in general. You have to do a preliminary…

I have a feeling that the pregnant human body is more resilient than newly pregnany supermoms not eating fish at all and getting placenta facials make us think. People used to smoke all the time during pregnancy. In the Early Modern Period, people used to barely eat and would give birth to normal children. No one…

If that were true, every person in the world would have had fetal alcohol syndrome in the middle ages.

Yes. The US sucks. This is why we have a problem.

In addition to douchey momspeak, "you're just jealous is totally a gaslighting tool for the menz."

Because all of my desires are only validated once I have a relationship. The presence of man is one's life brings so much joy that it is surprising some people wait until their mid twenties to get married!

Also, conservative men are trying, erm, to conserve their white male entitlement to access to female bodies. Like half of American history can be attributed in part to men trying to protect that right. If the wimmenz have teh sex with men outside of marriage, then they might not choose the whiner and thus he feels…

Um. Yeah. LIVE free. Not MURDER free. Or DIE free. Anti-choice is built right into the name!!!

Maybe the wimmenz won't choose to marry and procreate with right wingers if they aren't slutshamed and forced into marital-only copulation. In all seriousness, these measure are effort to control female sexuality to regain white male entitlement to sexual access to women's bodies that feminism and birth control took…

Now, if we only made nearly fool-proof birth control like the IUD as cheaply as the pill, the pregnancy rates would go down even further, as many poor women and women without health insurance need to jump through hoops to get their prescriptions filled or renewed. Of course, only to consenting women (since there have…

I agree. We need to consider these statistics with the recent reports that the majority of children born to women under 30 were out of wedlock.

I was only talking about cities. Having grown up in rural New England, I know first hand what it means to have to drive literally everywhere. It sucks.

Then I guess there is no solution. Because kids are too obnoxious not to text in class. My college kids are too stupid so I *know* high school kids are worse.

I remember trying to go from UCLA to another part of LA. Actual LA. And it took 2 hours and 3 buses. But some routes must be viable for some things, right?

Dude, I was driving from Minnesota to Grand Rapids and I stupidly ended up in Chicago during rush hour. WHAT A FUCKING NIGHTMARE! I would *never* drive if I lived there.

I understand that many midwestern cities aren't equipped for alternate modes of transportation. I totally get this. But, my city is doing *everything* in its power to get people to take alternate transportation options including:

Minneapolis is one of the best biking cities in the country. The last few mayors have spent tons of money making this city extremely bike-friendly. We have greenways that take us all over town without having to ride in traffic and tons of bridges to get us over highways and busy roads. The city is doing…

Like when people who work at Target corporate pay like $80/mo or more to park when they could just take the fucking bus because I guarantee you Target subsidized bus passes. I really like Minneapolis as a city and many of its residents but I will never get used to some of the midwest cultural *entitlement* of driving.

Perhaps the solution is to have teachers collect phones in a box before class (so it is like 25 phones and not 700) and give them back at the end. Then have a crazy strict punishment for those who break the rule because it is so reasonable.

It doesn't work. Teenagers will find a way to make it work. Hell, my college students text all. the. time. in class and have their phones at their fingertips at all moments even if we have a "no phone" policy.