Yeah, that’s definitely a big blind spot in the article. I’ve got rafts of greys yelling at me for being so insensitive about how hard it is to see babies, etc. in fertility clinics - which is completely true, and which I get - but is simply not the situation here. You’re right that egg harvesting is a big deal and…

I get that (a friend-of-a-friend of mine also recently went through this for the exact same reason), and I don’t mean to devalue those feelings. All I was trying to say by my original comment was that it doesn’t seem like those are the women these places are oriented towards. 

omg, i laughed way too hard at this

Indeed! I got mine tied at the ripe old age of 26, baby.

Oh, absolutely kids and babies don’t belong in fertility clinics, you’re 100% right about that. But these are not fertility clinics. Egg freezing is not a treatment for infertility. It’s an upscale pampering service that would put Donna and Tom’s Treat Yo Self in Beverly Hills to shame. These are young women with…

Right, which I think is how we got the “non-experimental” label, if I’m remembering right, but the numbers still aren’t great. 

We simply don’t know what the rate of success (measured by a live birth) is for egg freezing. Up until 4 years ago, it was a rare procedure used to attempt to preserve fertility for women of childbearing age going through cancer treatment. Statistics regarding live births in that cohort are essentially meaningless in…

Maybe try searching specifically for one that specializes in pelvic-floor disorders or post-menopausal issues. They’ll still be fully qualified to do all the regular stuff, but if their practice is focused on older/non-fertile women, you won’t have to wade through a sea of babies every time you go.

The data indicated women going in for egg-freezing didn’t want to sit next to a couple, or children, an experience which might sour this “safe space for these single proactive women,” Huang said, women who are “like, not moved by pictures of babies, right?”

Well, that sucks. :/

Omg, I just went pink a couple weeks ago and now I need to shave my head.

As usual, Mr. Pipper, perfect gif is perfect. :)

We blended our incomes immediately, partly out of pure necessity (we were broke as fuuuuuuck) and partly because we were too young and naive to consider that might not be a good idea (we got married at 21). It’s worked out fine for us, but I think that’s due in very large part to the fact that I have always made more…

Yeah, it’s a same-shit-different-pile type thing, I think. From your moms and grandmas, you get a huffy, defensive, “Well, *I* [insert thing that science has now shown to be legitimately dangerous/unhealthy] all the time, and you kids turned out fine.” From age-peer moms you get a concern-trolling, “I think it’s amazin…

I see the family I want to see when I want to see them. Family holidays are strictly for the grandparents (who I love, don’t get me wrong, but the whole *thing* of a holiday dinner is just stressful).

Just a couple thoughts:

Exactly. Your true friends are always going to be willing to support you, but true friendship means that support goes both ways. By asking first if your friend has the emotional bandwidth to listen to you at that moment, you’re showing that you understand it takes time and focus and energy to engage and you don’t want…

We all like to think that the things we like are good. But sometimes we like things that are bad. Martin is a poor writer. Feeling like the enjoyable aspects of his stories outweigh the flaws is fine but it doesn’t mean he’s not a poor writer. We all have stuff like this. The show Friends, for example, is objectively…

1. Popularity is not a measure of quality.