The scenario in which she dies right after having the baby is different, though, because in that case the woman clearly consents to carrying out the pregnancy to term and wanted to have the experience of parenting even if she died without being able to. It’s the fact that the mother of the deceased is taking…

There’s a lot that goes on during one’s end of life, and it’s also just as possible that there were other issues that she was focusing on and forgot to destroy them.

For me, it’s more that it’s without clear consent from the daughter. Yes, I would think it was slightly weird for a daughter to ask a mom to be a surrogate simply because of the age issue, but this woman is dead and there’s no explicit proof that this is what she wanted. It feels more like the mom wanting a grandchild…

I’ll never understand the drive some people have to ABSOLUTELY HAVE grandchildren. Is this what her daughter would have wanted? To not even have the experience of having her own kids and then her 60-year-old mom raising an infant?

When it comes to people getting worked up about it, I’ve found that it’s the medically unnecessary part of the whole process—babies NEED to be fed, medicated, and inoculated for their health and well-being. They DON’T need to be circumcised, save for religious reasons, but there are plenty of people who don’t find…

I want to agree with you, but the analogy between shaving pubic hair and circumcision is a false one since one is a non-permanent choice by an adult unto their own body and the other is permanent physical alteration done without the consent of the person it’s done to.

Jesus christ, I wish we would stop even talking about this. I trim but don’t wax, and happily so—fuck putting razors down there or dealing with ingrown hairs—but every single article or study on the subject always makes me feel so insecure, like I’m a freaking outlier (seems like I am, though) for having hair on my…

Jesus fucking christ.

#MyLife

I will NEVER understand what goes on in the minds of people who do this, NEVER. I can look at my own family and recognize bigoted thinking that comes from ignorance and (self-) segregation, but I know that they would never physically hurt someone because of it. It makes me sick to even think about doing this to…

Wait, what? This is a thing?!

Super gross here as well! I don’t have enough workout clothes to wash after every use as I have to use coin-operated machines. I don’t smell much either, and I febreeze after each use to keep myself from being super disgusting. I wash when I can.

You mean I shouldn’t just keep febreezing my yoga pants continuously because I only do laundry once a month because I don’t have in-units W/D and coin-operated machines are expensive and a pain?

Me tooooooo! I can’t wait for March!

I agree with your statement whole-heartedly.

I’m somewhere in the middle here but closer to your side of the argument. I don’t think children are a privilege, and I do think that reproduction is a right, but I don’t think that right extends to outside forces being mandated or even obligated to help someone conceive if they can’t naturally, especially in a…

Right? As an adult, it’s hard not to get caught up in the “perfect labia” so prevalent in pornography, and I generally like my genitals. Poor teens have little chance to not fall deep into self-loathing.

Except in cases of medical necessity, I’m against teens doing anything surgical to their body—so much changes over the course of adolescence and young adult, both physically AND mentally. What is the “end of the world!” as a 16-year-old could be a beloved (or at least neutral) feature as a 26-year-old. There are too…

I’m going to see it in SF, too! Orchestra seats! Maybe we’ll be seated near each other :)

SO JEALOUS. I will never get to see it in NY on Broadway, but I get to impatiently wait for the SF production in March