Marry me too. I hate quinoa. I hate cooking it even more (I don't anymore; only did it a few times for a friend.)

Ha. Mine bowled over a family member by saying her top five favorite foods were: okra, broccoli, sushi, strawberries and donuts.

You know, when I tell people that even if KidBeast doesn't like something she has to try it several times, in different ways before she can decide, they immediately imagine some horrifying food-forcing that does on. Which isn't the case. She has her dislikes (she's hated raisins all her life. From the very first one…

Haha, yeah. The word gross isn't allowed in our house in relation to food, a) because you're disrespecting the time and effort and goodwill of the person who prepared the food, and b) even if you don't like it, maybe I do, and why should you disrespect my preferences? There are other ways to convey your dislike that…

"Since you don't seem to realize it, couscous and lentils and quinoa are eaten all.the.damn.time. by children in other parts of the world."

I was so surprised when I came to America and found almost all restaurants had a kid menu which was practically carbon copies of each other—with the inevitable chicken nuggets or chicken fingers in them.

It is if you're talking from a point of privilege and you have no notion of how your privilege defines you and your interactions with people :-) I think we have a clear example of that here.

Thank you!! This!

Milk is a luxury.

You, my friend, are an optimist.

Dude, if someone's empathy is that fragile that just because someone doesn't applaud it, said empathy disappears, then what was it worth to begin with? The situation that gives rise to the need for empathy still exists, doesn't it? If the empathy's gone because someone 'shitting all over' it, then it wasn't empathy to…

You don't know much about this, this much is clear.

Okay. You have decided to leave logic and consistency by the wayside. Good going!

Also, where are you getting your stats from? That the biggest problem the majority of women have are morning sickness and mild gest. diabetes?

I have actually been pregnant myself. And known many others who have been pregnant, and some who are currently so. The one generalization I have drawn from all this is that each body reacts differently to pregnancy. Which means I don't think that just because I had an easy pregnancy (I didn't, but it wasn't dire…

Yes, I have. And not just in Africa either, and not just in video. Do you know what happens to a woman's body when she has to breastfeed and she doesn't have a proper diet? Do you know what happens to a woman's body when she is pregnant and doesn't have a proper diet?

Good for them that they begin to empathize based on their own experience. Does the rest of the world now need to applaud? This particular story is about being black in America. That is a very specific experience. How hard is that to understand? OP can comment on whatever she wants to; but there will be a response to…

Haha, oh my, shall we dub that song the LittleBite Brain-fact Anthem?

Well, they're not actual people, mothers, are they?

Breastmilk isn't free—to produce breast milk, the mother has to have a proper diet. Which is an expense you're not taking into account. You would understand that if you thought of the mother as a human being rather than a walking womb.