It would be weird for a small artist/photographer to feel that independent artists who feel they have been plagiarized are a good source of inspiration for contemporary satire, but I too am deeply unfunny so I guess anything could be true. 

It feels like the point would have to be “Joan is smarter or more articulate than Emily Ratajkowski.” I’ve spent the past week grading papers and this is pretty clearly a time where I might write in the margin “Do you mean the child will know when they are older who they are? I see that you are drawing your reader to…

This is the perspective that’s so often missing from discussions like this. You’ve articulated it perfectly. This letter writer should never have been in the position they were in. Our parent’s marriages are not our responsibility and, to a much greater extent than many people are capable of recognizing, they’re often…

It is an internet crime for this article to not have a photo. 

That depends on a lot of factors. But when I say that people like to ignore the race and class concerns surrounding adoption and foster care systems I mean things like: who has the privilege and institutional support to continue unplanned pregnancies and then parent the resulting children, or keep them in their…

People (in the comments) absolutely love to paint couples who have conception barriers as monsters for pursuing any options other than adoption, especially through foster care, and they also love to never talk at all about the race and class concerns surrounding adoption and foster care systems.  They love it as much…

People have all kinds of reasons, most of which have nothing to do with money. I’m sure there’s a lot of reading out there if it interests you.

Maybe consider leaving the hot takes for people who do have skin in the game. Those of us who are struggling with fertility issues don’t need this opinion.  We’ve heard it and it’s more complicated than you think. Instead of saying this, you could have not said it. That would have been better.

It is a charmingly peculiar mistake to make, honestly, to see them counting out $800 and think, “Oh, a profitable scooter ride venture!”

My mom got mine by bribing someone who worked at a toy store to hide one.  I was completely obsessed with her and she sits on a shelf next to my husband’s beloved stuffed owl from childhood in his office.  Even now I’d be upset if something happened to that doll. 

I hope in my heart that you secretly ate the pizza, because who gives a fuck about a culture that’s like, “This is fashion, we live on anxiety supplements and water, our piss is worth a fortune.”

I don’t personally care to debate about journalistic ethics or about whether this woman had a right to privacy if the photo was unsolicited. All I care about is how delightfully petty the journalist looks in the damn New York Times. She really thought it was a good look to be like, “yeah? Well you’re fat, your robe is…

I have a PhD, but if it weren’t for the long college and training process I would be a mechanic or a welder. Because I need a damn job.

I would like to know who the dude was so that I can be the personal arbiter of whether or not the pay gap is real. - most of the comments on this article

I’m very into the snark of this and the general thesis, but also really hung up on disagreeing about the open kitchen as a panopticon.

The Mila Kunis headline at the link is such a great example of how mind numbingly exhausting it is to be a woman in the world.

“We need to launch plus as a separate brand with new fits, new models and new fabrics to ensure that the styles fit and look great.

As a fat person myself, hearing fat jokes about anyone bothers me very much.

Okay but he should have sent the Sacajawea coin to Kesha or Lupita instead.