Yes, please keep up the work. I consider myself very well-read and mostly enlightened, but that figure astonished me, if only because I look around me and believe that the figure is much lower in my personal circle, which creates its own reality that apparently is quite at odds with the broader one. These are figures…

Seriously. Hodgepopkins is a vile human being. Hope he is kicked to the curb post-haste- he offers nothing to the conversation other than sexist and racist vitriol.

"One in three women worldwide is beaten or raped during her lifetime?" Holy shit. I have never heard that figure before. That's just...I mean...It's....JESUS. That's horrifying and rage inducing.

COSIGNED completely. I waited tables all thru college, on Nantucket in the summers between college years, and in grad school (Border Cafe in Harvard Square- awesome time and I too stole tortillas to put fresh cheese and their homemade ranch dressing in as my "dinner" as I ran up and down flights of stairs :). I never…

AMEN, and well-said. And also: with science changing daily, what's the fucking point in screaming about dangers of later pregnancies so hysterically if not to punish women for not choosing hearth and home at 25? I mean, disease rates have increased over the years as our life expectancy grows and grows, but no one is…

In re: Ann Coulter....

I LOATHE these articles and studies whose only goal appears to be to frighten women into having children earlier, punishing women in general for trends in having kids later, and generally trying to make women who want to have children but for whom it happens post-35 feel like shit for making that choice. With so…

Agreed. This article was just so terrible on so many levels, judgy while still thinking its open-minded and perpetuating of the "your chance to have kids is almost gone by the time you are 35 so you better think twice and have that kid or else you might wind up barren and crying into your cats' fur" hysteria which is…

What a stupid article. The right age to have an abortion is any goddamn age you feel you are not ready or willing to be a mother.

AMEN. My mother used to get on me about my eventual children's moral compass and from whence it would come when I said I had no intention of raising them in any church and that if they so decided, they could choose their faith as adults. I told her in no uncertain terms that my moral compass and compassion/kindness,…

Ooh yes. Little houndstooth ones, like Sherlock Holmes wore, please.

Hey, Page Six, since when is 35 and 44 "May-December"? Oh, when it's the man who is younger? Go fuck yourself.

In what universe do you feel even a little bit sorry for Chris Brown? He is an unrepentent, entitled, law-flaunting, woman-beating asshole of the first degree whose mother has not held him accountable for any behavior in his life and enables all his asshattery. I don't have a smidgeon of sympathy. The man has the…

I'd go with Stupor Bowl myself....

I <3 this response so much, thank you!

I guess Saudi Arabian girls can't be taught soon enough that they are always- from birth, essentially- "asking for it" just by being female. Vomit inducing culture.

One of the 1,000,000 reasons I will never send my daughter to Catholic school is that the very last thing I want her to be in life is "lady-like." I want her to be brash, and bold, and fearless, and kind, and generous, and smart....not conform to some antiquated Donna Reed-like standard of bullshit decorum. Ugh,…

I want Chestnut to be mine. GAH, the cuteness is making my heart threaten to explode!

Dude, I am SO with you. Between the Puppy Bowl and my friend who keeps posting on Facebook photos of rescue puppies from the organization she volunteers at, my "get a new puppy!!!" beacon is flashing like a mo-fo. But, alas, I have to wait until I move to a new place in the summer so I have more room for the pup and…

THAT is hilarious and I shall use it henceforth, but promise all credit to CletusThurstonB. :)