When my son was a baby, strangers would continually compliment me on my beautiful daughter, and when I pointed out that he was a boy, I would typically get some variation on, "well, he's too pretty to be a boy." Which, you know, WTF does that mean?, but also: he was super super bald for ages. Moral of this story:…

...Pretty sure the point of the joke was that babies of color aren't typically bald, not that people of color don't deal with body consciousness and/or sexism. So, to people of color, the notion the "problem" of bald babies might seem rather foreign and/or ridiculous. The joke seems rather innocuous to me, but maybe…

i refer to all babies as "the little one" until they're a year or two old. i can never remember their damn names or genders until they're walking and talking.

Cue "my baby ate wig hair what should i do" being a google search...

Blergh, I agree, I can't stand the flapper-girl headgear. My infant daughter does have hair but the only thing that goes on her head is bonnets to shield her from the sun. Babies wear bonnets, that's their thing. The head strap is pointless, ugly, and looks like a garter belt.

Decorative feather handily doubles as quill for signing bills limiting female rights.

OMG, this! The pernicious cult of putting flowers on headbands for infants is just beyond me. And looks uncomfortable.

My sister was born fuzzy, too! I thought it was adorable, frankly.

My friend just looked over at this and exclaimed 'white baby problems.'

Do they not understand that we celebrate this day because we said a giant Fuck You to a king?

I think he meant "easier" in the sense of "fewer barriers in the way of people wanting to adopt" rather than "giving a baby up for adoption is easier than abortion".

He means adoption would be easier than it currently is, in his utopia, not that adoption is easier than an abortion. But I thought the same thing until I reread it.

Yep.

Does anyone remember when The Daily Show tore her apart for her flip-flopping stance on Maternity Leave?

Before she got pregnant she was all "It's evil socialism!"
After she got pregnant and came back she was all "Back off my maternity leave!"

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Kelly is typical of a lot of conservatives in that she cares about societal problems when they impact her. I don't feel this makes her marginally more tolerable, I think it's a depressing anecdote feeding into an ethos largely devoid of empathy. It's glaringly disingenuous. I hate it.

Apparently, "the 47%" included 83% of his own family.

And then . . . surprising nobody at all . . . Romney flip flopped again.

Sounds about right - let me pretend I care about what is best for women and children, but then go ahead do exactly the opposite.

I get where he's coming from— after all, who among us hasn't spent two decades trying to do something they don't want to do?

Well, that squares with the GOP's understanding of math and statistics.