I really do get that different types of birth control work better for different people, and some people really love their IUDs, but I feel like constantly repeating that taking the pill is too complicated for teens to remember to do is not giving them enough credit. Maybe because I was on various daily medications…

confession: if this was around when I was a teen, I totally would have been a Chivette. I'm really glad I have self esteem now.

I have a male friend (he's dating one of my best girlfriends) and her and I were talking about a juice detox we were doing for 2 days just to clean ourselves of all the unhealthy Holiday crap we stuffed ourselves with. He said, "Aww come on you two. What's the big deal? You both have the thigh gap don't you?"

1) I wish misogynists would just straight up say that they prefer women who are actively hurting themselves - that anorexia is their preferred state for women. Few are so bold as to admit it (although a few MRA sites do). Under patriarchy, the woman who thinks of absolutely nothing else except what she looks like and…

The Chive photos are basically thinspo. The "Mind the Gap" posts are literally of thigh gaps. I invariably look at those and progress to feeling like shit.

But, but...what about his booooooner?

Yeah, I looked fuckin' great when my body was actually eating itself away. I was so beautiful when my electrolytes were so low that I could've had a heart attack.

And hey, I had BEWBS so I clearly wasn't anorexic, right?

New Mexico desperately needs absolutely all of the birth control it can get. It astounds me how many people I come across in my day-to-day life that are my age (24) and have children that are already in elementary school. My husband's co-workers think we're strange for not already having kids and have no immediate…

Shut up. Seriously.

Did you read the article, you absolute potato brain?

Eh, if they mean the ring, then I'm right there with them. I've had plenty of penis, but that thing was a little piece of misery that would have killed my sex life even if it hadn't already reduced my sex drive to zero.

Any time someone claims the "thigh gap" obsession is self-imposed by women, men give no fucks about thigh gap, they have never given it any consideration, etc., etc., a link to The Chive should automatically appear. Straight men's sexuality is toxic.

*Google's female anatomy*

stopping a small child from implanting

I wish they'd expand programs like this. IUDs and implants aren't the right choice for every woman or every teen, but I think it's been fairly ridiculous that we've traditionally started out teenagers (who are among the women least able to cope with unplanned pregnancies and who are often still learning to balance…

"and they're just like 'Oh, I can't handle things being in my vagina,'"

If I had a daughter, I might go this route for this reason above anything else...fibroids. I've had them all my life and my family just thought I was being over-dramatic. I rationalized that all periods felt like the build up period to the second coming of Christ and I should just suck it up. It wasn't until I was…

Her? She gets to do whatever she wants with her life because she has all the free time in the world. Yup, it's her. I think we overestimate the value of love and parents.

Wouldn't you want to move out ASAP if Kris Jenner was your moms?

Why does a 17 year old need her own house? Where is this child's mothe- - - oh. Yeah. Never mind. Run, Kylie. Run like the wind.