Your second point is very true. Visibility of the family (rather than the child alone) seems to be the key issue.

"Says Leyla Ghobadi: "This is going to destroy the Kardashian family. It’s bad. It’s really bad. It’s just embarrassing. But if I were Kim and about to have a baby, I would want to know."

Reasons why Mr. Colander asks if we can move to Canada at least twice a month.

I'm part of a biracial couple living in the UK. What goes on here is NOTHING like what is happening in America. I grew up and lived in New York. So, whenever I visit home that is where I go to with my husband. And still, even in New York City or Brooklyn, we're stared at. I know that typically it's black women…

Two things:

I cried. Then again, I'm pregnant, so I also cried this morning when I realized we were out of cream cheese. But this is cute.

Everyone said it would feel magical and amazing the first time I felt my baby kick. It didn't though, honestly it felt creepy and scary. I did not enjoy the sensation. At all

I'm all for MOST people having enough English or Spanish to get by. I think if you can say "How much is this?" and "Where is the bathroom?" in either language when you get here, you'll pick up other stuff as you go along.

And in the United Soviet Socialist Republic of Quebec, where the people actually have a hard-on for their language (instead of just wanting an easy way to screw people over), they have a full-time (i.e. 9-5, Mon-Fri) French/Civics class (not mandatory, but recommended) at special immigrant orientation/education…

How far we have fallen as a nation. Thomas Jefferson spoke Greek, Latin, French, Italian, and Spanish, and studied Gaelic, Arabic, and Welsh.

Then the government will be required to offer free English classes to anyone who wants them, right?

It's sad but when I lived in India for almost a year I was groped by random men half a dozen times, and I did not dress "provocatively" (loose jeans, loose t's) - not that what a woman wears makes her a deserving victim by any means. There were places where I would not go without my husband, especially at night.

I backpacked through India in 2004, and though I never felt truly unsafe, the attention from men was just constant. I look back on it now and it doesn't seem quite so innocent.

Anyone remember being wholly confused reading Are You there God, It's me Margaret in the 90s? The copy I had, didn't updated it's menstrual technology and she's talking about needing belts to wear a pad. I was wholly confused, also it took them that long to invent sticky stuff, we had glue and scotch tape right?

So I'm 27 and I still use pads. Never got the hang of tampons stopped trying in high school. I have bad cramps for the first 3-4 days of my period and a super heavy flow. Any advice or recommendations?

While the "virginity tests" are obviously heinous, I do want to defend the MKY scheme in general. This is not an apt characterization of the scheme:

To clarify, St John's is Episcopal; not Catholic. They chose to protest here because of the church's progressive stance on women's and LGBT rights.

I look forward to your next treatise: "In Defense of the Suttee".

This is an interesting article and I get what the author is trying to say about the slippery slope of censoring speech. However, there's no way that any Catholic church had their parishioners outside re-enacting the Stations of the Cross on Palm Sunday. It's far more likely that they were representing Jesus'…

Ooh! Is it the fact that "Bridesmaids" is celebrated as an exercise in empowerment even though almost all of its conflict is driven by the idea that Women Be Jealous?