Yummy. I'll rub his phantom limb for him! Too much??

When I was a journalist, I got the same thing. I also had elected officials asking me if I would take showers with them or polish their knobs to get the story. It's not any different now that I am a lawyer. I have people ask me all the time for free legal advice. But they don't ask my male colleagues because that…

Awesome. I can always count on my state (NC) to send dickless asshats to Washington. I'd like to slap all of these men. Just to watch their smug jowls jiggle.

@RotatingOrange, I'm sorry. I am a family law attorney. While you are correct that sometimes men can have child support deducted from their wages, that is not what happens in the majority of these cases. And extradition? Really? If that's even true, which it is not in the state where I practice, the conditions must be…

Cry me a damn river! The system still works overwhelmingly in favor of those with the dicks here. A man can voluntarily terminate his parental rights, a man can contest a demand for child support, a man can get a child support order amended to fit well within his means OR a man can even decline to pay a child support…

Men can voluntarily terminate their parental rights. Depending on the state he lives in, it may or may not be granted. Courts terminate parental rights every day in this country. However, the woman can fight it. But that takes either money or access to free legal services- which are scarce commodities for too many…

Excellent comment. And too true. I used to adore VF. Now, meh...

LOVE IT!!!! Hahahahahahaha!

I'll never forget the time a CEO of a major corporation that I was interviewing actually gasped at the firm handshake I gave him. He was completely taken aback and proceeded to tell everyone around us (think PR handlers, photographers) what a "manly" grip I had. And I'm so proud of my reaction. I just shrugged and…

You hit the nail on the head with that comment! I was a professional journalist for many, many years. And let's be frank, does the WSJ consider its primary audience to be women? Ah, that would be a "no." A story that really focused on the issue in all of its intricacies would never make it past one of these shitty…

Yes, yes, YES!!! I am in month 9 and I look like an absurd cartoonish character with an enormous belly and an enormous everything else. Those damn expensive Pea in the Pod clothes can suck it too. Because you are right! They got too small way too fast. These days, I'm lucky to find a shirt that completely covers the…

I'm partial to "The Phantom Limbs" as a kick-ass band name.

Agreed. Asshole.

ARGGHGHGHGHG!!! Enough with the ugly shoes already!!!! Although I do have to say, in a pinch, I would wear these before I wore those God-awful Vibran five finger monstrosities. So, I guess that's at least a half-point in their favor. Damn.

Yeah, I'm sick of that damn slogan. In fact, the next person who utters it on my FB thread is going to be unfriended immediately.

What makes me especially angry is that Philly must not have any statutes or laws on its books that makes this failure to act a crime. Otherwise, these parents could be charged with involuntary manslaughter under a theory of criminal negligence for failing to act in a reasonable manner toward a child they owed such a…

I really loved this article and your healthy perspective. I'm about to have a baby (two weeks!) and I have already found myself obsessing about how much I am going to have to work out in order to get my pre-baby body "back." But dammit, I really should be focusing on the new life I am bringing into this world and how…

I just puked up my coffee and egg sandwich. Thanks. What on earth is wrong with people??? Yes, I should be supportive of the choices other women make. But I am about to deliver my own spawn into this world in about three weeks. And I can assure you I have no plans to drink, eat, preserve or otherwise memorialize the…

OMG! There is such a thing??? No!!!! (Vigorously scrubbing eyeballs) What has been seen cannot be unseen!!!!!!!!!!AGHHGHGHGHGHGH!

And the war on women in the U.S. marches steadily forward. I'm *so* glad that it's going to get harder to for women to be educated about sexually transmitted diseases, birth control and to receive an abortion if necessary. It pains me that what was once declared a true fundamental right - under the pneumbra of privacy…