I'd go further than that—I'd say people talk more shit about Katherine Heigl than all three put together. Penn, Mailer, and Tyson committed crimes against women—we forgive those pretty easily, when men are the aggressors. But a woman being "uppity" and "ungrateful," we never forgive.

Thanks for posting. I so agree. I had an OB I thought was on the same page as we were (low section rate, super warm, delivered at birthing centers, etc.) but after a completely uneventful pregnancy, I tested one point past the limit for GD after the sugar test and things rapidly went to hell in the final weeks of my…

I agree with all of that except that this conversation can't happen on Jezebel. This site covers issues that affect women worldwide and focuses a lot on issues that disproportionately affect low-income women, because that's an incredibly important part of having any kind of in-depth coverage of feminist issues. I…

I don't think we fundamentally disagree. I'm coming from the perspective of the daughter of a midwife who works in a Medicaid clinic, so I was raised learning about natural birth and breastfeeding as a feminist movement that empowers women and gives them choices. The condescension and 'bad mom' shit was just never…

Did not get aboard the Hathaway Hate Train. I don't get it, I really do not. She's seemed perfectly likable, for someone that successfully navigated the Hollywood morass, and damned few diva moments (that I've noticed).

What's everyone's problem with Anne Hathaway? This isn't rhetorical. What is it? Does she not have enough of that contrived J-Law "I just fart and eat pizza in my sweatpants whenever I'm not being nominated for Oscars" vibe? Is Hathaway harder to shoehorn into your "pretend best friend" fantasies cos she looks like…

Yeah, I hear that. Though I do feel like both sides buy into this dichotomy of like, 'giving birth the natural way because we are hippie earth goddesses' vs. 'letting science make everything easy and perfect and safe' and both of those viewpoints are extremely inaccurate. And I totally understand the frustration of…

Yeah, I'm not impressed by the "what, did people not like Anne Hathaway?" angle from Jezebel of all places.

Frankly, I'm more WTF about this write up of the article - is it critiquing the author for a shitty profile or Hathaway for her 'annoying' responses about her Oscar speech or being too much of a method actor as Fantine? I'm a second away from going Chris Crocker on people to leave Anne the fuck alone.

Dude, the writer is terrible. That said, anyone who wants to hate Anne Hathaway just 'cuz is a legit mean girl/boy/person. There are celebrities who do really terrible, bad, no-good things. Let's save our time-wasting emotion on them. Well, them and this writer. Because the article is terrible.

LIES. Anne Hathaway is amazing and I love her and you should love her too. The "Hatha-haters gonna hate" thing was coined by NyMag I think, during the height of the "OMG ANNE IS SUCH A THEATRE NERD GO AWAY" Les Mis poledance. It's not new really, and I like it cuz it's fun to say and it gives you a nice warm feeling…

I think that's why people hate her. She's not The Cool Girl like Jennifer Lawrence who talks about loving pizza and pretends to not really care what other people think. Anne obviously cares a lot. Anne has the air of "try-hard" which, for some reason, we've been taught to hate. Knowing how much this stuff gets to her…

Totally. I hear so many people say stuff like "Oh I have no pain tolerance, I'll probably just have a C-section". Not how that works, folks. It's funny to me how some people's faith in modern medicine and science actually parallels people's belief in religion and magic in what they think it can accomplish.

I had a similar thought. I had 2 c-sections and the recovery from each was awful. My neighbor had a baby at the same time vaginally and was jogging(!!!) 5 days later. it took 2 months or more each time for me to heal, with several problems along the way. a c-section is fine, but the author's experience is not…

Yes, having a C-section can be totally legit, but it IS really problematic the way this article, and tons of people, present this as a choice between natural= painful and dangerous! and C-section= easy and safe! Nor is a natural birth somehow in conflict with "medicine and science". There are major risks to C…

Most labor is prelabor where you're able to go about your life with occasional pauses. Women like to scare other women with their labor stats. I say this as a woman who has labored, and is part of a natural birthing community that is usually very supportive but still manages to passive aggressively one up eachother.…

Sean Penn tied Madonna to a chair and beat the shit out of her for hours.

I don't think he's pining for someone he loved when he was 14 I think he's really pining for the last time he was anything approaching relevant.

He didn't beat up TR Knight. He did use a gay slur and Patrick Dempsey came to Knight's defense and then Dempsey and Washington were the ones who fought.

Is there anything creepier and sadder than a person pining for a someone they dated when they were 14, while the other person has gone through a marriage, child birth and divorce?