In other countries, the government pays for it because it recognizes that it takes help from everyone and benefits the entire country to have healthy, happy babies and parents. We have precedent for it- we all pay for schools whether or not we have children. And yes, it sucks to be the childless person who isn't…

Funny that every other nation in the damn world is able to offer more paid leave and other benefits for women and still make a profit. Kindly fuck off with your terrible opinion.

On the one hand, I agree. But then thinking about the flip side, most women on maternity leave are legally guaranteed their jobs and salaries back within a certain period, whereas there's nothing to prevent me from quitting my job to become a "lady who lunches" the day after I close on my mortgage. Seems like it…

YES! I once reported a photo of a naked passed out trans woman with an erect penis that some complete fuckhead shared saying his friend would 'totally fuk her LOL'. I reported it and got the same response - they reviewed but it did not violate their terms so it could stay.

I think she meant that statement as something like: People want to pretend that those girls were just crazy outliers who are totally different from normal girls, but really a lot of us could be driven to such extremes under the right circumstances. You can't just dismiss it as pure 'evil' and stop there.

Ben Affleck fits Nick's description in the book perfectly. Such a punchable face.

Yeah, I'm not reading too much into this. I have gay male friends who love to make out with girls when they're drunk, I don't see why that can't go either way. I also think we like to be super rigid about sexuality because it's easier to deal with people when they fit in tidy packages.

Yes, yes, you know the proper use of they're vs their vs there. Isn't that sweet. Here's a cookie. Now go play in the backyard.

This American Life had a child psychologist on a month or two ago who said "The only reason the human race has survived is that 2-year-olds are too puny to properly use lethal weapons."

I understand that some kids really need help, but when a kid is having no problems, I wonder if over-helping can create dependency issues. Will they know how to figure things out on their own if there's always an adult there to make sense of things the second they get confused? I remember asking my mom for help…

That's why I'm totally calling bullshit on Matt Lauer. Basically, he's implying that the only reason he asked the question was because Mary Barra brought it up. But male CEOs talk about their kids all the time! Of course, it's not in the same context of work/life balance that female CEOs always have to navigate, but…

Oh Dwight's cousin Mose. But did Mose not talk? Either way, Mose.

While I don't think he handled himself well here, he's absolutely right that work/life balance is a problem for everyone, men and women alike.

I dunno. But, I sort of dislike how you moved this from Matt Lauer being full of crap, which he is, to accusing anonymous, imaginary women of being at fault. That was, you know, weird. How about we blame the person we know is making the remarks, instead of imaginary individuals?

No joke, Lauer's initial response to this was "well, she mentioned it in another interview first!" Yes, probably because legions of other jackasses have asked her that exact same sexist question!

OK, I sort of like Love, Actually sometimes, but I love you for this. I have NEVER understood the love for The Notebook. Or anything Nicholas Sparks writes, to tell the truth. I watch Safe Haven on my Netflix recently and kept thinking, "Wasn't this a Julia Roberts' movie in the '80s?" And then the end with the…

Great piece. Sorry to see such ugly and paternalistic comments popping up. Who is anyone else to tell you what is right for you to do.

My OB told me that deli meat thing is bullshit, and in the 35 years he's been delivering babies he's never seen a single case of deli meat affecting anything. This is not to say that it couldn't happen ever, but it's one of those one in a million things that no one should worry about, lest they never leave the house.…

I see women breastfeeding everywhere - the majority (like me) use wraps. I'm always surprised when I get a double take (note: I've never had anything negative directed at me) as you can see far less with my wrap than with my normal cleavagey shirts. That said, the wrap is now a constant struggle - my baby is like…

I think your generation was definitely the transition for breastfeeding. My mother, a bit older than you but around the same age, breastfed and she was pretty much the only one she knew who did it. Everyone thought she was nuts. So it doesn't surprise me that there are still older women who are profoundly…