“I think it is important to defend the right of every person to live (or not live, for that matter) their life as they see fit.”

On behalf of everyone: See WHAT above?

I’d invite you to my Facebook feed, where super-moms chat AT LENGTH about the wraps they have for baby-wearing. They also discuss the horrifying monsters who put their babies in cribs, which is exactly what Hitler would have done if Hitler were a terrible mother and not a dictator.

I made a half-hearted attempt to get the first one to sleep in a bassinet, but I’m a hardcore weenie when it comes to crying. With the second one it was like, fuck it and welcome to the family bed kid.

He gets to blissfully sleep through nightmares and midnight pukes, so I don’t think he minds too much.

I co-slept with my eldest until he was three and now co-sleep with my two year old (big brother sometimes joins us in the middle of the night). My husband sleeps in the guest room. I have received endless flak from family and friends about this, but guess what? I get to sleep through the night, every night. My kids…

It’s the 17% problem. If a crowd has 17% women, men believe the gender division is 50/50.

I think there is much more important and interesting work she could be doing.

I get that this is an important point, but when do we start giving a shit before they are endangered? And I know chickens aren't even close to being at risk, but it's getting ridiculous to see us only care about animals once we fuck them over so much they are almost gone.

This. Also, from the time Binti Jua became a mother, she had been trained by zookeepers to hand them her child for medical care. When she carried the young boy to safety, the keepers believed she was exhibiting the results of her training; not instinct.

It’s actually frightening to me how completely callous people are about the life of a CHILD. I get that gorillas are endangered but good lord.. Valuing an animal’s life over that of a little boy seems sociopathic to me, and yet it's a common reaction to this event.

Mary-Grace, the arguments I have had on facebook about this gorilla shit. Animal obsessives are the craziest misanthropes I’ve ever encountered. I’ve had bozos literally telling me they would prefer the boy had died than Harambe.

Wait wait wait. Are you implying that we are all Hypocrites?

Duh, the real criminals here are the parents who dared to look away for a second. I’ve also been told by about a MILLION people on another thread that helicopter parents, not guns, are to blame for the UCLA student who killed their professor, then themselves. Don’t watch your kids close enough? Burn the witch! Watch…

While tragic, the loss of this gorilla, we also slaughter one million chickens per day, so we can shove cheap meat into our fat faces.

I’m so tired of this story in every single way.

I do like Eric Stonestreet, because he is an old and I am an old. And he’s a straight guy playing a gay guy, and he doesn’t seem to have to act like a super-straight-hetero male to prove he isn’t really gay. And he’s pretty funny.

Totally aside from custody, many men get violent because the mother’s time and attention is taken up with the baby, and they resent the loss of time and attention for themselves. I actually think that’s more common than custody-related abuse.

This guy’s lawyer says: “It’s very rare that someone is involved in a homicide case with someone they just had a baby with.”

Hardly that long ago. And it’s still very common in some circles. Get out of your bubble.