As a Romanian woman, I kind of have to agree.

I almost died reading that.

I gained around that... but it's because I lost so much weight during morning sickness at the start of pregnancy, that the total weight gained was not that much. I actually weighed less when I gave birth than when I'd gotten pregnant.

I have to say that I find the Duchess of Cambridge a total bore and pretty unimpressive at being anything but a clothes hanger, but my heart goes out to her right now. Everything I read in the Earth Mother birthing books said that women in labour need a peaceful, safe space, no pressure, ability to make their own…

Well, they grow out of them pretty quick.

Yeah, ALL of which you get to enjoy awake when you have a newborn.

Mine was legitimately a cute newborn. (As in, people told us, "oh, they're usually so ugly, but yours is actually not.) But in subsequent months he went through some odd, garden gnome phases, so that made up for the newborn cuteness.

Me too. I have to remind myself how shitty the birth and ensuing nine months of hell were.

That is because you are an ignorant moron. The females of other species aren't built the way humans are — our upright posture makes it much more difficult to give birth. If you knew anything about history or even about the world today, you'd know that it's only modern medicine that keeps a certain percentage of women…

Wow, you sound like a bit of an asshole. A soldier might choose to enlist in the army, and yes, they can probably imagine that they're signing up for some awful shit, but I still wouldn't bitch at them for complaining about it. You came traumatized back from Afghanistan? Yeah, bitch all you want, as far as I'm…

My husband is also an amazing father, more than a coparent... but I think there can be a connection between the toughness of being a mother and the dad's ability to be a great parent. If you happen to have a traumatic birth, or if you're extremely conscious of what having a kid has done to your brain, body, career,…

The fun thing about actually having kids, especially the very start of it, is that you get the responsibility of caring for them but you also don't get much sleep, and you're very likely coming into the process with a major physical trauma to deal with too. I've become a lot more generous to shitty, shitty parents…

I'm a professor, and I also find annoying the student who always makes everything about them and their own experience. (Haven't had many myself, but dealt with the "nontraditional" students when I was an undergrad.) However, I'll say two things. First, becoming a mother has changed the way I read medieval texts (for…

I cannot agree with you more. I'm not a Texan, but I've lived there long enough to get annoyed when people say intolerant things about the place. Texan women — the Texans I know and the ones I don't — deserve so much better than this.

Does this mean the Brits are justified in wearing furs? Because I'm in Scotland right now, and it's been freaking freezing indoors. In July. Indoor heating is a magic North American thing, I'm inclined to think.

Seriously. Even the mouthbreathers who populate the DM comments section seemed to recognize how douchey this all is.

I was at a Giovanotti concert in a tiiiiiny club in NYC that was the most jammin, rockin thing ever, I mean, we were rightnup in his face and his sweat was dripping on us. Except half the audience had their cells out, and they weren't just taking a few snaps, but going at it the whole concert. Some even turned their…

YES! My father is a narcissist, and that letter sounded so much like what he has been saying for years, since my parents' divorce. He's always misunderstood, other people have turned his wife away from him, she has betrayed him, etc. And I suspect this kind of man thinks that if he is not beating the woman to a pulp,…

Well, I come from a country with only public universities. When I went, tuition at best research uni in the land, and one on par with the top ivies, cost between five and six thou. Less in USD. And there were still women who escorted to pay tuition. This tuition was payable with a summer job and maybe part time work…

I have a child. I still think it's selfish to act as though yours are the only ones that matter. I can want the best for my kid without necessarily wanting other kids to be in the educational gutter.