I’ve felt mixed about it, but (HUGE disclaimer): I had a rice cooker and a slow cooker before. I passed them along to family members when we got the IP, but the IP isn’t quite as good at rice as the rice cooker was.

It was on TV last night, and I looked over at my husband and said, “You know, he’s the one who fucked up here. Like, she maybe overreacted, but that’s really debatable.”

The expectation that you sacrifice your ENTIRE LIFE to a new employer is some dark-end-of-capitalism bullshit. Not saying it’s not a thing that happens, but I’ll be over here, hoping that unions gain more strength in the future so this shit won’t happen.

Like I said, I haven’t seen the movie. It sounds like her friends *were* being dicks.

-Elizabeth Warren has never mentioned her ancestry to get a job. Jobs that people have claimed to have hired her based on race have said “we literally never knew about that until after she was hired.” They have said this many, many times.

That’s what that line at the end was for-- they aren’t dinging her for being poor here; they’re calling her a liar. She’s “all over the map” on being poor, because at one point, her family (including her AS A CHILD) lived in a slightly wealthier COUNTY. 

Especially as they’re ONLY name-dropping the county. Guys, counties are generally big and hold a lot of different income levels within them. Like, the one I grew up in and the one where I live now are proportionally (to the rest of the state) wealthy. However, BOTH counties also have cities with huge homelessness…

Disclaimer: I haven’t seen the movie.

To your first point: I think it’s because some of the chief consumers of romantic comedies are girls/women who feel like they don’t exactly fit in with the “norm.” The “I’m so different” idea is there to signal “...and therefore just like you.” I think this is one of the weaker aspects of modern romantic comedies, and…

I get that, but do people have to be homophobic while they criticize his homophobia?

He cheated on Meg Ryan like a billion times, so in this context, I wasn’t a fan. He does seem nice enough as a personality— one of those actors that just seems to really get a kick out of the fact that he gets to fuck around for a living.

You can count me as one for that stat. It was a huge fricking day! Our feet and my hair hurt!

Right- but at least any sane doula (or person) would have said, “IT HAS BEEN 12 HOURS WITHOUT PEEING GET TO A HOSPTIAL!”

HA! My very speedy no-intervention birth at a cheap hospital in my area was about $7K. I shudder to think what a long labor, epidural, c-section with long recovery would run you at a fancy hospital in the area!

SAME! It was such a great option! And the hospital birthing bed/chair was magical!

I was SO much more relaxed at the hospital— it was nice, knowing that if something went wrong, they’d be there!

Eh, if you’re medically supervised, it’s OK to go to 42. You gotta get frequent ultrasounds at that point, though. Like you said, *can* become dangerous. 

I think this is truly the answer. Hospitals NEED to be better, and then you’d have less crazies trying to avoid them. My local hospital happened to be awesome and had on-the-premises Nurse Midwives (NPs in my state) and had great stats on interventions and a range of options for pain relief and birthing positions etc.…

I think you’re right, in some ways. I’m just not sure what the solution is. “Less options” is a terrible answer. The level of anxiety around pregnancy, birth, and young-baby-dom (PARTICULARLY for first-time moms) is nuts. Society should be trying to make these women feel more relaxed and ready, but instead, we ramp…

It depends on the labor. My friend went on for DAYS, with doctors repeatedly insisting it was “false labor,” before showing up at the hospital because she hadn’t slept for like 48 hours, and the nurses were all SHOCKED that she’d gone on so long by herself.