I get what you’re saying, I guess, but she does HAVE cancer, she’s not going out and speaking about someone else’s lived experience — it’s her own. I would honestly posit that having cancer sucks and you’re probably going to feel crappy about yourself regardless of whether one celebrity seems to hold up alright, and…

I think she gets to call HER cancer whatever she likes. She doesn’t owe to other people to be sick the way they approve. She has her experience,your friend has hers,other people have theirs. And talking about HER experience doesn’t in no way makes her responsible for other people expectations or their lack of empathy.

In before this comment section gets loaded down with people who hate Wurtzel. Welp, I love her. Not everything she writes is a win (that NYMag piece a few years back was pretty terrible), but when she’s good, she is great. Bitch was awesome (where she was the only, and I mean the ONLY feminist who tried to defend Amy…

the friend in question now works in the IT department for a big company, if you want to split hairs. but i'm pretty sure you shouldn't degrade the hard work of people who work day-in-day-out at the genius bar servicing people's technology by claiming they don't...work IT.

You say that as if "talented" writers all have equal access to the market (publishing houses, editors, best-sellers lists) or that all talented individuals have equal insight into different worlds. Neither of those things is true. Pushing oneself beyond the best-sellers lists to read different perspectives on the…

The scholarly study of that rumor had decided it's not true, though.

How hard is it for people to just go to sleep earlier if they know they have to be up earlier, especially when it's their routine?

But it didn't really address that either. The specifics of her case from a professional mental healthcare worker wasn't explored. This was a single voice from a person is arguably not in control of all of her mental faculties, and can't even admit that she has a problem. So what's to learn?

Because there is no information about phantom pregnancies in this article, other than anecdotes. It serves neither to inform or enlighten. It's just one woman's story, who I doubt even the author believes. Had she pitched her story to bigger publications, I'm sure they wouldn't have taken the bait. So what is the…

They also didn't seem to get consent from anyone with a stable mental status. Besides John I guess, but I don't think he's a close enough relation to say her statements could be released.

Your pesky ethics dilemma is totally justified and normal. This article doesn't take a clinical approach to mental illness, it takes a sensational approach. It's trivializing, really and you're not the only one offended by it.

For all of you just saying she's crazy, should be committed or whatever, please realize that she is experiencing actual pregnancy symptoms. There was a great-aunt on my dad's side who apparently went through something like this back in the '40s. She wasn't pregnant and it was conclusively proven she'd never been…

This is just my opinion but I find the publication of this essay to be a bit premature. You really ought to have waited until she had passed 10 months or even a year, and continued to speak with her and present the way she dealt with the eventual non-birth of the non-baby. The way it's written, this essay seems…

I'm probably going to regret asking this, but how exactly are mental illness or paying for healthcare white people problems?

I'm not totally comfortable with this article.

I'm still trying to figure out why this article is leaving a bad taste in my mouth. I'm sure there's some weird co-dependency thing going on with the enabling "John". I don't know what you call it, medically, but I'm calling it a "folie a deux".

While I'm as much a voyeur into these kind of stories as anyone else, I feel like this article is pretty exploitative. It's clear that this poor woman is not pregnant and has some serious mental health issues, not related at all to this "phantom pregnancy." I just don't see the point of this, other than informing that…

Amusingly enough, in small rural farming communities that have been known to have good groundwater, Coke likes to move their plants there. What happens over the next few years is fascinating. Basically, the Coke bottling plant begins to use up a huge portion of the groundwater faster than it replenishes, leading to…

Not an MRA, but a martial artist here. My objection to the groin kick is that it is pretty easy to defend against. If you get the chance, by all means go for it. But, don't be overly dependant on it or assume that you will get that chance.

YES TO NUMBER 1! Tests are stupid, discussions and lab work are key.

A few weeks ago, my neighbor's kid failed a biology test on natural selection and evolution. Since I'm a huge nerd, his parents asked if I could give any pointers. I was depressed to see nothing but a very dry text book as study material and they had…