Oh wow! Good on them for tearing down their fellow plus sized actress, I’m sure this kind of infighting will 100% lead to more roles for plus sized women in romantic comedies.

This was an interesting read. However I need to point out a few things: flamenco didn´t originate in gypsy communities, it predates the arrival of the Roma community to Spain in the 15th century, if you do some research you´ll find out the immense arabic and sephardic jewish influence in the origin of flamenco,…

Honestly, I thought that one was the least scary - it was so caught up in flowery language that it obscured anything scary in the story.

You’d be surprised at how many people have totally open, public Facebook pages. Some of them do it on purpose (they want views or have a specific person that they are enticing/trying to make jealous) but many are just old and ignorant. 

Thank you. It isn’t easy. I’ve actually written anonymously on the Internet (including here, I think) about what happened, every so often, at least as far back as 2006, both for reassurance that what Dr. Archibald did really was wrong — I always struggled with the thought that maybe he was right that there were…

A few years ago when I started going back to school, I came on Jezebel and posted about it and some people were saying “Go you!” And praising me for being a woman seeking a degree in engineering (I didn’t even mention I was 40 at the time, so not just a woman, but a middle aged woman). And it was so fantastic to have…

This isn’t something that Jezebel is likely to cover, but there’s a front-page story in the New York Times yesterday about a prominent pediatric endocrinologist who sexually abused dozens — and probably hundreds — of child patients during the period of nearly 30 years when he operated a “growth clinic” at the…

This is not the same but, my husband used to rape me and tried to kill me, one of my daughters looks a lot like him, she is so good and sweet and when I speak with her I don’t remember that.

In the documentary, 13, it clearly states that the incident of a white man raping a black woman is much higher than a black man raping a white woman. And it has been this way every year since slavery has ended, which is when these sort of crime statistics began being tracked.

Seriously. Convincing people that the free, healthy food breasts make for small humans is somehow shameful or tainted or damaging to children because it comes from breasts (and oh no, men like to sexualize those!) has got to be one of the most damaging things foods industry marketing has ever done.

My 20 month old just self weaned, he bit me and I screamed and he was done. Just like that. I’m happy but also sad, if I knew our last nursing session was happening I would have cherished more. Real mixed bag when they wean! 

Okay. I’m a weirdo mom.

Of all the scum and villainy on the internet, of all the racism and sexism and other prejudices, of all the bullying and trolling and getting people to kill themselves, by far the worst of it is targeted at moms, by moms.

My grandmother was 8 years old when she a refugee during WW2. She recalls living in a bombed out train station with about a dozen other people, all women and children, no adult men. Her mother was pregnant when they fled and gave birth in the station. Everyone was starving and my great-grandmother could not produce…

The WHO recommends nursing until age 2, and it is common for women in other countries to continue after that. 

As the risk of being judged mercilessly, here goes. I still nurse my 3+ year old. To dispel the assumptions: I don’t do it out of some sense of superiority or even because I think it’s “best”. Kid just hasn’t got around to weaning and I haven’t got sick enough of it yet to cut her off completely. I work full time, I…

The WHO recommends nursing until 2 and says the international average is between 3 and 7. Get over it America. I was done nursing my oldest when he was three, mostly because I was tandem nursing and exhausted and my body just told me he was the one who had to go. He’s 4 and would probably still be nursing if I had not…

I feel that anticipatory horror entirely. We have a friend whose son nursed until like...3, I think, and she had to wean him because she wanted to get pregnant again. In contrast, both of my kids kind of weaned themselves around 14-16 months, and it honestly made me a little sad, because I lost not only that special…

My sister, who breastfed at least one of her kids to 18 months, said the nice thing about BFing toddlers is they come to you to nurse, no having to schlep to the baby.