Thank you for writing such a nuanced piece about adoption. I’ve read so many pieces over the years that only take one worldview into account, that I was expecting this article to make me angry. It did not.

Gabrielle, I just wanted to say thank you for writing this. As a white dad to two adopted black kids I feel strongly it’s important to talk about the realities of adoption and what it really means for everyone involved. The adoption fairytale is incredibly destructive and only serves to erase the voices of first…

Thank you for this! As a woman who has realized you can’t have it all without a trust fund or loss of your sanity, I’m realizing more and more that I may not be ready to be a mother until my fertility clock has run out. And I really do want to be a mother at some point.

Those aren’t blinders, it’s the constitutional right to direct the upbringing of one’s children. You really couldn’t do a better job of supporting the author’s point that this is a reproductive rights issue, reading all that and responding with “we really should make it easier to do involuntary termination of parental…

Few things here, if you don’t want people to think you are racist, don’t were a MAGA hat. If you think, oh, that could be my son, you need to raise your children to be better people. And lets not forget, this whole thing happened because a Catholic high school decided to take a bus full of teenage boys to a protest…

Likely they want to clarify her condition. I suppose it’s similar, though not entirely comparable to say if your child has autism, and someone said they had down syndrome. You would likely correct them.

Men convincing women that they are just too “inept” to care for the children they helped bring into the world is one of the oldest and most successful long-cons ever invented.

Did someone mention “Fyre Festival”?!

DTMFA.

I survived having a birthday! My wretched mother ruined every one I ever had in some way, and still tries. As a result and probably from the CPTSD of growing up with a narcissistic family that scapegoated me since I was born, I usually feel horrible on my birthday, worthless and unloved. And I felt like that, to the…

So are we just going to all pretend that the only way women make money is by being half naked or strippers or something? Like, I’m not trying to be sex negative or anti-sex worker, but why not show herself as a boss in a boardroom making paper that way? Why does it always have to be titties and ass? This may be a…

Three years ago, my beloved father in law died on Christmas day. It was horrible. Fast forward and as I am typing this on a bathroom break, I am watching as my husband of 22 years dies from metastatic brain cancer. Although filed with morphine sulphate liquid, he is restless beyond belief and unable to communicate…

Most people would, they keep making “ugly sweater” versions of ostensibly everything nowadays. I thought the point was it was a sweater you’d never actually wear?

Come on now she's obviously not an anti vaxxer. She never said anything about life saving medicines, and the pharmaceutical industry is evil and full of poisons so. 

Much like our current Republican Congress working to appease despots everywhere for years, even murderous ones who come equipped with bone saws. Murder and dismemberment of US residents under our protection, that’s okay with them. We are the appeasers at the moment. Putin seizing Crimea and holding Ukrainian sailors…

I had been a poor student for years, sleeping on an air mattress in a sleeping bag, when my mom asked me what I wanted for Christmas. I told her I wanted a duvet to replace my sleeping bag and a real suitcase to replace a weathered duffel bag. She implied she had some extra money that year and asked if I had a…

This gift wasn’t given to me personally but it was still pretty awful from my perspective:

Never. She still maintains someone broke in and left residue on spoons I didn’t clean well enough as the main source.  In the sugar is her backup.  She doesn’t acknowledge the story was clearly bullshit to everyone even as they looked the other way.  I’m almost 48 now.  I still remember the messed up hallucinations…

Did she ever, to this day, apologize? What a traumatic thing to suffer because of your careless drug addicted mother. Luckily, all of the times my mom rented our basement out as a meth lab didn’t result in our house blowing up.

The one topic that consistently left students flabbergasted was the idea...that it doesn’t take a dark alleyway and a ski mask to make a woman feel unsafe.