Don’t forget all the fun side effects of not having kids, like PCOS linking to cancer. Either way you’re screwed!

Cost of birth with crappy insurance: $10k + your body

Yeah but it can also be pretty chill. Pushed 45 minutes, had an episiotomy which healed perfectly, was ready for sex after 4 weeks.  

Don’t forget the increased risk of blood clots after childbirth! This happened to my grandmother and she died at 29.

Yeah.... If you have kids, you should really talk to your Ob or Midwife about scheduling at pelvic physical therapy appointment about 8 weeks after childbirth, ESPECIALLY if you have forceps or a 3rd degree tear or worse. Stress incontinence after child birth is very common, like 1 in 3 women. Countries like France…

Anterior vaginal wall prolapse here! After 2 kids in 13 months. My pussy fell out!

My completely rational fear of pregnancy complications is my biggest obstacle to ever becoming pregnant.

I have been on that team for so long. Like... childbirth sounds horrifying by all accounts.

I don’t care what anyone says, I love Kim Kardashian. I have probably seen like 5 episodes of her show and much of what I know about her is from sites like these, but I really think she is hilarious and a cool person. She’s been around forever and honestly no one seems to ever have anything truly bad to say about her.…

Hathaway?!?!

Man, you guys owe this woman a 50-page apology. I don’t know why anybody hates her— someone didn’t like the sincerity level of a speech she gave and that’s why so many years of public abuse and loathing? Or something? But she sounds 10x smarter & more self-aware & more gracious than any writer here, in any event.

She always seems super nice and her advocacy for LGBT+ and women’s rights is pretty damn awesome. I still don’t understand where the hate came from.

Rich - thank you for that post script. We are all constantly evolving hopefully for the better, though it may seem like the regressives shout loudest right now. Really appreciate your honesty and humility with this.

I’ll pick Alan Thicke.

From the article: And while I’ve always laughed at the doomsday preppers who build bunkers and stockpile guns, I’ve recently started to consider that they might be on to something. Not for an apocalypse, necessarily, but for a disaster on an ordinary American scale: Hurricanes Katrina or Sandy, September 11th, even…

ah, dammit, fixed

Actually, I hear Pence’s search history is filled with restaurant porn, which shows the delights and perils that await unsuspecting men who dine with women other than their wives. Kinky shit, and it explains a lot.

I feel so bad for the twenty-somethings of today: if they are “honoured” enough to be asked to be a member of the wedding party, they end up shelling out THOUSANDS for bachelorette parties in Vegas, dresses, shoes, hair, make up, shower after shower, and wedding gift.

Dude. I have 13 cousins on one side of my family. There have 6 weddings on this side since 2009, and one of my cousins has been a bridesmaid in ALL BUT ONE.

Conversely, my former roommate was a bridesmaid at a wedding where the bridal party was selected based on their abilities to do hair, makeup and nails.

I had a bachelorette party... which pretty much just consisted of my closest friends (chicks & dudes) and my fiance, spending a weekend at my friend’s lakehouse with a bunch of booze. Bachelorette parties are only stupid if you let them be.