What a horrific but poetic image you ended on. Encapsulates the whole terrible thing.

Anti-diva isn't quite the right term for them, but a lot of the unapologetic female characters from Greek tragedy fit somewhere in this scheme. They tend to be pretty unapologetic about the terrible things they have to do.

Well, I did not wake up today expecting Kanye West to make me weep uncontrollably. My daughter is about the same age as North West and she's missing a grandparent too. This is lovely.

I'm glad that there are people like them in the world!

What makes me sad is that that kid's chances in life are so reduced by how she's treated at this age. It breaks my heart to hear about such small children being treated so poorly when as you say, there are people who would love nothing better than the opportunity to cherish a child.

Ahhh! There have apparently been two toddlers abandoned (but both are now okay)! (The one I was talking about was near Vancouver, BC.)

Between this, the little girl assaulted and left for dead, and the toddler abandoned at a bus stop, I'm done with the news until Christmas is over. Be good to each other.

She helped me get sleep through my pregnancy-related insomnia and I use her now ehn I'm having trouble sleeping. She rocks.

Did anyone else notice that in the Victoria's Secret show, the models of color were mostly in the "Exotic Travels" segment? Part and parcel of this entire phenomenon is treating women of color like a novelty. Not okay.

That's what I thought. Lupita gets her fashion sense from her mom, obviously. Simple and impactful. Love it. (Also love happy mom/adult daughter combos.)

I said this elsewhere, but there is a clear theme of girls being perceived as whiners and not believed, even in cases like these where the safest option is obviously to let the kid sit one out. Like, what is gained in your situation or in the case in this story? Not enough to warrant the forced activity.

I don't think it sounds like whining at all. After reading everyone else's stories, I think there's a common thread of disbelieving girls in the context of PE, which tends to be a pretty gendered environment already. Hmmmm...why would girls not want to participate? I was actually pretty athletic in school but really…

How aggravating that your teachers would do that to a child. And the whole letter-writing thing is clear-cut discrimination that should have been disciplined by administration.

I remember passing the NICU many time when I was walking in labour (it was on the labour ward) and always saying a silent prayer when I went past it. As another commenter said, we worry so much about how the baby comes. Yet we often forget that for many people, it is a tragedy. I wish this man and the rest of his…

Exactly. None of that is worth it.

Worse than the video they show you at prenatal class. But inspired similar feelings.

There's also a great bias against moms in academia even if you don't take mat. leave

The Shit I Didn't Do Today is my downfall. Especially as a mom, but also as an academic. (And this applies to lots of other jobs, too.) I'm deep in a project with a deadline in the next 2 days, but all I can think about is how little time I have spent with my daughter lately. And I recognize that I have the privilege…

That really does suck. A good, knowledgeable sales staff shouldn't have let that happen/should have told you more about the process. They're never really custom-made, but made to that company's sizing standards and then altered later. Someone who knows about dress shapes and body shapes should have spotted that before…

I do understand many of these issues, and I agree that the whole process is super-fraught for a million reasons, but as someone who worked in a bridal salon for years, I think you might be a tad unfair to the stores/their employees. Lots of stores do pressure you about time, but much of that is down to the…