This is absolute bullshit. I have THREE rescues, including a 100+lb Maremmano that had HALF OF HIS TEETH KNOCKED OUT WITH A GODDAMN BASEBALL BAT when he was a year old - beaten DAILY by a drunken owner. He was a bit difficult at first (duh) and we had to gently throw something at him to wake him up out of a sound…

I think we read different articles. The author isn’t criticizing Nanjiani and Aziz for depicting interracial relationships per se, but for placing white women as the paragon of attractiveness—and noting the depiction of women of color continues to suffer as a result. Indeed, she wrote

But neither Kumail’s character nor Aziz’s character ever portrayed or acted as if whiteness as an “ultimate prize,” so why hold up these works as examples? Why call them masturbatory fantasies? The first girl Aziz falls for in the second season is a black woman who is lovely and smart and funny and in no way a…

I am biracial and I really appreciated this piece. She is not attacking biracial people, she is (gently) critiquing the idea of white womanhood as aspirational across brown cultures.

How is advocating for WOC to be romantic leads considered hateful?

omg, what?? can it be? is this....good news? HAPPY DANCE TIME

And if, god forbid, that abortion happened because of a rape, i can imagine that the extra time off to get mental-health support would be an advantage for a woman, along with the time to physically recover, as you said.

It sounds more reasonable when you compare it to the time off for live births - we get 18 weeks maternity leave for the birth mom, 5 weeks paternity leave for the dad, and 32 weeks parental leave that can be split either way for a total of 55 weeks.

Yeah, and quite frankly if someone really didn’t want to have a baby that much, maybe it would be best if they, you know, didn’t have a baby.

I didn’t know about the maternity leave for abortion part until we had a genetic screening scare and were given our options by our midwife (also paid for by our health insurance if any non-Québécoise are wondering). This is what health policy looks like when the lawmakers trust women and their doctors! Looking at a…

Damn. I didn’t even get that for having a baby via c-section who was hospitalized for 11 days.

They truly believe the idea that women decide on a whim to have an abortion, which is why they have passed laws forcing women to listen to the heartbeat (wimmens being such emotional creatures, they will change their minds if their heartstrings are tugged.) Or try to scare women with false information about cancer or…

This is going to sound crazy, but in Quebec, not only are medically recommended abortions performed in hospitals and paid for by our health insurance, but if you have ANY pregnancy termination after 19 weeks, be it by miscarriage or abortion for any reason, you are eligible for 18 weeks of government paid maternity…

Is there actually a single example, anywhere, of a woman getting a late-term abortion because “ew I just can’t have this baby right now!”

Exactly. It’s the wrong assumption that women just blithely choose to have late term abortions for no reason than convenience. That is simply not true. It’s a matter of whether our society trusts women to use their own judgment or not.

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Plus lots of physical defects can’t be tested for at all so you don’t know until the 20-22 week ultrasound, which can very easily put you in the position of having to make a choice without having time to seek a second opinion. You can also end up in a situation where you have to wait 6 weeks for the final results of…

The reason these laws are so insidious is that they torture people when they are at their most vulnerable. I can’t envision too many situations where a woman would get an abortion past 24 weeks without a compelling reason. So these laws exist to stop the .0002% (figure is my estimation) who would want to abort a…

I have always been pro-choice, but pregnancy has increased my conviction tenfold. I live in NY and had amnio at 17 weeks. The safest time to get amnio is between 16-18 weeks, and it can take 3 weeks to get the full results. That means, by the time you find out your child has a genetic defect, you could be 21 weeks…

OMG. I live here, and I had no idea.