Except for when certain hospitals swing the opposite way and fetishize their natural childbirth rates at the expense of the mother’s health. That was the case in my situation. I delivered at the hospital with the lowest C-section rate in the nation, and I 1000% should have had a C section. They broke my pelvis and…

i hope this doesn’t go the way of the “breast is best” movement. it is a disaster. i had the absolute worst experience due to it in the hospital. my daughter wouldn’t breast feed and she was loosing a lot of weight. i almost had to stay longer than the 3 days i had to after the c-section, but they wouldn’t give me…

If following directions is a prerequisite to flying, then half the adult population just lost the privilege of air travel. You know what’s annoying? Listening to flight attendants have to tell a bunch of grown ass adults to buckle their seatbelts and put their laptops away, over and over and over again. I save all of…

4 months is the perfect time to fly with a kid. They aren’t mobile. They sleep when milk drunk and on a familiar person but also respond positively to external stimuli like stuffed animals and funny faces.

As a pretty frequent flyer, I have to say, never once have I encountered a baby that has seriously disrupted my flight. On the other hand, toddlers kicking seats with the parents ignoring them and drunk adults behaving badly... on our last long haul flight (NZ to Spain, so 40ish hours in transit) my husband ended up…

I’m pretty sure it’s the idea that people, actually women, should be thinking about other fucking adults’ inconvenience for coming into contact with us or our children all the goddamn time. Why is that necessary? As long as they are being reasonable parents why do they have to apologize preemptively for existing. It’s…

Right? When I am stuck on a flight and some baby is crying nearby (or even if one is just there) and some parent does the whole “I’m sorry” I make a point to actually just say “I don’t care. It’s a baby. We will all live. Have a nice flight.”

One time I flew on a 15 hour international flight with a very unhappy 11 month old. She finally passed out on me after I sang her to sleep. I didn't think I was so loud but the lady sitting in the aisle across leaned over and said, "I love how you just kept singing to her while she was crying. You were so calm, it…

THIS. I have travelled with my babies and I felt like I was managing a time bomb. Even if the baby isn’t crying, there is a palpable judgement and dread from some other passengers. A smile for me or the baby really helped me not to be a ball of nerves the whole time 

Seriously. I invested in noise cancelling headphones (a joy on planes, also without crying babies) and always bring earplugs.

I was on a relatively short flight (around 4 hours) once and there was a baby at the front of the plane pretty much screaming the entire flight. The parents were doing all they could to calm the child, even the flight attendants pitched in to try and help, but nothing was working. That entire flight I just felt bad…

I’ve had some kind souls spend hours playing peek-a-boo with my kids on planes, it was much appreciated.  

Does that mean the girl I went to school with who is a virgin flight attendant will also stop taking group selfies before and after each flight and filling up my Facebook feed? Or will it mean they’re just less luminescent?

Thank you. I promise to not let my children kick your seat or scream in your ear and I promise to change their diapers only where appropriate and do what I can to reduce the chaos but for the love of god, don’t expect me or anyone else to not have children or for them not to do the shit children do (giggle, talk too…

I's the fact makeup is compulsory for women. Male and female flight attendants wear uniform and have to be well groomed. But only women have to spend time and money applying makeup, although it contributes nothing to their ability to do the job.

“Welcome to 2019, where airlines are just beginning to see women flight attendants as people and not sexualized playthings that happen to come with the plane!”

Lauda Air (since absorbed into Austrian Airlines, in 2013) used to have all their flight attendants, male and female, in Levi’s jeans with red gingham shirts. A simple, unisex look that flatters everyone and sexualizes no one. I only flew them once (I think from Lisbon to Barcelona or some such short haul), but never…

What does a guy whose relatives died in the Holocaust, whose family fled to America as refugees to escape persecution, and whose identity is the subject of torch-carrying Trump nazis screaming “Jews will not replace us!” know about being a minority, right? This is a dumb and false line of attack.

I used to know a guy who is pretty high up in Baylor’s admin. This ... sounds like his brand.

Keep promoting mediocre white guys to positions of power, academia. It’s working out really well for everyone.

You can definitely be a garbage human being in real life without being the villain from a movie.