Aw, poor mama. Glad it all worked out for your family. :) Gotta focus on the good stuff and let the opinions of hateful people roll off, right?

My best friend finally carried a baby to full term about 18 months ago after going through many rounds of IVF, including one that resulted in an ectopic pregnancy that destroyed both of her fallopian tubes and almost killed her. I have never been so happy for anyone as I was for her when she got through to the end and…

Yay! The whole gang's here! I've just gotten to work so I'm surrounded by wine. Pallets of it. If you were here BaneKitty I'd shout you a case or two. Hey where's chattygal been lately? Anyone seen her?

Both you and Glen gave me a good hearty chuckle with my morning coffe (not Starbucks) so thank you both, my day can begin.

Well, we can't agree on religion, and that's ok. We can easily agree on liking the way you read it.

Jesus!

Learn to read graphs.

And as someone who is hopefully (crossing all the fingers!) conceiving via IVF in the next few weeks, I also hate the implication that doing it "differently" means the resulting children are "fake." No, they're not holograms. They come from sperm and egg. That's not synthetic. They're not creating the embryos from…

If my namesake has street cred with Jezzie Lesbos, then all the better.

Please tell me you're a hot chick, or just an average chick...


...or just a chick.

You just said I used a hateful stereotype of "fashion queen" to respond to you...never mind.

"What kind of milk in your latte?"

So in your head, calling someone a "fashion queen" is now equal to saying that gay men should not adopt children because it's icky? You really do have it all together...

As someone who needs extensive reproductive assistance, I wouldn't buy one scrap of anything from them ever.

I bet a lot of Etsy purveyors have terrible opinions as well.

Agreed and, as far as I'm concerned, nothing got lost in translation with respect to what they were getting at. In fact, I recall asking myself: how do you take back hateful words like that? The answer, of course, is: you don't, primarily because you can't, realistically-speaking.

As the parent of a child via a sperm donor, that synthetic child business makes these guys gross assholes.

LMAO, I mean, at the end, mostly. I was actually wondering about that, wondering if the south secretly got permission to ignore this idiocy (I hoped they did since I don't trust the south when it comes to the topic of race). Oh, FFS — I just read it again. OK, thanks for this, like an embellished earwig in my head:…

So was the idea to have a conversation with the barista who wrote RaceTogether on your cup? What if the line is 20+ people long and they chose you to talk about race while everyone is staring at you–now the cause of the line's holdup?! That would be anxiety to the max!

How Starbucks thought this was gonna go.