I’m not a medical expert, but I am currently pretty well informed about the risks of VBACs, since I had one a few months ago (successful, thankfully!). I feel like we don’t have enough details from both sides of this particular story, so I’ll just say some general things based on my experience & my research:

It would be grossly irresponsible to allow a VBAC labor, assuming it was active labor, to continue for 34 hours.

I had hyperemesis gravidarum. Felt fine until Week 7, but from then until the end of my fourth month it felt like having a terrible stomach flu all day and night, EVERY day and night. The nausea only ever went away for about ten minutes after each time I threw up, and then it came roaring back. I had IV hydrations,…

ok but i feel doubly bad for giggling at this.

well now i feel bad about making that fake aaron carter kinja account where i would post on any article about Lizzie Mcguire begging for her to take him back

Nah, his sad little attempt to belittle me can stay. This weekend I’m dying my hair purple and going to my Pride picnic in a mesh hoodie. I remain unbothered.

Um, what exactly is locking knees? And why does it make people faint? I’m very confused.

It has been reported that the passenger was flying on a pass, and was therefore required to adhere to a more formal dress code.

I can see how someone can pick up an imperative tone behind the lines “Stay with your man” and “Let me see you make him smile”—and go, “And what else? Make him a sandwich? Fuck off!”

I completely understand what you’re saying - I do. And I don’t think it’s “no big deal.”

My thing about the “of their time” isn’t race based, it’s age based. Old men have fucked up ideas and standards, regardless of their color. A woman asked one of the more radical 60s civil rights activists - don’t know if it was…

I’m not gonna defend him, because you’re right. But I will say - he’s a man of his time and, from all accounts, he treats most people badly, not just women.

There’s no doubt of his poetic brilliance. But artistic brilliance doesn’t make someone a good person. Some of our greatest artists were monsters.

(He told someone…

Old white man is pretty synonymous with sexism, usually ;)

That doesn’t diminish his talent or make his poetry any less potent.

I get it, this raspy-voiced, somewhat curmudgeony, old white dude isn’t popular around these parts but I’m not ashamed to admit I absolutely love him and have since I first heard him as a kid. My parents were of that era and had pretty great taste in music but Dylan was a glaring omission in their collection so it…

You’re so right how dare we have opinions about publicly stated words. We should all go back to college for literature first.

If it’s posted on social media, the intent has to be at least partially to publicly brag about your love life - not a beautiful sentiment, IMHO.

Oh my god. I never really thought about what might happen if they did do a gay bachelor. That would be so fun to watch.

It’s definitely possible to write about the person you love in a beautiful way, but it’s few and far between (and correlates highly with being a professional writer).

She has a rare terminal condition related to overconsumption of zinc and will die soon?

I’ve smuggled KinderSurprise eggs from Canada into the US often. Then I read about the woman who was facing a fine for bringing them over the border, said “Fuck THAT,” and started smuggling Tylenol 1s instead. ;)