#4 cites “scaring the shit out the commentariat”. That can only be referencing her experience with childbirth and vaginal tearing/issues. Then you said you “hope she’s happy” with scaring people. That is straight up acting like she shouldn’t talk about her real experience with birth and the physical ramifications…

I rarely comment on Jezebel anymore, but the people claiming this article is “scaring” women about birth for shock value...no. Birth is painful and scary for a lot of women. It can and does have permanent physical consequences of all kinds. Including really difficult ones like this.

I had my daughter 5 1/2 months ago.…

I had a baby 5 1/2 months ago vaginally. I went 12 hours without an epidural but had similar dilation issues. My labor was another 14 hrs and I took the epidural. I pushed for over 3 hours and had one tear. All in all it took me 26 hours to give birth to my daughter, who is very happy and healthy. Childbirth IS scary…

I just lived in Germany for 2 years and Germans, like many Europeans, LOVE to claim they don't have issues like this. That it's always some "American" over sensitivity or lack of directness. They also like to claim that both sexism and racism are problems they don't have, culturally or individually. They say this…

That's because your comment is kind of a trivial observation about how they look to you, like they're only supposed to look one way forever, and not talk about serious things like being accosted and harangued by photographers with their kids. It was an odd comment in context.

I did not say "never", I said you arguing that "most" was egregious and unfounded. And pointless. It doesn't really matter, once someone is there, what matters is getting them help. Because whatever "choices" lead to addiction, once there, people can't just stop because they want to. So, I don't really care and think…

I don't think you can say that "most" addicts arrived there without any underlying issues. 1. How would you know? 2. You're doing a lot of assuming because it "proves" your argument without proof. That's not the same as a fact.

I had a kidney stone 2 years ago and was given morphine. I was in more physical pain that I had ever been in my life and I've never taken anything stronger than Aleve before. It was, I am not ashamed to say, euphoric for me. The bliss of simply. not. caring. was unbelievable. I'm an anxious person by nature and not…

You're assuming he was mentally stable enough to make rational decisions. People with mental illnesses just want the feelings, which feel overwhelming and impossible to overcome, to stop. So they sometimes pick dangerous methods of self medicating that, were they not in pain, they would not. When people do things they…

A lot of people seem stuck on this idea of "choosing" addiction, like people sit down and say to themselves "I'm going to take this substance I know is bad and keep at it until I'm a shell of a person who, at best, may eventually get treated and recover from this for the rest of my life". That's...not real common.…

Being entitled to an opinion that you chose to express publicly does not mean you get to not be called on it when it's shitty, un-empathetic, and pointless. Great, you think his death was dumb and all addicts who OD are dumb. Fantastic. You have now expressed that. I'm sure it was incredibly vital for you to express…

1. Someone's real life sexual preferences don't influence whether or not I think they are beautiful.

Guh. Him, Michael Fassbender, and Richard Armitage all have these ridiculously compelling faces. Dead. Completely dead.

I dunno about clam porn, but tentacle/Lovecraftian/Chthulu porn definitely already exists. If you can think of it, someone, somewhere, has written a slash fic of it.

Troll fail, try harder.

There was actually just an article about Amazon cracking down on both incest and monster porn because of the beastiality over tones. A bunch of these books got pulled for the titles/covers/descriptions and had to be resubmitted with proper info. I think it's pretty shitty to not just say what your book is about…

I love your name so much. Additionally: I went on a quest to find LOTR and other nerdy gifs awhile back to deal with trolls. They also come in handy for stuff like this when my brain just can't take any more awfulness.

I can't.

And yet Vice just recently had an article where writer posited that, for 2014, feminists should stop talking about people being "mean" to them online because it's never resulted in irl problems. Only it has and online harassment, in and of itself, is time consuming, exhausting, and wrong. Hence why I'm glad to see…

I'd like to avoid giving the obvious trolls any more direct comments, so I'm going to post a more general response for anyone who thinks this story seems "over the top".