I’m 8 months pregnant now and am consistently appalled at how much pressure is on pregnant women to work out. I was moderately active pre-pregnancy and in the first/second trimesters but am now just fatigued from working full time, planning for baby, getting the house ready, etc. I’m also now feeling gigantic and the…

The best thing I’ve learned from being a mom is that I need to put some space between me and the rest of the world and own my own choices.

It’s even in these comments. The words you constantly hear are “but why even take the risk?”

Mothers can do literally nothing that pleases the world.

How is this enforceable? Are they going to station a police officer to watch her 24/7 and make damn sure that baby doesn’t latch on? This is ridiculous and the father who started all of this needs a good punch in the throat.

Because by all accounts they don’t seem “loving.” It sounds like they were weirdly religious and that she was raised in somewhat of a cult-like atmosphere. Also, her brother is being accused and prosecuted for sexual abuse of a minor (one of her other brothers) and her parents seem to be blaming her for it. So they…

And her doing this totally discredits the legitimate use of theory to understand identity. She’s endangering the progress made in getting people to recognize gender as fluid and sexuality as more than mutually exclusive checkboxes. She is fucking it up for lots of people.

You do realize that the southern United States is not the only example of slavery in the history of the world, right?

“Here’s the only litmus test to being black: Would you have been a slave? Okay, then. Welcome”

Rachel, sweetheart: you’re self-absorbed, you’re in love with the sound of your own voice, you steal things from black people and claim them as your own, and you tell black people what to think. I’d say QUITE A FEW things about being white describe who you are PERFECTLY. Shit, you sued Howard for reverse racism, which…

Dolezal was first asked if she had ever straight-up lied to someone about her race. She replied, “No, because never have I been asked, ‘are you human or are you not human?’ Race as a construct has a fluid understanding. So I would say no.”

Same here, all my best stories are from my time in the electronics service industry. Like Pinkham suggests, NAW is a good place to submit them.

Back when we were struggling to conceive, I schooled an anti-choice acquaintance on why we couldn’t “just adopt” a baby (~$60K in fees, Guatemala closed its program, rejection from other international programs for my hearing loss and his Crohn’s, heartbreak over a state-side mom who changed her mind). She nodded her…

The venn diagram between people who say, “Just adopt” and people who don’t know the first fucking thing about adoption is pretty much a circle. I’d love to see them try it, except they probably shouldn’t be exposed to children.

Passion of the Christ, which we can all agree was basically a torture snuff film, brought the craziest people out of the woodwork. According to a friend who worked at the local theater at the time, more than half the staff just straight up quit over the abuse they got from people so ignorant and belligerent. This…

Maybe this is the week that white people finally figure out that impersonating other races is just not cool, regardless of “intent”.

She certainly seems to think so!

I just watched this the other day (finally gave in after Netflix kept displaying it front and center whenever I logged in). I thought it was really interesting, and the film makers got lucky that they found so many compelling women to document. One of the reasons they didn’t mention that Riley also acts in porn is…

I’ve gone back and forth on how i feel about this subject, but this documentary really bothered me, especially the clips they showed from the forced blow job website. There is scene of the “Duke University Porn Star” being called a ‘feminatzi’ on camera and then receiving forceful oral sex to the point where she…

Here’s the thing that is always interesting to me about Jez’s coverage of porn: There’s always a defense of the industry and a statement that being in porn can be a great experience, etc. - even in an article like this one that in fact describes negative experiences had by many people. Yet in articles about sexual…