Although the Queen isn’t formally educated, I’m sure she knows that “Africa” has 54 different countries. You don’t just “go” there. While she may not be sensitive to the colonial implications, I doubt she’d order her grandchild’s family to live on an entire continent.

Well no because the guy made a racist tweet, he immediately got sacked, he tweeted sorry, and he stayed sacked.

That chimpanzee scandal didn’t last very long then?

I, too, find it impossible to believe that the Queen “screamed” at Meghan or anyone else in the last 50 years. I don’t believe there’s much drama there at all, and if there were it would be a cold, icy stare and extremely uncomfortable silence type of drama, not a screaming type of drama. Archie is the Queen’s eighth…

Our bodies know what to do, but also that thing it should do also wreaks havoc.

Here’s the problem... these women will have someone by their side saying this was a “wanted” pregnancy. There will be medical records that establish their “bona fides,”if you will, establishing that they’re not “one of THOSE women.” It’s much easier to target and prosecute women without the means to get to a doctor…

My mom’s first pregnancy, a total horror show that would come off as a contrived and exploitative if adapted into a drama, went pear-shaped because the Air Force physician attending her didn’t think her nausea was due to pregnancy and prescribed her thalidomide. No prizes for guessing how that went.

I’ve said so many times that it’s a miracle humans have lasted this long, given how often our bodies have no idea what to do during pregnancy, childbirth and child-rearing (specifically breastfeeding). Criminalizing something that happens naturally all the time isn’t going to end well. 

The anti-abortion movement has sworn up, down, and sideways for 40+ years that women are the victims and no woman could ever possibly be prosecuted for getting an abortion or having a miscarriage. They’ve kept up with these shameless lies even when some of them slip up and admit the truth, even when women are being…

I have a video saved on my phone and computer, it’s of us at PT when she’s about a year and a half and taking her first steps.

I work with children with disabilities. For the past 3 months, I have been working with a 7-year-old who had a stroke. He is back to walking recently. Last week, I walked into his 2nd-grade classroom to get him. He was sitting with a group of kids on the floor doing some lesson. He saw me and immediately got up on his…

Re: Walking,

God this is so eerily similar to what happened to me, same injury, generally same set of circumstances (had been drinking but not overly so), same general consequence. Thank you for sharing this experience. It brings me back to that scary time but it’s also oddly cathartic for someone to go through something so…

Can’t tell you how many text messages I exchanged with friends seriously worrying about the health of a person I have never met and will likely never meet.

Oh my fucking god, Drew! I’m so sorry that you went through that and I’m so fucking happy you’re alive! To share I went through something milder than that last year. I had 3-4 episodes where I was shaking badly. One time when I was going to work and it was so bad I couldn’t put the lid on my coffee; a stranger had to…

Jesus, man. This is harrowing. Like everyone else in the comments, I’m glad things didn’t go differently.

Right about here is where I advocate an uprising and restore the power back to the people. The current administration is stripping citizens of their rights in the name of their god. Our democracy has failed and now is the time to fight to restore it. 

What kind of deity are you? You would have been worshipped if you had shown up at my house after my kids were born.

I have SERIOUS THOUGHTS about baby gifts.

For real. When my best friend had her second baby, I sent a few things for the kid (who was destined for hand-me-downs anyway) and the older sibling, but filled the box with tons of “so you’re going to be living on the couch for the next two weeks” goodies. Think magazines with 45's face blacked out, crossword…