Verbal non-consent =/= Non verbal consent.

These analogies don’t fit this situation:

And the really controversial part of the article that you don’t even want to think about apparently, is that the author even admitted that this is nearly identical to what she does to guys she is enthusiastically consenting to.

What is the US government ‘cracking down’ on here, exactly? Coming to the USA to have a baby is a VALID reason to have a visa. Where I work we have a form letter that we prepare for potential patients to come for their babies. All they need to show the visa officers are the letter from my hospital saying they have a…

Take advantage of what? The male/female income-gap? The wonderful fourth amendment that make these foreigners more likely to be accidentally murdered in the US? Systematic racism that will work against them for the rest of their lives? Giving Uncle Sam a dollar every time Auntie Jennie buys you a watch for your…

It’s not $15K for the medical fees. It’s more like something between $3K to $8K for a single-child vaginal delivery. It fluctuates depending on the State and on complications (vaginal single-births is cheapest; Caesarean multiples are the most expensive; if you come in your 3rd trimester, you get a better deal too).

In the words of Regina George: "Boo, you whore."

OMG? It snows in Nigeria?????

Boys and girls ranging in age from ten to eighteen, all communally bathing naked together. No, that doesn't sound like a recipe for disaster at all.

WTF? In Nigeria? You buy birth control from the pharmacy at the corner. The only drug I've ever needed a prescription for was - weirdly - cough medicine because apparently, some dudes in the North have been using it to get an alcohol fix. But other than that, you can buy anything from Clomid to steroids from your…

Most older Nigerian families - even Christian Igbos - that I know don't co-sleep if they can afford it. It's the young'uns that do it - it's a generational thing.

Food for thought: what makes you think I'm a Westerner?

It's interesting that you conclude with the 'don't speak for my culture to me' when you've been pretty much speaking for close to a hundred other cultures on their behalf. You're not an authority on the entire Igbo-speaking community of Nigeria, and you're certainly not an authority on the entirety of the South.…

The Igbos aren't homogenous either, and there are a lot of people who either don't self - identify as Igbos or aren't accreted as Igbos by the Eastern states. Igbo, the word, is also spelt in English and varies like most words in the vocabulary from dialect to dialect.

you're Igbo. That's South East, right? There are Yoruba in the west, Igarra, Edo, Ishan, Itsekiri, Ijaw (like your President), Efik, Urhobo, etc. I've read that there may be up to a hundred unique tribes in the South. Maybe the Ibos speak with one voice, but they can't speak for everyone else. Language is not…

southern Nigeria is far more heterogenous than the north. There are tribes in the south where child brides are the norm, where female genital mutilation is enforced.

Or it could be both. We're not in her heads. Considering that many actors/directors are pushing it other to stay on the line of supporters for the likes of Warren and Roman Polanski, her concern about her image seems to me to be an exception, not the rule.

What job offer article? Please post a link.

After reading over a 100 comments, I'd just like to remark - in the slim chance it hasn't been said already - that people who suffer from mental illness really do not like it being equated to chemical addiction.