From what I’ve read, if you are not pregnant and you get Zika, you’ll be fine and you become immune. If you know you have it, you should wait at least 8 weeks before trying to get pregnant, I think? Anyway.. long story short, if you get it now but don’t plan to have kids soon you’ll be fine.

Question, because I haven’t bothered to read any of the actual documentation about Zika...if you contract Zika while not pregnant, does it impact you for life and potential future pregnancies? As someone of child-bearing age who is contemplating having another kid at some point, I’d like to know if I should be extra…

I think it is because bugs can’t typically stand up to the pressure of the beauty norms in LA.

Literally just left my midwife’s office and my question of the day was “WAH ZIKA” and she was totally chill about it and told me not to worry. Then I have to read this shit.

I am in south Texas and stressed the eff out over this. It’s going to be hot as ballz this summer so I think I’ll just bathe in DEET everyday to…

I am newly preggo and have to go on a work trip from LA to NYC at the end of June. I’m really afraid but I can’t say no, and in my industry (as well as so many others), it’s not a good idea to tell people at the start of a project that you’re knocked up. So I guess I’m going to go, melt in long sleeves and douse…

On Friday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that 157 pregnant women in the United States and 122 in its territories (predominantly in Puerto Rico) had tested positive for the Zika Virus. Fewer than 12 of these women have had miscarriages or babies born with defects, according to Reuters.

Think about all the pregnant women in the US. If they KNOW there are 157 I’m going to guess there are many more. And since it travels by mosquito and from partners, this number will continue to rise. Yikes. Rough time to be pregnant in the US. Well, when isn’t it?

Holy shit, this bitch’s self-regard! In the first para of that little self-loving blog post, she describes how a former boss she calls “Cunt Chocula” hated her from the beginning, and says, “I can understand why, I’m a hot little blonde with a well-connected family from the Upper East Side of Manhattan.”

... holy shit this bitch

THIS. After working in therapeutic group homes with kids everyone else has given up on, I just want to scream to the world: PEOPLE SUFFERING FROM MENTAL HEALTH DISORDERS STILL HAVE VALUE AND THEIR LIVES DO TOO.

I lost my best friend with shizophrenia to suicide and it was one of the worst things I ever read. If anyone ever said such things about her to me they’d get straight decked. The stigma is terrible. Love to your brother. Living with it takes immense strength so I know he’s strong. I couldn’t have hated it more.…

I was a little bit surprised at how many Jez/Kinja people “moved” over there during some of the inter-internet drama of a few months ago. I wonder (and hope) that maybe they’ll be driven back here by the drivel over there.

“I sold my friend the drugs she used to overdose, and I went to prison, but I learned *sooo* much about myself in the process ❤️”

Yeah I’m off xoJane totally. xoVain is ok sometimes, but even they just don’t do it for me. It’s a lot of “Here are 6 great products for your hair that don’t have silicones!” and then the entire list is products with silicones. I don’t have time for that bullshit.

My brother has schizophrenia. His life has value. I could never imagine writing something like that about him. Just FYI people, stop making psycho or schizo into a slur. Stigma is a real problem and contributes to the devaluing of the lives of people who have thought disorders.

*sounds of Bob Belcher GROANING*

Okay can we talk about xoJane lately?? The other day I read the one from the woman who says that she thinks straight men just become gynecologists to grope women and I just

Holy shit yes. I hadn’t been by the site in about three or four years, and a couple weeks ago I found myself there and was just appalled. It’s all horrific click-bait headlines from awful people telling awful stories about awful things.

“judgmental, self-absorbed, and unreflective,” should be xoJane’s tagline.

“The Hopkins team themselves reiterated that their findings only led them to conclude that they need to do more research”