this is why she probably waited. having to go through all these hoops if you’re poor and live far from clinics etc can create a substantial burden and take a lot of time.

thank you. There is a way to look at this as a medical procedure that went horribly wrong and was questionably handled by the attending medical team. It’s not a question of “murdering a baby” versus not doing so. It’s an ethical dilemma to be sure, the woman didn’t want the baby, she carried out an act to end the life…

I want to know more about how Patty got her nickname. Maybe I don’t.

My kids are 8 and 5. this is the first year they followed directions at all well enough to have a photographer take our photo and for it to be christmas card worthy to pass pinterest requirements. i believe it simply cannot be done with younger children.

I agree. Catriona is very very good, but Sam crackles when he’s onscreen — he’s that good. Perhaps because the bulk of his work only came at the end whereas she was stellar the whole way through? Hoping these nods are going to build momentum for the show for next season when shit really starts hitting the fan in the…

I love everything about this list. Especially that Outlander and Sarah Hay from Flesh and Bone were recognized.

oh my god thank you so much for this. Sorry, but I am so sick of people who are 30 and want congratulations for hosting a dinner party on real plates and serving food that wasn’t delivered. I was married at 23, bought a house at 24, and have “adulted” for 10 years now. I have two almost three kids and DAILY i hear…

i honestly don’t know. I think it’s a good question worth exploring. Right now we have poor people who manage to own cars and have health insurance, and we have poor people that cannot do so. Since “the right to bear arms” is in the constitution I agree it makes it stickier. Then again, guns aren’t free. They can be…

The only reason I can see that being a problem tho, really, is if we continue to insist that gun ownership is a right. Poor people can’t always afford cars due to the cost of insurance, maintenance, etc, and we aren’t worried about pricing them out. But, key difference is cars aren’t a right. Is owning a pistol really…

I just meant that there are so many ways to work/go to school that it doesn’t have to be all or nothing. and that i don’t think there’s really a right answer either. I’ll make my kids work but I think i’ll try and find a better solution than what my parents did, because I definitely never felt like I HAD to work, just…

There’s a lot of room between “taking out your own loans and paying your own room and board and working 35hrs a week” and “having college paid for but working a part time job for play money”. The first was my husband’s experience. His parents absolutely could have afforded college for him but refused to do so, saying…

the vast majority of 2014 was an incredibly stressful year for me, and I 1000% justified my drinking with cutsey “mommy needs a glass” or “mommy needs a time out” or whatever. When really it was, “mommy is going to finish this whole goddamn bottle because I have no other way of coping with the unbelieveable stress in…

i have two, almost three children. having kids is hard but it’s not THAT hard. it’s living up to the expectations everyone else has for you that does make things incredibly difficult. I try to shut it out because after my first child, I gave into it for the first 6 months or so, and then I had a full blown PPD…

all i wanted to eat. cranberry sauce. yes yes please.

i didn’t love it, but it was exactly like the book, right? I wanted more Peeta / Katniss falling in love, and was hoping for a deviation from the novel on that concept but since at least they stuck to the book I can’t totally complain. Someone in my theater did yell out “THAT IS AN ASIAN BABY” which make me laugh.

when it happens to enough people that you know, yeah that’s enough for me to assume it’s going to happen. It is not established through rigorous studies because reporting these kinds of things are nearly impossible. “I didn’t get that promotion because I turned my boss down” Can you prove that? how DOES one prove…

why do women have to stand up for themselves? Why can’t men realize that giving backrubs without asking or making comments about needing their dick sucked or how they enjoy the view when a 16 year old bends over is WRONG?! (purely going from the article, since you seem to want documented facts). A 28-year old man…

I’m pregnant with my third child, and my first two experiences with labor and delivery mirror exactly what you’ve said. Each child had a different doctor in a different hospital with different insurance in a different city. Both experiences with “doctors” were extremely similar to how she describes what a midwife…

the last book is messy and doesn’t tie up nicely, but I liked iot because of that. I actually thought the tone was RIGHT — as katniss matures and grows beyond the Hunger Games and the districts and starts to see Panem in it’s truest sense, then there’s war, she’s given a role she doesn’t want etc etc shit IS messy. it…

yes, this. it’s exactly why I liked the books. The fourth book was messy and as any romantic does I wanted more katniss / peeta, but its very realism is why the series in my mind is a success. War doesn’t solve anything. PTSD is real, and shit like Panem fucks people up. It’s real.