I think it is hard to blame companies for not wanting to send their female employees to Georgia. What if, god forbid, one of their pregnant employees miscarries, and these dolts refuse to do an abortion because the fetus “might still be viable”? Or their employee gets charged with murder for miscarrying? Gets raped…

There are way more Pornstache’s out there than Joe’s, for sure. 

I’ve taught in several women’s prisons and that is 100% my experience. Even the official training you get as a volunteer strongly discourages basic human kindness and empathy towards incarcerated folks. It's a system that is designed to be abusive and inhumane. 

Think that the average prison guard could not qualify to be a cop and that is what you are dealing with at best.

Check out “American Prison” by Shane Bauer. He’s a reporter for Mother Jones who went undercover as an entry-level prison guard in Louisiana a few years ago. It’s an incredible book, based from the longform piece he wrote about his experience, which became the most-read piece in the history of Mother Jones. The book…

Correctional officers at female prisons are more problem prone than male. I briefly worked with a guy that was a corrections officer before he got some sense. Out of the academy he was assigned to a female prison. On the first day one of the others explained it to him, “The only officers that want to be at a female…

I don’t get why they’d hire her if they wanted only bland Oprah from an alternate reality. I assume they likely only wanted her name, but wanted “her to speak when spoken to” and let the sacred dusty ones that currently run the show continue it their way. But let’s be real, 60 minutes. If you were doing all that…

I agree. Without question my children limit me on what choices I can make, and I don’t regret that at all, but I do question who I am really working for. I love huge parts of my career, but when I deal with administration and male colleagues, it almost always ends up with me shouldering more work with less reward. I’m…

Same place we are now. Doing all the shit shifts, shit work and shit travel because “he doesn’t have any kids so he can do it...”

I neither have nor want children and even I see how US society simultaneously fetishizes families and despises parents. It’s colossally fucked up.

I don’t see how these shape the choices of single, working mothers, other than a minor reference in Miller’s piece. What I do know is that I was the breadwinner in my marriage AND I took care of all the home and child needs, exclusively. Though he made much less, we needed his income (or I thought I did - turns out I…

These people that call Meghan and Harry “minor royals” and claim Meghan is an attention seeking social climber are the same ones that are mad that H&M want a wee bit of time and privacy. I call bullshit. They can’t have it both ways.

Imaginative play toys are better for cognitive development especially for young children (these days most 10 year olds wouldn’t be caught dead with Barbies). Things with narratives are also good but the power of being encouraged to pretend is pretty important for developing creativity. Blocks are also good for this.

Jesus. This is such a good illustration of how different people’s experiences are and you really don’t always know what it’s like for them. I had no idea that everyone else was able to nurse a full meal in less time and hoopla than it would take to make a bottle. I was doing switch nursing, 10, burp, 10, burp, 5 burp,…

EXACTLY. With my son we had feedings drag out with tears and frustrations right up to the time of the next feeding.... no time was saved for us. Your milage may vary...

I have done both and formula feeding was infinitely easier. If you are one of the lucky ones with just a fountain of milk flowing from your breasts while your baby laps it up like a little lamb, sure. Breast feeding is easier. But struggling to latch, falling asleep, starting the latching war over, repeat until…

Not so fast. Breastfeeding can be excruciatingly time-consuming during the first few weeks, when your milk is still coming in. Doubly-so for a first-time mom who is still figuring out how to get a screaming kid to latch on.

...if breastfeeding is working and going as planned. If not, it can be infinitely more painful, time-consuming, and stressful than making a bottle.

And on top of that MANY women have major problems with latching and breastfeeding, or they don’t produce enough milk. The “breast is best” rhetoric is really dangerous because it’s gone the way of “only breast milk” rather then “when possible”. I know lots of women who are shamed for having to feed their children…

So glad I’m not a parent. I don’t think I’d have the patience for all this handwringing over formula. The idea that supplementing a kid’s diet with formula every now and then is cause for great upset is bafflingly ridiculous. Unless the baby is allergic to soy or someone other ingredient or if you live in an area…