I mean, by these men’s definition, isn’t caesarean section “ripping the baby out of the womb”?

Its pro birth not pro life. I live in Ohio and have a daughter with Downs. I wouldn’t give my life up for anything but fuck all if the Pro Birth people are the ones that make raising her the hardest. Pre existing condition clauses, diverting money from schools that she attends to private schools that dont have to…

I worked with Ralph Northam a number of years ago. He is an exceedingly compassionate physician who would never support infanticide but as usual, the right has cherry picked the most damning parts of his interview and presented them without context.

Let me alleviate your fears and say that no one their right mind goes through two trimesters of pregnancy and then is like “actually I don’t want a kid.” Every single abortion that happens in the third trimester is out of medical necessity. Every single one. And no state in the US allows for late term abortions if…

First, let me state that I am a man, and a gay man at that. So really under no probable situation will I or a sexual partner become pregnant.

Nobody, absolutely no doctor ever would authorize an abortion when a woman is full term unless there were something seriously wrong. How is that so difficult to understand? It is dangerous to deliver a baby that size especially through an induced labor of a deceased fetus, and no doctor would ever risk that.

Fentalyl can be absorbed through the skin. If they weren’t wearing gloves and they touched it while responsing, they could have been affected. 

I guy I had been casually seeing once texted me a picture of another man’s junk and asked “Do you want some of me?” I texted back asking why he was sending me pictures of another man’s more impressive dick. I didn’t hear anything back from him after that. 

I burned it from my phone but I once received an exercise in amateur literotica from my brother that was meant for his girlfriend. I texted back "Please, sir, there's been a mistake " and then died inside. 

This dude worked at the restaurant next to mine, we became friends would flirt/smoke weed after work occasionally. I move away, then move back about a year later. We realize we’re both living in the same neighborhood again so exchange numbers and flirt over text a bit.

I can’t believe he didn’t even have the decency to ask if you had gone splat, let alone not text-cuddling.

I was once sexting a guy when I was about 20 when he suddenly replied “...and *insert name* has gone splat. Goodnight” and stopped texting. Yes, he referred to himself in the third person. Yes, that was the last time I engaged in sexting with him.

What gets me about entitlement is the perfect shield it forms against reality. Even when you told this guy, bluntly, that the whole rom-com performance was gross and scary and UNLIKABLE, he just tuned it out. Every single one of women’s objections can be slotted into guys like this responses, like a Choose Your Own…

When I was on OkCupid (which I call “OkStupid”), I used to get messages like that:

I didn’t want him to know where I lived so I stopped a block away and said, “Look, romcoms lied to you. I don’t like you. I think you’re a rude jerk who won’t leave me alone. I’m doing my best not to give you the impression I like you because I don’t. Please go home now.” The whole time he never took me seriously and…

“But the embarrassment that comes with being a woman can feel wholly inevitable: Being too forward; talking too much; not talking enough; seeming too shy; texting too soon; coming across like a bitch or coming across as too easy. For every overstep there’s the possibility I’ll lose ground just standing still. The fear…

I’m surprised he didn’t:

When I was single, I remember talking politics with some guy I’d met at a party. He tried to call me out for something, and I sternly nailed him back with facts and data. I sincerely thought he was a jerk because of the way he smugly raised his objections to my argument and rolled his eyes. I walked away.

I often think about that one girl who when guys would text her “You are beautiful” she stopped demurring and would respond with “Yes, I know.” And the responses she would get would be amazing, in fact, down right hostile. Patriarchy doesn’t want women to be confident in any sort of arena—men make the rules, and the…

It's such a tragedy. Something many people forget is that cults operate like an abusive partner - it all seems fine at the start, but slowly they gain control over your finances, isolate you from anyone else, and begin playing mind games with you, etc. And like survivors of domestic abuse, the victims are blamed, and…