If you are interested in crime scene miniatures and have a few hours to spend down a rabbit hole, google "Nutshell Studies" and Frances Glessner Lee. Her work was groundbreaking and eerily beautiful.

I'd say there are still hordes of people that still don't realize it, though. Or don't even notice that they don't realize it, really.

I was touched when he refers to the women he has never gotten to know because they didn't fit his specifications. I know many women struggle with this every day. Our message, our worth, our contribution is hidden behind other people's external expectations. trying to prove yourself every day and overcome the exterior…

So beautiful. He had the same realization that probably 95% of the female population has to deal with. That moment when we realize we're just not good looking...in the way society thinks we SHOULD be. And we understand then why we're treated the way we are. And all the things we do to make ourselves stand out. The…

I saw this earlier today and i cried and cried. Now i know why I love "Tootsie" so damn much. I never thought DH was belittling women or their experience, I always thought he was on our side. "Tootsie" was, and always has been, a feminist movie. Thank you DH, for being such a lovely human.

This is incredibly touching and so genuine. He seems like a very thoughtful and introspective person. It's amazing how gender roles prevent most men from ever having such an epiphany and women like me from even considering that it's a necessary epiphany to have in order to make progress. We truly can't see our own…

This precisely expresses how I have felt my entire life. And guys don't have any idea how it feels to be part of a group that is not covered or protected by the Constitution.

Indeed. Wouldn't it be an amazing world to live in where a woman doing something amazing didn't have any story about it focus on her gender, because the gender itself wasn't considered remarkable or newsworthy. Or the sexual orientation of a professional athlete. Or the skin color of a President. (Or the gender of…

I'm continually surprised by the amount of pride people seem to have in their inability to feel any empathy for anyone else, ever. And their unwillingness to consider other people's feelings, ever.

A surface reading of the Bible should turn any good person into an atheist. Getting an actual degree in theology from a good seminary (as opposed to, say, a "Bible college" or other fundie brainwashing factory) requires more careful study than what you're probably doing, though. That's the difference between theology…

Yeah honestly the two year (or three with the +1 in OB) vs five year residency is another "pro" on the Family side of my dilemma. My peers are all convinced that I'm going to go into OBGYN, but I'm like seriously, I could be out of residency two years earlier, I could have more control over my own schedule, I won't…

Most statistics for home birth mortality/morbidity include stats for completely unassisted (unplanned) home births, premature births, and home births with unqualified, untrained attendants. Plenty of studies show that planned home births for low-risk mothers, overseen by well-trained, well-qualified (CNM in the US)…

In the UK lots of hospitals have midwifery run birthcentres alongside the obstetric units. In my experience it seems to run pretty well. Low risk women can use the pool, beanbags, birthstools etc (and have the lights dimmed, be encouraged to move around, have as many birth partners as they want and at the unit where I…

I'm a (hospital based) midwife and my husband is a NICU doctor. We are personally planning on having a home birth with a carefully vetted midwife and only if I don't have any complications during the pregnancy. Under these circumstances I think home birth is very safe (or I clearly wouldn't be doing it!). I think it's…

I'm not one to attribute unknown things to supernatural phenomena (like my TV suddenly turning on) but have a strong respect for the power of the subconscious. I've read that many "haunted" places actually have sounds that are below the human auditory register but are at the same decibal range as something like a…

Crap! I wish I had seen the submissions because I grew up in a house that scared the everlasting shit out of me for both its horror movie qualities and the very real scary things that happened there.