I think the problem isn’t with the woman’s choice but with the situation that puts women in the position of scheduling a birth around their work at possible cost to their health and their child’s health.

My impression wasn’t that he couldn’t pass but rather that he was opposed to the way that boards were currently being administered—that is, with what frequency and who was being required to take them. That’s a subject of considerable angst among medical professionals regardless of whether they have shitty…

I bought a bunch from Soma that turned out to be just heavenly.

From the same people that like to dictate that physicians share inaccurate information about abortion? They love this shit.

When I asked for nuvaring as a teenager my provider was shocked and said teenage girls were never willing to use it because they were afraid of touching themselves. I'm hoping that that's a fucked up cultural issue that's gradually going away. Like, to be okay with being touched by other people and not yourself? Wtf?

It depends on the hospital. If they do, it certainly isn't advertised and is often done off-site. Many hospitals in the US are religious and will have nothing to do with it.

I know there are good people who spend a lot on their weddings, but... There's definitely a trend I've noticed among friends of people (either member of the couple) spending a lot on the wedding in part because they've been dreaming about the event and haven't been thinking long term about the relationship. Their…

I was thinking so because the article specifically mentions the priapism being caused by misshapen blood cells obstructing normal blood flow.

You can't leave out the fact that it was like this as a result of priapism (prolonged erections that result from the blood getting trapped in the penis) and was now impeding his ability to get an erection at all or walk around like a normal person.

The incredible obvious idiocy of carrying around a loaded weapon like that...

A titer is a measurement of antibody levels that determines if you have sufficient immunity to a disease.

Taking someone from first kiss all the way through just reminded me how godawful long it takes before that stuff becomes natural to a person. Most of us spread it out over a year or more in high school and never think about it.

I've seen people slip up and say "colored" when they were intending to say "people of color" before. This is especially risky if you've recently done any historical document reading and the term was being used ubiquitously with polite intentions.

I don't think that the point was that there was something naturally more intellectual about print media so much as that print and web media have to use different techniques to pull in readers and that web media expects less reader investment because it's often free content accessed via social media. So that tends to…

The entire GMO "debate" drives me insane. It just shows so much ignorance about the agricultural industry in this country. Even the most intelligent reasons ("because Monsanta, intellectual property, etc") are really much, much more complicated than those people realize. Like, you'd think that if not for Monsanto we…

He was actually really good, but I think mostly I was strangely turned on by how demeaning and shameful it felt.

I lived with a guy once that we ALL hated. He was childish, messy, and irresponsible. Everyone who lived in our sprawling college town home (so, like, 20+ people) was literally counting down the days until he moved out. We'd actually all greet each other like that sometimes when he wasn't around: "two weeks!"

Don't worry, they're still asking. I saw an ad in my undergrad daily a year ago seeking a Jewish student egg donor and offering like $14k.

I think it's a combination of a) invisible work that we often imagine is done for free by family or shame people for not doing for free and b) work that if paid a fairer wage would make care facilities even more expensive than they are. We really just need a better system for adult long term care, but I have no idea…

Do we really count nursing as low wage? Maybe compared to other jobs in healthcare.... Nursing Assistants DEFINITELY low wage, of course. Also super in demand. It would be hard not to get a job with that certification, but I think lots of people leave the field after just a few years—hard on your body, hard on your…