I feel like I should speak up for a (probably small) demographic. I care deeply about abortion rights, and have since I was about 10. BUT I don’t always click on each story for the simple reason that 1. I know it will piss me off and I have a 4yo in lockdown and can’t afford to lose any more patience than I already do…

On top of the day to day work clinics can’t hold supporter gathering events such as volunteer trainings or fundraisers. At our nonprofit clinic where I live we had to cancel a fundraiser that usually nets $15,000.

I’ve been wading my toes into “pro-life feminism” for awhile now, and I actually personally know one of the “pro-life feminists” mentioned above.

I completely agree with you about the weirdness (and baselessness) of wanting to present Depp as a blameless victim in this whole affair. He quite clearly has some dangerous violent and abusive tendencies, and a lot of Depp stans and MRA types completely ignore that.

Sounds like he was completely wasted, and ranting to a friend after being the victim of physical abuse. He definitely has substance abuse issues, which he needs to address.

Kate Middleton has given birth three times after miserable pregnancies, the writer has by her own admission never given birth, but still feels entitled to correct Middleton about her own experiences of her own pregnancies, and judge her about her choice of pain management. It's not a very good look

If that 6 year old knew how they got that elephant to perform he would not want to go the circus.  Protesting at the circus is the reason the circus is gone. 

I get a flu shot every damn year, because I’m an asthmatic. I’ve seriously done this for more than 30 years. And every time I get my flu shot and it comes up at work someone says, “You can get the flu from those, I hear.” No, you can’t. People are stupid. And I’d say they deserve the flu, but no one deserves the flu.…

Politically she’s the eternal victim; and it’s not hard to understand why she’ll always approach the arena in that manner.

Would it kill her to accept an ounce of blame for running a piss-poor campaign and condemning us all to 4-8 years of Trump? Fuck her and the corporate funded jet she flew in on. She’s was and is part of the problem and the best thing she can do to be part of the solution is to go get lost in the woods again.

He’s playing to a fickle audience, that being American voters who claim they have no bias towards gays, but grimace when they see “two guys kiss on the lips”.  

Fuck, thank you! This is so blatantly obvious. Even IF the existence of a hymen was a 100% surefire way to detect if someone has had sex - which we know it is not - there ARE several other ways in which a girl can be sexually assaulted. Jfc, I don’t know which is worse: the ignorance or the arrogance. 

I’ve done ivf. While I was going through that, I followed a bunch of ivf hashtags on instagram. There are a LOT of people who want a child more than anything in the world. The intensity of their desire, desperation, pain, hope, panic, grief, happiness was shocking sometimes. I've gone through many of those emotions…

Bringing a child to a fertility clinic is massively insensitive. 

When people learn you have chosen fertility treatment, with the protection of the anonymity of the internet there’s bound to be someone to claim IVF is “selfish” when “there are so many children out there who need good homes”, as if it’s as easy as swinging by the local pound.

It is a really tough, long, expensive and uncertain path. And there are a lot of conditions that a lot of people aren’t comfortable with. I work with quite a lot of women with poly-substance abuse, complex mental health issues, family and intimate partner violence etc, who have had 1, 2, 3 kids taken away by child…

I do think that people underestimate how hard adoption can be. I was in the library’s children’s section the other day, and in the section with books for parents, one of the featured ones sitting out was about how to minimize the cost of adoption.  If people are writing books like that, it’s a lot tougher than “just…

You can get most routine GYN care from a family practitioner or a general practitioner. As a bonus, they can do a regular yearly physical at the same time. 

On the one hand, it IS good to check in with people before you’re about to dump something on them. It feels like an ambush sometimes when someone just dumps a bunch of heavy emotional stuff when you aren’t in a position to handle it or respond. If someone just woke up or is running late, they’re not going to be in a…

The abuse of this term is simply an indicator of how selfish and narcissistic our society has become. A friend simply asking you to be a friend to them in a time of need now requires “consent agreements” and notifying everyone around you of what a burden you’re forced to carry, listening to a friend that needs a…