Samesies on the emergency c-section. My kid wasn’t facing forward or backward, but SIDEWAYS, and she wasn’t coming out the hatch on her own. My “child-bearing hips” may have given her legroom in utero (as did sticking her feet up into my ribs!) but they weren’t much help with delivery.

Yas! Me, too! Kind of humbling to realize that my “childbearing hips” (which I heard often in HS) could have killed both me and my kiddo. My hips are thick on the outside, and verry narrow on the inside, which is how I’m built everywhere (including the narrow woman inside that I shut up with cookies).

Was it hard to leave her kids every morning to write? Did she deal with a lot of guilt around it?

Yuuuup me too. It’s a super gross double whammy because my big ol’ butt is attached a face that still (at 27) gets read as underage. I’ve been having people creep on me with that phrase for like 15 years at this point. IT’S GETTING VERY, VERY OLD.

This is how we felt in Canada, too. Despondent and disillusioned after the election in 2011. Thankfully grass root groups all over the country popped up to engage, register, and encourage voters. I know it’s cheesy but those small, consistent, years-long efforts paid off. Engage whoever you can and encourage them to…

Two words.

He also appointed this woman as Minister of Justice!

Not to mention, if I were 12 and trapped in a bathroom with a stranger, I’d probably just go along with it too since I’d be scared of much worse. Does that mean I would be “technically not that unwilling?” This story is THE WORST. Let’s all repeat this stuff as much as possible, because WORST

It’s almost as if refusing to protect trans people didn’t stop straight men from going into womens’ restrooms to assault children there.

This is why I never comment on how a pregnant woman looks unless I am super close to her and know what she wants to hear. (Like my best friend who had a borderline-unhealthy obsession with how much weight she was gaining during her pregnancy and would freak out over meant-to-be-benign comments from other people about…

White, middle-aged American’s thought they were the middle-class and are now figuring out there is no such thing as a middle class anymore.

We can hope that more research will result in the means to combat this unfortunate trend.

I totally don’t get the whole ‘perfect, thick, green lawn thing”. I mean, yes, theoretically I know WHY it’s a thing and where it came from, but this isn’t post WWII suburbs anymore, knock it off people. My yard is very big, but pretty much the only green I have, and only during rainy season is weeds, because the rest…

Yes, I love my little parasites and I want them to be healthy and happy. If you think they don’t occasionally eat crappy cereal now that they are no longer little tapeworms surviving off what I eat, then you are quite mistaken. Yet no one cares now that they aren’t plugged into me for life support. That tells me that…

I almost wish someone had criticized my food choices during any of my three pregnancies. They would have learned more about hyperemesis gravidarum than they ever wanted to know.

When I was pregnant, I got both “You shouldn’t be eating that BLANK” condescension and “Oh pshaw, you’re ridiculous to be concerned about eating BLANK even though your doctor told you not to, what does he know.” You can’t win. It’s bullshit.

I’m with you so much. Can we all just agree that this whole genre of “men suck at domestic things” is just fucking awful. Like, I am a man. I also like to make sure the kitchen is reasonably clean, and years of living without a dishwasher means I’m 100% okay with washing dishes on my own.

Hating her pregnancy doesn’t mean that she’s not grateful that she’s able to conceive children or that she loves her children any less. It means that she’s publicly acknowledging a thing that millions of women experience and are shamed for in a way that perpetuates patriarchal stereotypes about the role of woman as…

God bless Kim K. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Pregnancy was the most miserable, bloated, depressive, back-painful, bladder-killing, sciatica-causing experience and I begged my doctor for a hysterectomy a few hours after delivery. GOD BLESS YOU, KIM. KEEP SPEAKING THE TRUTH.

Note: I originally shared this on a Jezebel thread about 4 years ago in an unrelated story.