I think you're really, really missing the point here.

I used to hear stuff like that at the "women's" or work life balance events when I was at a large law firm. Hey life's not so bad- you just go home for dinner then come back at 9pm for another few hours! You can go to your kid's soccer game— once in a while. Made me wanted to jump out a window, and of course I…

No. Hating your work and loving your work aren't the only two options. Enjoying your job does not require enjoying every moment and every task, and being able and willing to give up all of your free time and some of your sleep to do more work. No one is required to define themselves by their job.

I made this point elsewhere to some extent. We raise men to feel this way, and then we act surprised that this is how they feel? Seems uncool to me.

A classic case of correlation =/= causation. So:

You know what this reminds me of?

I may write a post about this sometime for Groupthink, but I'd need the time first to really reflect...as a half-thought out post wouldn't cut it and could be triggering for some people.

Standard comment about assholes who don't eat like I think they should, followed by nutritional expertise that I overheard somewhere. Accusation that people who either do or don't eat gluten are morons. Dismissal of all medical problems of any kind in either direction.

Big Pharma is not a retail business with a physical presences in communities across the country. Drug reps do travel around but they are not qualified to give shots. While Big Pharma might do well for tax and reputation reasons to donate vaccines, providing the infrastructure to administer them is entirely outside…

The article is talking about non-medical exemptions. Your daughter would, I assume, have a medical exemption to vaccines that have the same ingredient as whatever caused your daughter's reaction. I assume 1) you'd do as much as you could to figure out what it was that caused your daughter's adverse reaction and 2)…

I don't really blame her though. Her parenting is being attacked. I don't agree with her views, but maybe if people were more understanding as opposed to saying LOLOLSSSSS UR A DUMBASS LOOK AT MY LOGICAL ANALOGIESSSSSSS, she might come around. Then we could say we were able to educate someone today!

I work in Big Pharma. I sincerely wish that my boss's boss's boss's boss was as smart as conspiracy theorists think he is.

I think the most important point made in this article is not about those who choose not to vaccinate (which there have always been, and will always be - my husband almost died of whooping cough as a child because of his hardcore fundamentalist anti-Western medicine mom, and I also know a lot of hippies who did not…

No, because it's a B.S. conversation. You become unhealthy if you eat too much of anything. The key is to practice moderation and be active, no matter where you live and what your body type.

tl;dr - If you have a family history of breast cancer, seek BRCA testing. If you have a family history of breast cancer and no BRCA+ carriers, you won't test positive for BRCA either.

I think that it is important to note that the bilateral mastectomy study involved women who were diagnosed with stage I or II breast cancer, not women who were having prophylactic mastectomies.

I agree, and I think in some cases this might be a case of recall bias. When your child is a little older and transgender, you can look back and say "We should have known even then!" when the same behavior would be perceived as just a phase if the child hadn't turned out transgender.

My question is to all who know more about this subject than I do (i.e.: most people):

Yaaaay!

The only thing that threw me about this article is...identifying your gender at age 2? That very notion disturbs me, because generally children don't have a gender identity at all at such a young age. How did she identify it? By liking barbies? It worries me that people would see one gender enjoying…

That article isn't the best summary of the work on false memory. Part of it is "long lost" memories, but the research has also focused on the ways in which children who are questioned repeatedly by adults will eventually begin to make things up that they later believe are true. Some of the most famous experiments…