I keep picturing a wild Gwyneth Paltrow bachelorette party as one where everyone eats carbs and gluten.

My my next door neighbor and longtime best friend of over 20 years used to be the department manager of electronics in the Janesville Walmart. Longtime fuck face and Janesville resident Paul Ryan happened to drop in there I believe this was 5 or 6 years ago.

I live in paul ryan’s hometown, and let me fucking tell you, he is every bit the troll, gremlin, goblin, creep, fuckface you imagine him to be.

Not gonna lie. My first though was “well what if they’d just gilded them? Or made them look like little gold chandeliers?”

Ooh look, I made the 2nd-wave feminist angry. This silly novel of a reply has essentially rendered any rebuttal I would have needed to make completely irrelevant. #byefelicia

Based on their posts, it’s because NotTheFern thinks women with fertility issues = women who are getting (trans: paying for) expensive IVF treatments.

surely she can’t be using this newfangled literary technique called “humour” i’ve heard so much about

Women who have struggled with infertility are saying ‘this is incredibly painful for me, please don’t do it’ and the response is ‘sensative snowflakes should just adopt’. Why is it so hard to not out of your way to make people feel like shit?

I still don’t get it. Lying to your friends is funny?

My dad is a retired high school special ed teacher in Arizona. His compensation was higher than average in Arizona, but we rank 49th in high school teacher pay when adjusted for cost of living. He’s ready to join the picket line when teachers walk out.

And Kentucky teachers are protesting at the State Capital today! My mom, a retired teacher, is among them.

I can understand why people don’t get the “cruel” thing right away, but take a second to think about it. The person is saying “I’m capable of getting pregnant and did!” then later adding “Haha just kidding, I’m capable of getting pregnant but the thought of actually doing so is ridiculous, to the point that I make…

RTW states are such bullshit. I grew up in Florida, and while it’s RTW, the teachers still had a “Union”, but it didn’t have any teeth. Case and point: during my junior year the union negotiated successfully for the teachers to receive a raise the following year. When I returned to school that year I learned from one…

Thank you to you and all the other teachers. Our future depends on you, yet you get little pay and little respect for so much work. Teachers should not be paid a little as they are and should not be having to spends hundreds, if not thousands, out of their own pockets to provide supplies to their classrooms.

GOOD. I teach in a right-to-work state where the largest teachers’ organization proudly bills itself as “not a union!”, so most of us have given up on having any type of collective power. Oklahoma is also RTW. I don’t know the strength of their NEA and/or AFT affiliates, but they’re giving me hope that power is indeed…

I don’t get the joke. What’s funny about fake pregnancy announcements? Will you explain it to me?

I announced my real pregnancy on 4/1 to a few close friends who I knew would appreciate it. It was fun for us, because I knew my audience. Real pregnancy announcements are also very different- I doubt anyone got mad at you for that.

We’ve been trying for a year and I can’t even look at other people’s babies right now, so I personally find this joke really bloody insensitive, but I also understand that I’m in a particularly sensitive situation that might doesn’t necessarily translate to how other’s might relate to the “joke”.

I legitimately lost a 15 year friendship for this exact reason several years ago. My sister spent years and tons of money trying to get pregnant. I shared a very well-worded opinion article from a similarly suffering couple to help illustrate my support that these types of jokes aren’t funny. Friend’s mom liked the…

Right, but when it’s a sensitive issue joke, ask yourself, “who is the butt of this joke?”.