Theyre all gonna laugh at you!

Thanks. My guess is that it is a loss people can’t conceptualize and also the thought of babies or children dying is scary, so people put up walls to pretend like these things aren’t real. We are accustomed to the concept of death after someone is “old” (even if we try to fight it), but not the very young.

I sympathise. I wish that hasn’t happened to you. Back when it happened to me, as a result of spousal violence, there was just no talking about it at all, it was all: shut up and get on with it. Not something I'd wish on anyone else.

social convention seems to be to expect parents to grieve quietly and alone. That’s part of the reason we told basically no one about my first two miscarriages

When it relates to pregnancy or neonatal loss the general social convention seems to be to expect parents to grieve quietly and alone. That’s part of the reason we told basically no one about my first two miscarriages. After my third loss, which was life threatening for me, I told a few people in dips and drabs. One…

chide her for not grieving properly.

A lot of hospitals offer photography in situations like this, so its not necessarily a glamourous photoshoot. I’ve known non-famous people who post these on their social media accounts to essentially say, “they existed in this world. they will be remembered.” It wasn’t thirsty or fake for them to do it, and I think…

Tiegen had been posting regularly about their journey with this pregnancy from the beginning. I can imagine that, having had the pregnancy end in this way, she would want to get out in front of the story and post it herself.

I’m not one of the Chrissy superfans, but I think it’s super brave and loving of her to post openly about this when it’s still such a stigmatized subject. October is pregnancy & infant loss awareness month, and many of the replies to Chrissy on Twitter do a great job of illustrating why we need to be having these…

Downplayed, but vital: Cartman performs a selfless act, which is immediately undone by Garrison/Trump.

Yup. We call it Schlaflyization. If you need to be out at a podium every night while your husband cares for the kids and cooks and cleans, Jesus will understand because you were at that podium putting other women in their place. 

As did Tammy Duckworth!

Line of the night:

If the divine role of women is to remain strapped to a birthing gurney for the duration of their lives, how is it that Barrett is up for one of the most powerful and high-profile jobs in the world? Is it because the Barretts already have seven children, so her usefulness as a breeding vessel has been fulfilled? Is…

Mark Cuban just put a lot of positive karma into the universe. Well done sir.

[Joe Biden holds out right fist, knuckles read “M A L A”. He holds out left, which reads “R K Y ツ”]

I know right? The last time, I just wanted to know for how many minutes I should steam this cod.

I regularly do that while cooking, but NOT while baking. Cooking is art; baking is science. I’m an artist. :D

Agreed. I actually love the idea of a political cookie bake-off, minus the backwards gender-specific stuff. But it should be the politicians themselves competing: presidential candidate vs. presidential candidate or vice presidential candidate vs. vice presidential candidate.

Smug bitchiness, huh?