It probably is meant in jest. It's still a clearly horrible thing to say to someone and not at all "another issue."

Multiple births run in my family. People say things to their mothers like, "Oh, my God! That's like having a litter!" So, maybe it strikes you as a joke, but not everyone else. Just something to consider.

For whatever it's worth now, CCD was a crap experiment in teaching complicated religious doctrine with almost completely uneducated volunteer moms and dads. The "official" Catholic Church has never taught that unbaptized babies don't go to heaven. Nonetheless, it was something that was fervently believed by many of…

This really bad southern accent is not "sassy." It's about on par with a really bad New Jersey accent done by a Southerner.

My God, the comments on this article are just full of classist bullshit.

It belongs to the National Portrait Gallery. According to their website the artist is Giovanni Boldini and it's oil on canvas. (Not an artist, so not sure if that's the kind of information you were looking for.)

I need to calm down? You've taken such offense to an fairly innocuous query on my part that I'm left wondering if you are related to the author or something. I'm simply wondering what exactly the author sees Europe doing that she would like to see being done in the United States.

Europe is a big place, though. The original article makes it sound as though there is some kind of widespread pan-European agreement on when babies can and can't be brought to bars and brunch whether you live in Lisbon or Lisdoonvarna.

It confused me. It comes right after the idea that there should be appropriate hours and guidelines for eating out with children. Last I checked Europe was a big place full of a wide variety of cultures with their own expectations about behavior. It's not the same everywhere just because it's Europe.

Europe gets it.

Actually, no. The Church teaches that marital sex is both unitive and procreative. If their teaching was that sex was primarily for procreation they would not marry those who cannot have children — yet they do.

So...you believe the majority opinion is always right? Okay.

Good points and pretty much what I was trying to say. But, based on the replies I have received, I am apparently guilty of holding the wrong opinion on this topic. Thus spake the commentariat.

If you got that message out of anything I posted on this story then you suffer from a reading comprehension disorder that probably needs to be addressed immediately.

Not my point at all.

Not my point, but here's hoping you enjoyed yourself putting that together.

That's not what I was saying at all. I was simply suggesting that a body acceptance photo spread that was inclusive would have been even better.

Why are you calling me honey? I thought I'd express the idea that something could be about both men and women since the idea behind the project was to celebrate the beauty of the human body even when it's less than perfect. Thirty pictures of women's butts as a response to a Vogue spread about women's butts doesn't…

Yeah, I understand that they are responding to the Vogue thing. But the copy accompanying the article professes a love for all backsides and yet women are the only ones photographed. It just seems to me like they missed a golden opportunity to broaden the conversation. But thanks for replying to my comment.

"...big butts exist in the realm of man..."