First of all, EGR loves this lady. We all do, she's a national treasure. Second of all, don't you have a puppy to go kick or something? Maybe some rape statistics to dispute?

OMG EGR, the server was Miguela, not Nick! Tsk Tsk!

I wonder if Dutton would have been so open about it all if Stuart was younger. And I think Hsu's is very different than Duttons. Hsu seems pretty clear that she loves her child, and was just disillusioned by motherhood. Which I think is fair and something her child will be able to understand once they are actually old…

I'm so sorry for your loss. I agree with you on everything you said. I think it's important to note, as others have in this thread, that the first example, Dutton, is almost 60 and her son is 33. He's an adult who can handle it, IMO, and I bet it's a huge relief for Dutton to be able to speak out and help other women…

You just described my childhood. And I don't blame my mother or my father for it. Shit happens, and you do the best you can with what you got.

Dutton is almost 60-years-old, but it's cute that you think that every woman was aware that she had a choice back then. And her son is 33-years-old, not a child, so I think at this point he can handle the truth. She obviously loves him, and says as much in the original piece. But pretending that motherhood is all…

"You should have worked that out before you married." Yes, because people always know exactly what they want with everything before marriage and never, EVER change their minds.

I can understand this sentiment in regards to the Daily Mail example (if that's even a real one, seeing how often The Fail makes crap entirely up) but I think it's different if what the mother is talking about is motherhood itself rather than her kid. Hell, I hate the ins and outs of motherhood. But when I see my…

Yes, because no woman who didn't really want children was ever pressured into motherhood any way by society, amirite? Sometimes it's nigh impossible to fight against social convention and peer pressure. And judging from the first example given and the woman's age, I would say it was harder for her than it might be for…

Ohhhh, I thought you were saying non-consensual sex was NBD for a second. *Facepalm*

"I think Americans take consensual sex way too seriously." Wut?

"the ones who claim to be the most well traveled are the least well cultured about the places they supposedly traveled to. " Yup. Traveling is great, but if all you do is stay at resorts where everyone is just like you, then all you've really done is spent a ton of time in an airplane.

What can we do to help as readers?

But less profitable for those selling it. Which, in some industries, might not be such a terrible thing.

This sounds like hell on Earth.

Poot Poot made my day. For real.

Well, in that case a U.S. woman basically abandoned her adopted Russian kid on an airplane. By himself. With nothing but a note. I'm probably forgetting details here, and I totally agree that the Russians over-reacted, but it wasn't over some non-related political snafu. It was over an asshole American adopted parent.

Because they have little access to anything else, unlike Americans or Brits? Especially if they aren't multi-lingual. I have friends from Moscow and other parts of Russia, and they all have similar stories of insane propaganda.

If you really think that Poot Poot has a legitimate 87% approval rating then I have a bridge in Brooklyn I'd love to sell you. They fudge those numbers just like everything when it comes to propaganda.

Your Instagram sounds awesome. I would follow that in a heartbeat.