And....that makes your response right? You were completely unprofessional and disrespectul to your reader. You really, really could have made a better choice in the way you responded. Take the high road? I’ll think twice about reading any of your stories now.

Stay classy Gia!! It’s a clickbait headline. Jezebel logic 101: It’s OK to kill innocent babies! It’s horrific to execute cold blooded murderers!

From the persons followup response:

You guys are sick. The complete lack of morality in these comments floors me.

I have nothing of value of interest to add to the collective dialogue.

Talk to me when it gets passed. Which it will not. Also, the rhetoric isn’t simply fear of banning assault rifles, it’s some unfounded talking point of banning and/or confiscating guns. My insight/ outrage level is fine.

I think all weapons created specifically to kill quickly, with a fast discharge of multiple bullets, without reloading often, shouldn’t be available to the general public. That’s it.

Do you have access to the security cameras in my home? Because that’s what I do. But I work in a cut-throat academic environment in Texas where a lot of people say they don’t even watch tv (side note: on my match.com profile I put ‘I don’t trust people who don’t watch tv’ - and my husband is a rabid housewives fan…

Because sometimes Jezebel commentors like to get a little classist. They like to talk about helping ‘the poor’ or people that live in rural areas....you know as long as they don’t actually have to interact with them and understand how their life and upbringing might have been different. (not all Jezzies, I know, but…

Replace....

I tried to write a post earlier and I just couldn’t quite temper my anger at someone who has clearly suffered a devastating loss and is grieving. I don’t want to be that kind of a bitch.

As a mother to an adopted daughter, I couldn’t agree more with your position. People often say “you’re so great for doing this” (meaning adopting her from the situation she was born into, which I won’t detail)...but my response is, “she blessed us; we’re the lucky ones.”

Thank you!

Ditto. I’ve seen occasional cringey posts about “changing lives” from prospective adoptive parents, but I think anyone who has those thoughts (and isn’t a narcissist) snaps out of it quick and is just grateful to have the opportunity to parent their child. And most people thankfully never think that way at all.

Thanks for posting. Wishing you all the best. :)

I’m 38, and we’ve been trying for two years. Zilch. We’ve both been tested, and there’s no reason why I’m not pregnant. Given my age, it’s probably too late.

You are the first adopted kid I’ve heard say that. I’m truly sorry your experience was so bad. My own daughter won’t hear of having her own kids; she will adopt or bust, she says. Maybe she’ll change her mind, but I think a lot of it is how adoption is treated by the adoptive parents, what the relationship between…

So here is one of those judgy people. I adopted my children (a very challenging process by the way with many requirements), but I would never judge someone who has the money to invest in fertility treatment. Are we also going to judge their homes or their cars as good investments? We aren’t talking about octomom here.