YEEEESSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!! Can it please discuss the news of a potential Lifetime movie about the Menendez Brothers that would include Courtney Love in the cast?!?

Ehh, Bill Clinton seems like he is brimming with charisma, I bet I would ask the same of him.

Me too! There’s lots of audio of the chant / singing in ATL, but damn was I proud of Detroit when a rousing chorus of Ludicrous got changed to “Move Trump, get out the way, get out the way....” and folks were dancing along.

Where did you move from? I’ve been in MI about 2.5 years, I feel you. The car culture and winter makes it harder to get to know people than in a more walkable city. And so few people leave here that, for all their Midwestern affability, they can be somewhat flummoxed by us expats.

Yep, moved here two years ago, have been SHOCKED by how red and segregated the state is, and I grew up in the Deep South. But I’d rather be fighting for justice and equality (and the Fair Michigan act, and Gretchen Whitmer 2018) here than anywhere else!

I was at this protest, it was a truly incredible scene to see every floor of the terminal taken over. Michigan has such a large Arabic and Muslim population, which was well-represented there. So many little kids chanting with their fists in the air, so many Muslim women wearing American-flag print hijabs.

Will this be before or after he is brought up on charges of the second-degree murder of America’s hopes and ability to sleep through the night?

There were so many moments when the audience that I saw Hidden Figures with burst into spontaneous applause, but my favorite was the clapping that broke out as Spencer escorted the human computers to the IBM. So so good!

Fuck is that a good call. I’m really trying to work on how I’m consuming news. It’s a dangerous privilege to check out of news completely, so I’ve been trying to recognize right before I read an article if I need to read it or if it is confirming something I already know and will just enrage me. But a vertical or tag…

Congrats! Yes, it can make it not really seem real until the second trimester. It took me a while too since the first one miscarried, I didn’t want to get too attached. Now it’s VERY real, I get elbowed and kicked by my not-so-little gummy bear all day and night! The ultrasound at week 20 was way better, we could see…

Girl preach it. As I say, I’ve always been pro-choice, but being pregnant (34 weeks!) has made me even more adamantly so. Hell, they really ought to stay in longer than 40 weeks, but with us being bipedal their heads can’t get any bigger and still come out of our birth canals. Until very recently Fetus Is A Construct…

Excellent example. As in it’s not enough for neurons or a brain to exist, it must also be provably functioning. And if you can’t prove that it is or isn’t functioning, can you prove there is life?

Heaven help any barrista or cop who comes between me and my coffee, no matter how pregnant I am. The pregnancy insomnia is real, and the studies about caffeine and miscarriages and caffeine and low birthweight are antiquated and inconclusive.

Ha. They think they’re shaming us whores, they’re really just making folks hungry for barbecued shrimp! That or making us think:“it’s the thing from predator! Kill it before it kills all of us!”

I love the nerds of Jezebel, thank you for weighing in with this expertise! Yes, I had a miscarriage around 7 or 8 weeks, the cluster of cells was growing but never developed a heartbeat. It’s why doctors often won’t even see you until week 8 or later. Because miscarriages are so so so so common. (And yet there is…

Thanks. Healthy pregnancies don’t miscarry, so I found comfort in that. It was my body’s way of rejecting a pregnancy that likely wasn’t viable anyway. Weirdly I got all the bleeding with the pregnancy that is going great. They couldn’t explain mine either! Best of luck to y’all, I know it can be scary and unreal in…

That’s really interesting. As I say, it’s something I have been pondering since reading the CoS challenge, I think it’s interesting to contemplate the different definitions of person-hood, especially as medical science advances.

With both my pregnancies I found out around week 5, and only because I had wonky periods and was trying to get knocked up. I went through a 50 pack of pregnancy tests in 2015 / 2016. But they STILL don’t have you come in until week 8 because there’s often not a heartbeat earlier than that, and so many women miscarry,…

Being pregnant twice in one year I have had a lot of time to contemplate this. If men were the sole sex that could gestate and birth new life there would be statues of pregnant men and men in labor in every town. Hell, on every street corner!

Congrats! Yes, in my early ultrasounds* some of the techs acted like I should be all excited, I honestly couldn’t tell the fetus from my ovaries. It all looked like sonar of the Titanic wreckage to me.