Same! I was one of those “Well, only in rape or incest or life of the mother...” assholes when I was young. It was once I had my daughter that I re-evaluated my stance. I would never want her to think she is obligated to have a child if she doesn’t want to. Some people treat it as if it’s some sort of punishment for…

Amen. As a non-uterus haver, I’ve been pro-choice, but watching my wife go through pregnancy with twins and then with another, there is no way to justify forcing someone to go through that process against their will.

Progress is unfortunately painfully slow. It is good to see that things are starting to turn around even if its small scale

So you’re saying you made a well thought out, reasonable decision about your health and your body; the people responsible for it did not judge or subject you to their personal bias; and your supportive partner was there for you and cared for you before, during and after.

Everyone knows pretty ladies love compliments. It’s sexless terrorist bitches who don’t.

They’re probably just overly emotional about it bc hormones. I mean, it’s a compliment!

Nope. I had an ex stalking me, after he had physically assaulted me, and was arrested and I had a restraining order against him. Every time I reported something else he did (leaving notes by my car, sending messages online, etc) they would put it in the file and basically shrug at me.

Hey, do you suppose if either Mandy Moore or Gwyneth Paltrow is physically assaulted or murdered by these stalkers, we’ll have definite evidence that the stalkers were, in fact, stalking them? I bet millions of women file fake stalking claims all the fucking time, honestly. It’s right up there with false rape…

Nevermind being stalked when you’re not famous... the cops are even less likely to take you seriously.

I feel for both Mandy Moore and Gwyneth Paltrow right now. That is just fucking awful.

So the precedent for the rest of us who get stalked and don’t have indefatiguable legal and financial resources is... oh right, that the American legal system couldn’t give a fuck. Why don’t they just stamp “inferior rights” on females’ birth certificates or something?

“...without the potential of an NFL career to suppress his behavior, Holtzclaw seemingly became a completely different person.”

That was actually a decent apology from the editor....

Holtzclaw is continually described as a man who actively worked to stay out of trouble—as if it’s a shock when previously law-abiding men decide to rape women.

Great gif. I’ll respond with this, because she says it way better than I ever could: Also, the researchers did not study males, human or otherwise, which seems dubious! But I’m no scientist. The Telegraph:

The problem with the study is that it only asks why older women remain alive while completely ignoring why men, infertile people, or gay people remain alive when they serve no reproductive purposes either. It’s as if women’s sole purpose is to have a baby and then they become useless. Males of many species fuck and…

You found one! Congrats!!

I was just thinking that we CFBC ladies should band together, march on Liverpool, and offer ourselves up as a tribute to evolution on the university steps.

I’m waiting for one of those douchey STEM bros(almost certainly a freshman undergrad) to attempt to manslplain this.

Why am I even alive today as someone who has chosen not to have kids?