She’ll be right at home at the Atlantic, bastion of patronizing white liberalism that it is.

I got a Bjorn. Had my first in a hot climate, and it was more comfortable. And! When I finally tripped while wearing it, the padding meant he didn’t feel anything.

I think the desired outcome is less mourning the accidental pregnancy and more encouraging people to communicate how they feel when they feel it. When my husband and I stopped trying to prevent a pregnancy, I was kind of on the fence about I wanted it now. But I figured I had time. All my friends in the same career…

You’ve just described my relationship with my Texan husband.

The conversation around drinking is really hard. I drink, and enjoy it. But I also coordinate a lot of social events at work, and want to be inclusive to people who do not drink. A survey of women in my field a while back showed that many feel pressure to drink more than they’re comfortable when out with co-workers…

My in-laws think my husband and I are the fucking grinches who stole their first grandchildren for not wanting them taking naked photos of them. Even hard copies, I don’t want to risk losing control of those types of pics.

But that’s the goal, right? drain the state coffers through pointless court battles, then tell the people there’s no money for social programs. Americans will never vote to end medicare or social security. This is how they’re putting those programs in the crosshairs.

Why anyone would seek out going to a hospital as a primary option is beyond me.

This. Having a kid is a major experience in learning to love your powerlessness in the world. For my first pregnancy (multiples), we talked to the doctor about minimizing the risk of a C-section, and we were successful. The second time, breech. We tried turning the baby, failed, and scheduled a C-section right on the…

However, some professors are great academics but perhaps have a bit of Asperger’s or autism. They shouldn’t be raked over the coals for responding to a student without the kind of warmth the student would like.

Another commenter replied to me with what I think is what happened: this guy had no friends left after being a massive fuck-up for so long, so what might have been survivable otherwise was his last straw.

It’s just unfortunate he could do so much damage to the student body before leaving.

Yep. Fuuuuuck this dude. Bad dude.

Good. Everything that has occurred under his watch has been a debacle. Racism, getting grad student insurance taken away *. Complete incompetence.

I agree. People act like there’s one path, or like all STEM workers have one personality. But the reality is that there are as many ‘origin stories’ as there are workers, and we need to embrace that. I know artists who nerd out about code, which they learned to deliver their product. I know people who knew since they…

For sure. It’s been a few years since I lived in Austin, but it’s generally a pretty safe city. So you get these incidents like we see all over the country in other safe cities - extremely excessive force being used in response to non-violent offenses.

I thought that might be the case, but the arrest footage from last week is really violent and disturbing. I’d find it hard to conflate these two things.

There was another recent jaywalking arrest and beating — why are we rehashing this one?

2-Kids cannot articulate very well the issue of food allergies/ food intolerance, because unless they go into shock at first bite, things like getting real sleepy, drowsy, no energy, or mild stomach discomfort, are commonly dismissed or ignored by parents, though kids are very much aware of when they don’t feel their…

I’ve seen some of the most inspiring progressive activism I’ve ever seen in Texas. Women bussing in from El Paso (ten hours by car, a 24+ by bus) to stand in the Capitol agitating for women’s rights. I flew out of state the night of the Wendy Davis filibuster for a meeting. The plane was packed with out-of-state…

It’s continually amazing to me that writers who hold themselves out as progressive can be so blind to the oppressions that women, minorities and the poor face in Texas. When I lived in Austin years ago, there was no meaningful public transit. To get my ID, I had to either bike over an hour, take the ‘public transit’…