I hope whoever agrees to write this paper for him intentionally writes a paper chock full of incorrect facts. Like how Benjamin Franklin invented feminism and women were given the right to vote in 1971 and how Roe v. Wade gave women the right to row a boat.

I can imagine this being some sappy drama romance film starring Rachel McAdams and that Ensel Inglesnort where a young man meets a bright, independent, feisty lesbian who teaches him the real meaning of feminism love before he flunks out of school and loses a job at his father’s law office. I can see the trailer now...

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So why do I get the feeling that Mom might actually be hoping her loveable but bro-diotic son meets some nice, aware young woman who will set him straight and possibly make a lovely daughter-in-law? ("Quite the sophisticated young man who enjoys elegant restaurants" and all that.)

Why, Why, WHY is a victim-blaming and a trolling burner name comment the first comment in the sight, approved and in the black, when the rest of us who make thoughtful comments and have been on Jezebel for YEARS languish in the greys? WHY?

Because it was an awful thing to say. It implies women fake rape for attention on the regular. It supports sexist beliefs. It doesn’t matter if she knows the judge or has read the records. She isn’t just implying Kesha, who has, by the way, basically given up her career, is lying and just wants attention. (By being…

Seems like a good place to put this:

They have already done it.

No loophole?

We are just beginning to understand exactly how intimately (no pun intended) the symbiotic relationship we have with the bacteria that live all over us, and constitute multiple pounds of our body weight, impacts our health, and all signs point to ‘very much so’. Colonizing C-section babies with the bacteria they would…

It’s not a trend! It’s a goddamn scientific study.

Interestingly enough, I just went to the American Museum of Natural History’s exhibit on bacteria, and they had a section explaining that apparently in the day or so before pregnancy, a huge amount of gut bacteria actually move down and into the birth canal, in a way that doesn’t happen any other time. Kind of…

Why? The birth canal has beneficial bacteria that helps build a baby’s immune system and microbiome. It is known that babies born vaginally have a larger microbiome than babies born via c-section. We know that good bacteria and varied microbiome are associated with positive health outcomes, including strong immune…

Thank you. People around here sound like a bunch of pubescent boys... Vaginas are not gross, people - especially for humans fresh out of the womb.

Thank you! I listened to an NPR program about this. Children born through c-section have a higher incidence of various diseases, and that absolutely has to do with not receiving the microbiome of the mother while passing through the birth canal. I am puzzled by all the commenters who think this is ‘so gross’. If you…

Been reading about this. I’m in a microbiology lab, doing metagenomics, and we talked about this paper a bit (although the lab is more focused on environmental microbiology). Microbes are important! Not sure that this is necessarily a good thing to do, but it would be interesting to see a longer-term study looking at…

Jez really needs a science editor.

Actually Jezebel you are kind of full of shit. This is a technique that comes out of more than a “boutique study.” NYU researchers have published and have been highlighted in more than one news source for the results of swabbing C-section born children in order to create the microbiome, e.g. gut flora, who diversity…

Jane, mid-thirties, sighs in her stained lab coat and I-stand-with-Wendy hot pink Nikes. It’s obvious she didn’t have time to do her hair today and her solvent headache has led to excessive facial flushing. It’s eleven hours into her workday and she doesn’t see an end in sight.

Consent. It’s as simple as a cup of tea.