It's different because abortion is about a woman having a choice over her own body. Just like a man doesn't abdicate having responsibility for having a child even if he wants the mom to have an abortion. She agreed to use a surrogate, so she has responsibility without the choice for an abortion. At least, in my mind,…

But isn't the whole idea of a percentage based on food quality anyway, in a sense? I usually tip 20%, and servers at a steak house will inherently always make more than servers at a diner. So I don't think it's crazy to expect more vigilance out of servers who can expect 20% of a $200 meal than those who expect 20% of…

This is exactly my experience. I'm at a typical weight for my size, but the last 6 months were a slow increase in bleeding. I had another one put in, because like an idiot I thought it was just cause it was the end, but no. The one I have currently I have 1 week of no bleeding and 3-5 weeks of constant bleeding. I…

Implanon has been the best and the worst of birth controls for me (and also two of my friends). The first 2.5 years we had no bleeding or periods. However, the last half year we all had spotting all the time. I thought that maybe it was cause it was near the end, so I had another one put in and now it's like I have…

Exactly. I know a lot of people want to jump on her just for being who she is, but my BIL and his wife have 2 kids and both sets of grandparents in town. One grandmother is their nanny and the other set (my in-laws) are on call after hours and weekends. They literally have unlimited me time (weekend vacations, dinners…

I live in Texas, and I spend between $200-$260 per year on antiparasitics for the one mutt I have, $300 if you count the vet visit (and I go to a really expensive vet because I'm lazy and it's near my house). I don't find that unaffordable.

Yeah, but I was under the impression that it was designed to be sleeveless because it's a shell to be put under a suit - basically so that you don't have double the sleeves. Just because it's sleeveless doesn't mean oh well, that's the only way it can be worn.

Yes, privileged financially and also because academia is not so forgiving to women who have children then take time off for them.

Sadly, this author also wrote this article:

Hey! Thanks for that "grotesque skin condition" comment. It's not like those of us who have obvious skin conditions don't get comments like this all the time, so thanks for the reminder that we're "nightmare" human beings.

My concern is that I WILL love a baby as much, or more than, my puppy dog (who is actually 5 years old). I worry about that dog so much, I don't know how I could stand raising a child and sending it out into the world. I used to not understand why mom would freak out if I didn't call home to check in every 2 days. Now…

Yeah, if this had been an old man kissing a younger woman on the lips in a situation where it was clearly improper and uninvited, I doubt we'd be seeing him hailed as "heroic" or "awesome." But Jezebel has that double standard, and I'm anticipating the women here who are going to say, "But power imbalance! Women can't…

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What irritates me the most about this is how it's all white people saying, "It's not a big deal!" I wasn't offended by the initial thing - it's all part of the background "satire" of my ethnicity that makes it so that people understand exactly what ching chong ding dong is without having to explain. Honestly, EGR's…

So a white person wrote an essay to defend another white person for satirizing an entire ethnicity that is not theirs, essentially using the defense of, "You're overreacting, it's a joke!" Okay, got it. She also used the, "This person supports your position, and that person sucks, therefore you're wrong" logical…

She didn't say anything to that effect. Good god.

If your attacker's mother is a wealthy donor, well then, sucks to be you: http://gawker.com/5669754/the-ra…

While I empathize with her situation, she's not blameless. If the conditions of using the lactation were available to her, then she is responsible for knowing that. If someone had told her, that would have been nice, but ultimately it was her responsibility. I feel like that's a basic concept that everybody learns in…

I am half-Indian, and I have lived that experience whenever I visit my dad's family in India. It sucks. But...I still wouldn't feel comfortable writing this "article." When it comes right down to it, I'm not from that culture. The only thing I get to say is, "This isn't for me." I got such a sense of smug…

I thought when my husband and I started fostering that I'd end up a crazy dog lady with a bajillion dogs I couldn't give up, but it was actually easier than I thought it would be to let them go to their forever homes. I LOVE dogs, but the idea that maybe they're going to a perfect home for them makes it easier to let…