I work with ob-gyns and most of the horror stories I’ve heard from them involve men.

I work for an organization that deals with ob-gyns, and our diversity initiatives involve trying to get more men (along with other underrepresented groups) involved in the specialty.

The fact that it’s slated for a January release has me a little worried, as that’s usually a dumping ground for crappy movies, but the premise has me really excited, so fingers crossed it’ll be awesome.

I came into the office this morning after a few days away and discovered my officemate had rearranged her desk. There’s now a nice big open space in the middle of the room, and before I could stop myself I yelled “Look at all the room for activities!”

Ray Lewis was all over the Baltimore news in the wake of Freddie Gray’s death, preaching that respectability politics garbage. He filmed some video from his mansion up in the suburbs, telling poor black kids in the city that they shouldn’t protest because “violence isn’t the answer.”

My house is bigger than my husband and I strictly need, but we’d been looking for a house for about 2 years and this was far and away the closest match to everything we wanted in a house. It covered the three requirements that eluded us for a long time: a great yard for our dogs, a decent-sized garage for our car…

I remember getting into a huge fight with one of my best friends about this when we were in eighth grade. I didn’t watch the season, but she was telling me about the slap and the “girl going crazy because of Lyme Disease.” My dad had Lyme when I was a little kid, and so I tried to tell her that it doesn’t make you…

I think it’s beautiful that in this situation, wherein a group of 8th grade girls (who are basically just a gangly mess of hormones and insecurity) who had a crush on the same boy saw him messing with the dynamic of their friend group, and told him to fuck off, rather than turning on each other. That’s a solid group…

Just realized I wrote that my prom dress was the first sleeveless dress I’d ever worn. That’s not true— I meant it was the first STRAPLESS dress I’d ever worn, but it’s way too late to edit.

My dress was super simple (back then I was super no-frills, if I was going to a prom now I’d be like “Bring on the poofy tulle skirt!”) but it was an “eggplant” colored Jessica McClintock dress, so I’m pretty sure it still counts as a 2001 time capsule. It was the first sleeveless dress I ever wore (I had to borrow a…

You can definitely socialize an older dog— not always, but it can happen with a lot of work and dedication. My mother-in-law has a cocker spaniel that spent the first five years of her life as a breeder dog in a puppy mill. When she was first adopted, she didn’t know how to use stairs. But my mother-in-law worked with…

He was such a standout on True Blood, I always expected him to become a bigger star.

Kara, we’ll miss you, but can we talk about the real issue here: JAMAICA KINCAID READS JEZEBEL!!! (Do you guys think she’s a regular commenter? If you’re reading this Ms. Kincaid, hi! I’m a big fan of your work!)

I had to double check the top picture before I realized the two white guys pictured are not the white guy leads of Hawaii Five-0, but are in fact the two white guy leads on a different CBS show.

His bullying “tough guy” persona seems like a perfect fit for Fox News or conservative talk radio. Or maybe a conservative think tank? He’s so toxic I can’t see anyone who’s not overtly right-wing hiring him.

Right? I was really annoyed reading all the “Team No One” posts yesterday. I’m firmly on the team of the woman whose personal shit was posted online in an attempt to shame and silence her. I don’t care what she did or what a “garbage person” she is, no one deserves that, and the fact that it came from her ex-partner…

I love that in the weird peanut butter Tweet, the top response is from Bif Naked, and the two women go on to have a whole conversation about peanut butter.

Fair enough. They may have filmed stuff where she consented, but what was aired only showed her saying “No” and “Stop.”

Most horrifying of all was that the people involved— the director, showrunners, etc.— didn’t think it was actually rape! I remember from the think pieces at the time, they were all talking about how Cersei “consented by the end” which was utter bullshit, as nothing she did or said during that entire scene indicated…