Exactly! I do not have any paid leave, 0 days, 0. But I make good money and my in-las and mom will move closer to where we live to help when I have kids. I am saving to afford the 12 unpaid weeks (I should not have to but thanks America). But I can save. Lower wage women can't save and they may not have the benefit of…

Unless I’m mistaken, I don’t think the professors at my university get paid parental leave. You either have to plan it (or be lucky enough) so the baby arrives at the beginning of the summer, or you have to take a huge pay cut to take leave. It’s kind of surprising, but at the same time not in the least bit…

The daughter of a friend of mine was dating a 30 year old guy when she was in university. At the end of first year the daughter told my friend that she wanted to rent a house with her friends and her boyfriend. My friend responded “Are you sure it’s ok with your friends? What 18 year old girl wants to live with a…

There’s got to be a way to communicate to 17-year-old girls that 25-year-olds who seek out teenagers and live with their parents are not suitable romantic candidates. I understand that in most cases, telling a kid not to do something like that just makes them want to do it more. I feel for this young lady. It’s not as…

The anti-universal healthcare Canadians, all 30 of them, spend their time extolling the superiority of America’s clusterfuck-till-you-die healthcare stateside with conservative politicians and several of my distant relatives.

Lucky you. One of my loose acquaintances brought a date go my place and he Went on about how great privatized health care was. It was everything I could do not to ask him to leave. I know so many people who would be bankrupt or dead if it weren’t for universal health care.

I live in Scotland and hear people bash the NHS all the time and I’m just like WHAAAAAT, you guys have no idea how lucky you are. I usually tell people about the time that the old woman in front of me at the pharmacy in my home state couldn’t afford her heart medication ($500 a month). She wasn’t responding to the…

I read an interview once with a doctor from New York who was part of a team of American doctors in Canada studying Canadian health care. She said our system is an American doctor’s ideal, because in the U.S. doctors spend so much time dealing with billing and other administrative tasks and ours just practice medicine.

My mom moved to the US to study medicine, & her absolute befuddlement at the hostility towards Univ. healthcare is prime comedic material.

Which raises an interesting point about a candidate who wants to be president but wasn’t born in the US. Are the right-wing birther crackpots not going after Cruz because Canada isn’t in Africa, or because he’s white?

As a Canuck I’ve literally never heard a single person bash universal health care. Not one. Sure, I’ve heard people bitch about this or that small part of it (why do we have to get our health cards renewed now? Why can’t we fast track med-school equivalency testing for immigrant doctors?) but every single one of us…

Keep him Keep him We don’t want him back

She did later tweet about how if Cruz had spent a few years growing up in Canada he would’ve been less of a dingbat about universal healthcare

SO MUCH ROOTING.

This post kinda comes across as “she should have just learned to get over it instead of going with surgery.” That’s kind of a false dichotomy, no? There were reasons to get them reduced outside of what she might be ashamed of or whatever (clothing, health, etc.).

Unless you’re married and planning on having kids soon, you might want to consider doing it anyway. That’s kind of like putting off buying new clothes because you might lose weight one day...you deserve to look and feel good now.

Good for her! I had a breast reduction at 16, and it was the best thing that could’ve ever happened for my body and my teenage self-esteem. No regrets over 20 years later. Cannot give enough kudos to my parents for being so supportive and our insurance company for paying.

It shouldn’t if you’re wearing bras that are correctly measured. But, if you’re not (read: Victoria’s Secret) then yes ... because those band size aren’t right anyway.

Weird that she went from a 32F to a 34D. Does one’s band size typically change after breast reduction?

Good for her! My friend got a breast reduction and she always says it was the best decision she ever made. Plus it was covered by insurance, since for back pain reasons it was considered a medical necessity.