Again, I commend you on sticking to your satire. It's layered. At first I thought you were just making fun of sexist Black men, but then I realized that such exaggeratedly feigned ignorance was in fact a mockery of how White men would perceive Black men as sexist and inferior.

i really wish you hadn't connected this to the other incident just because the other woman happened to be black. The other woman clearly violated the dress code and was told so and can return when in compliance with the clearly stated dress code.

Economics 100: If someone is saving you $600 by giving you a motherfucking cake, the "can't afford it" argument goes out the flipping window.

maybe 20 years ago? but these days plenty of people don't get married for whatever reason and that doesn't make their relationships less valid. Hell, these days 50% of people who are married when they come to your wedding might not be in 5-10-15 years. I think it's more of a case-by-case these days. And five years is…

But isn't a long term boyfriend/girlfriend the same as a clearly committed partner?

It seems like a five-year relationship should get LW1 and her bf under the case-by-case-exception umbrella. What if they never plan to get married?

I think your policy is sound, but it doesn't sound like LW1's friend is doing that at all, in which case it seems unfair to me. I'm sorry but if you invite a close friend to your wedding who is giving you a motherfucking CAKE, AND THEN you ask her bf to throw the bachelor party, it's a dick move to not invite said bf,…

I think what people fail to realize when they say "She's just promoting fitness!" is that she isn't. By asking "What's your excuse?" on a photo of her, she's essentially asking what your excuse is for not looking like her, while also heavily implying that if you just weren't so lazy, you could totally look like this!…

I'm with you. I think it's super fun to make fun of Gwyneth's quotes and interests because they are so bougie—but I don't really hate her for it? I think people act like she's shoving her interests and expensive taste in our faces, but I don't see how she does that more than, oh, the entire fashion industry does…

The Internet (and Jezebel) keeps telling me I should hate Gwyneth Paltrow, and while it's true that what I know about Paltrow could fit comfortably on the back of a postage stamp, I have yet to see some damning smoking gun that convinces me. I once saw a list of supposedly offensive quotes, and they were so innocuous…

Thanks for that.

I'm just not huge into criticizing people. Though it seems to bring a lot of enjoyment to folks, so maybe I'm missing out!

The Denver Post one doesn't seem all that racist to me. They probably made the pun in reference to escape velocity rather than escaped slaves.

I hear all kinds of anecdotal stories about how bad homebirths are because someone knows someone whose baby was born with the cord around the neck. I delivered in a hospital. My baby had the cord around her neck. The doctor was NOT THERE. Because they thought I would take longer to start pushing, so they weren't even…

I am not a regular commenter here, but I often read the comments on Jezebel, and usually find them to be intelligent, balanced, and generally supportive of a woman's right to choose what is best of her, particularly when it comes to bodily autonomy. However, I'm finding the tone of these comments to be a little bit…

For everybody out there that would like to see all babies born in hospitals - the solution is not banning homebirth or berating women who home birth as selfish, stupid, or ignorant. The solution is to change the way OBs and hospitals practice so that all of them focus on creating a safe and comfortable place to give…

That was just a hypothetical about the emergency c-section (which I probably should not have used because it's misleading). The birth center actually said that almost all "emergency" c-sections are performed because labor is stalling, or the baby's heart rate is going down —- events that happen slowly and are not true…

The good news is that Mama doesn't clean up a thing. My midwife and her assistants cleaned up and even ran the laundry. My only job was to lay in bed and snoogle on my new baby.

I was going to star this, but I can't get behind "the illusion of responsibility." I'm getting my prenatal care from a birth center and plan to deliver there. There is probably variability in how safe birth centers are, but the one I go to is very "responsible." It is run by certified nurse midwives who have RN…

It's not just about being natural, it's the quality of care that you receive when you sign up with a birth center. Both of my pregnancies have been treated with midwives in a birth center (I'm still pregnant with #2…) and you get longer appointments that are held on time, face-to-face conversations where actual…