Juicebox!! :D

You're right, my blood pressure is skyrocketing. Too bad I don't have health insurance.

Watching a birth can be amazing...if you're invested in it all. But who are we to her; who is she to us? Is she going to have us crowding around her deathbed as well when the time comes?

I agree that the French rules regarding forms of address are more flexible. Russian has "ty" and "vy," and they are /worlds/ apart. "Ty" is very intimate, and so can be very derogatory. "Vy" is used for pretty much everything else. Also, Russian doesn't really have words for "Mr." or "Mrs."...Usually respect is…

A while ago I was reading a fashion blog (whose name escapes me now), and the author's partner had had a radical double mastectomy, and was pictured in several photos in public places appearing topless, or w/ v. little covering (like, suspenders). Sooo...I guess it's okay?

One of my very good friends is a twin (identical), and I am super-jealous of the bond between her and her sister. That said, it's not like parents are going to raise a pair of twins until it's time for college, and then kill one b/c they can only afford to educate one. A fetus is not alive, it's not a conscious…

YES THIS. As a biology grad student, I often see people misinterpreting behavior-related findings in neuroscience/endocrinology; they want to reduce human behavior to a few hormones or neurotransmitters, and things get over-simplified waaaaaaaay too much. Bottomline: human behavior is a complex and many-splendored…

Women MUST be able to have access to birth control. There's no justification for putting down anyone on The Pill. Still, there ARE reasons that the current state of things should make us uncomfortable. Here's an interesting article about it: [www.good.is]

You're a nice person for trying to answer this sensibly, but the poster is obviously a troll.

I know right!! I was like, THERE'S PLENTY OF ROOM, JACK, WHY ARE YOU JUST TREADING WATER AND WHINING? ROSE, MOVE OVER. As you can see, I still get worked up about it.

It's mostly a thumbnail effect, but Kate Winslet totally looks like she's wearing the Evil Queen's costume from Snow White.

AHHHH like I NEEDED another reason to be ashamed of being from the Midwest...

Yeah, I don't think babies should be fed until they /ask/ for food. You know, w/ unambiguous words, perhaps a written statement? If they REALLY want nourishment, they'll figure it out.

But...weren't the 90's all about reviving the 70's? At least, I seem to remember wearing a lot of bell-bottoms and rainbow color-schemes back then...

No no, we pale ladies have to stick together! B/c otherwise, one day a parent will tell her child, "In the days before we learned to tweak the gene that determines melanin levels in the skin, many people used to tan or get sprayed. But there were also pale people. Even though they were the color of newly unearthed…

...except Austria is not Eastern Europe.

Interesting. This actually seems more German to me heh. Also I want to get my boyfriend that rainbow underwear.

But look, THERE ARE POCKETS. Or at least A pocket. I want pockets on my suit!

ARGH, I wish when I was Elle Fanning's age—13, or 14?—I had appreciated that it would all be downhill from there. Now my twentysomething self looks at her pristine, epicene face and wonders how it can get back to its 9-year-old weight.

Perish the thought! I was going to shove it up my vagina and try to gestate it, like every good woman should when faced w/ a fetus.