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I will slowly lure all the Sportatorium commenters over here with stories about strippers and you will all be exquisitely uncomfortable but also very well informed about the feminist issues of the day, MY PLAN IS FLAWLESS

I kind of feel the same way. Like... I won't call for her head or anything and I know it's complicated but it's really, really hard for me to muster much sympathy. I'm too horrified thinking of what pain and terror that poor baby's life was filled with.

+1 for crowdsourcing child harassment techniques.

I have a 16 month old and reading this and then looking at him breaks my heart.

That's why she got the child endangerment sentence and not also a murder or manslaughter charge. We cannot know what she went through in this horrific situation that she had to live every day, but clearly the judge determined that her circumstances (abusive boyfriend, social status, etc) were mitigating factors that…

What a fucking horrible tragedy. It's hard to tell what really was going on with her. She could have been concurrently abused and convinced that the safest thing for her child was to not report the abuse.

Is it really re-victimizing someone? If you are abused, obviously you are a victim, but if it is proven you are unable to protect your children/continuing to put them in dangerous situations, you shouldn't have your kids anymore. Someone who can protect them should have them.

As a child whose mother failed to protect her from abusive stepfathers/boyfriends, I say fuck her. Children are utterly defenseless and can't leave an abusive situation under their own power. This woman's kids didn't choose her shitty boyfriend.

It is SO hard for me to subscribe to this theory. I want to be generous of spirit and forgiving, but my sympathy well is close to dry. It's hard for a child to accidentally get burned, repeatedly, and burns are exceedingly painful and scary. If the moms are, for whatever reason, unable to protect their children, maybe…

Reading all the IG post, is basically how I spent my Saturday evening.

I've always taken the step back approach with our daughter. She's pretty bright and I know she won't kill herself or anything so I can assure myself I'm not being negligent mom. But when it comes to something like this I never remind her about the smaller things. Sometimes a day or two of discomfort (realizing she's…

It was always really helpful for me to try my best to focus on how I felt, rather than how I looked. Like ok, I may not have lost any weight this week, but I slept like a baby. Or, I haven't seen any reduction of my belly fat yet, but my anxiety has been completely manageable. I think the way you look can be a…

[Thanks for sharing this to GT, Lucky! Seriously affirming piece.]
This piece really got me thinking about how I view my body and weight loss. I've recently started eating healthier and working out. It is slow progress. But I have realized I am way more critical of my body than anyone else is. My partner has been…

What I find particularly hard to deal with are the number of people who read all of these studies and hear all of these reports and still sneeringly say, "It's just calories in, calories out, dummy!"

"I made the eating plan fit into my life, rather than fitting my life into the diet."

What do you do if their shoes don't match?

Goldie looks good! But the really dark eye makeup is causing her to look a little too much like her character in Death Becomes Her. Same with Donatella.

It does not look terrible. I painted it and it looks great now, so there.