Put him to work and don’t feel bad about it. I was lucky that my wife’s doc plainly laid out what she wasn’t allowed to do (anything) for at least a month to start. Unlucky in that my wife is super-stubborn and thought she could handle a couple of gallons of milk and reaching over her head with cans a couple of weeks…

People will offer to help, but in a vague generic way. Write a list of all the stuff that needs doing (eg empty dishwasher, fold laundry, feed cat) and stick it to the fridge and ask people to pick one. Not just for csection mum’s but more essential when you have to be careful with lifting and carrying.

Yea, follow your doc’s/OB’s orders to the letter. No lifting or any of that unless it’s been specifically ok’ed. Don’t be impatient thinking you’re superhuman.

Hassliebe, lit. hatelove

Depends on the pigment of the shooter’s skin. They could just be mentally ill.

This is Terrorism and I would not be surprised if this garbage was born in the USA.

Then my work here is DONE.

Texas did just that back in 2010. It’s now called “Letter Math.”

I don’t understand why it would be considered gross. It’s just a fucking fruit.

Yeah, I’m a guy but I don’t see why these ads should be a problem. 50+% of people deal with periods over the course of their lives. It’s part of life. Everybody grow the fuck up.

Thinx is banking on the ensuing outrage to generate even more publicity for them. Clever. I ain’t mad at it.

Honest bomb: I refused to do Thank You notes for our wedding unless my husband sat down and helped. I would have settled for an uneven split of the labor. A year later and only a handful of Thank You notes have gone out because I realized he had no intention of lifting a single finger even though he would often bemoan…

Yup.

Stop enabling that behavior. Stop showing him, or demand that he take a photo and tack it up above his desk or draw a diagram or something. Or better yet don’t even suggest a solution to it. If he lived in a house with all men, he wouldn’t pull that shit.

Because men don’t see the emotional work. Women are socialized from birth to recognize and respond to it. Men are not. The effort to bring men up to speed is exhausting. You talk and talk and talk until you’re blue in the face, hoping for one *aha* moment, and when it happens, they expect a freaking trophy because…

But part of the problem is that asking is part of the emotional work. Recognizing that it needs to be done, planning it, delegating tasks, all of that goes unseen.

I can’t really speak about the first thing, but I was my mum’s caretaker after she had just a hysterectomy. She said that for the first few days it felt like someone had repeatedly kicked her in the abdomen. She really had a hard time getting up to go to the bathroom those first few days but after that the healing…

Hey, I wanted you guys to know about this essay contest for students. The idea is to interview a woman in math and write an essay about it. It's organized by the Association of Women in Mathematics. Maybe you know someone who would be interested. https://help.cbp.gov/app/answers/de…

I feel like at a certain point you have to remove yourself from the crisis. It sucks and you sympathize but also there is nothing you can do. The funds also seem to be regularly misused so it's not your fault for being sketched out

Can I take a moment and comment that your eyebrows are amazing. That shape is absolute perfection.