I understand why the author tries to make this tie-in, but tbh I really do not think it connects in a real way with the aims of people who oppose abortion. The largest contingency (i.e., religiously-motivated Catholics) would inherently oppose any coma surrogacies in which a woman was not already carrying a…

What strikes me as tricky here is that Judaism is clearest on a right to abortion (especially after 40 days) if the mother’s life is “in danger.” Hypothetically any pregnancy could be framed as “a danger,” but that’s clearly not what Judaic texts are referring to. If it’s mothers life vs. fetal life, it’s no question…

I apologize if I came across as making it about me. This was more to my point, because frankly, minors’ feelings guiding medical decisions is a bit wild. Greg Abbott is a piece of garbage, transphobia is real and incredibly damaging, and people should be able to do what they want as a rule of thumb, but it’s difficult…

I mean, this just isn’t an answer though. If I’d been presented with hormones, instead of deciding to see gender as more fluid, who knows...

I’m prepared to be downvoted and I know the author did the best she could for her daughter but I’m always torn when things like makeup or tutus or unicorns are the origin story for a MtF transition story. I liked exclusively stereotypical “boyish” things well into my teens and would sometimes say I wanted to be a boy.…

I am a Catholic convert who is also a law student and progressive-leaning. I despise the American anti-abortion crowd (my mom used to run a crisis pregnancy center that deliberately engaged in false advertising) and I’ve voted blue every time. I have my religious convictions about abortion but I don’t make that a…

Might want to edit the pronouns. Author is on Twitter throwing a tantrum about these comments, and being “misgendered” may be their only valid complaint.

I’d recommend changing the pronouns. Author identifies as they/them. Drag away, but drag *them.*

What an odd piece with a lot of ambiguity. Without more info, it sounds like the author married a cishet man knowing they were queer, and presumably with him knowing they were queer, and then the author resented that arrangement for not letting them be “queer” enough despite fully knowing that’s not how queerness…

But now Taylor is confronted face-to-face with his daughter’s sexuality, which according to all the parenting I’ve seen on TV is a father’s worst nightmare.

I’m a woman who converted to Catholicism from an evangelical, Protestant church when I was 19, in 2012 (for theological reasons). Then and now, I’ve struggled heavily with the Church’s abhorrent handling of sex abuse, amongst other issues. But my two long-term thoughts, then and now, are that (1.) for me learning…

I’m not the hugest fan of FDS but one thing that subreddit is reliably good at is helping women realize that they’re abused. Especially when so much of the broader internet/men in general/many women will gaslight other women about abuse.

I had a conversation with my mom last night (militantly anti-choice, single-choice voter, used to help run a faith-based crisis pregnancy center). This law and this doctor came up. She fully admitted that she’d rather have abortion be de facto or federally illegal with MORE self-medicated abortions happening off the…

I would die for Jennifer Garner. I grew up watching Alias with my dad and she has alway seemed like the nicest person with the worst ex-husbands.

Have you competed in sports? Gender, and general hormone differences between genders, are MUCH more impactful than height/weight in most scenarios. I was a tall, athletic rower in college (I’m a woman). Shorter, less trained men were still stronger and could lift heavier/go faster than me. And that holds true…

I posted around Thanksgiving about struggling with a divorce from an emotional abuser while in law school, and just about two months later, I’m two weeks (!!) away from the divorce finalizing and have locked down a dream summer job with a V10 firm (really good firm!) in my dream/home city (San Francisco!). I haven’t…

so I searched my iMessages for a specific word/phrase that I knew we had a text-fight about. I re-read that little snippet of our convo and was like holy shit, this dude is a monster, why did I stick around for this?

For anyone else reading comments, Lundy Bancroft has really good books (“Why Does He Do That?” and others) that can help recognize when “your” insecurities are actually your body/mind telling you to either seriously rethink the relationship or to get out. Women are traditionally socialized to just smooth things over…

I have no idea, because a break up is the denial of access to another person’s life and thoughts and feelings. They are foreclosed to you. So instead, what I carry around with me is something him-like but fundamentally not him

My god, if what your ex did to you is “adoration,” no thanks. I’m sorry he did that to you. I feel like we are in very similar places, especially your entire middle paragraph. I’ll be boiling an egg and be hit with memories of all the times that we had a nice diner breakfast together, and then I’ll have to remind…