Likewise, no one can tell an adult woman that she must seek obstetric care during her pregnancy if she would rather opt for a midwife. I did it. Totally legal.

On the other hand, Satan was absolutely correct in thinking that a home birth was adding unnecessary risk for absolutely zero good reason.

Having an opinion and expressing it to the mom-to-be are two very different things. I have a right to think it's stupid and dangerous as fuck to have a home birth in the middle of winter in Massachusetts when the nearest hospital is 30+ minutes away, with only a midwife present (something an acquaintance of mine is…

It's not a grey area. You and your boyfriend are in the wrong. Your boyfriend's roommates didn't sign up to live with three people. They signed up to live with two, and I can understand why one of his roommates is mad. You don't get to judge how much your presence bothers them, and your unhappiness with your living…

This new season of Twin Peaks is really freaking me out.

Why did you post all those links without reading them? You missed some very important facts: Tamoxifen is not chemotherapy. It's a form of hormone therapy, namely a SERM: A selective estrogen receptor modulator. It works by blocking the effects of estrogen on breast tissue, but acts like an estrogen in endometrial…

Several people in my life owe their very lives to toxic poisons, which are toxic to cancer cells, hallelujah. Tamoxifen blocks the action of estrogen, which is, unfortunately, a known human carcinogen. It's not right for everyone, but sometimes the benefits outweigh the downsides.

Can we please not make definitive, inflammatory statements like

As a childfree woman it has to become an integral part of our identities. Just as becoming a parent becomes part of your identity. A lot of us childfree people have to be more vocal about it because it is something we're constantly questioned about. You may not talk about your child around them but the message is…

The person who called the cops in the first place was probably motivated by race but I think the cop handled the situation well. When this story first broke i was expecting a whole different kind of conversation but the cop seemed professional to me. He was called to investigate a potential crime, either…

I've liked a lot of her collections in the past (this one isn't doing a lot for me, though), but I am rolling my eyes at her pro-Scottish-independence lines. "I feel like they" and "it seems more like" ARE NOT VALID CRITICISMS OF A MAJOR SOCIO-ECONOMIC POLITICAL ISSUE. You might as well just say you think Scotland…

She isn't saying that you should give up your team or loving your team. She's saying that you should recognize that supporting your team (and through them the NFL) while being disgusted at the way the NFL handled the situation makes you a hypocrite. She doesn't say "bad person". She says "hypocrite".

You're right. Which is why it's bizarre they decided to do this as an outpatient at a clinic instead of in a hospital. Therein lies some of the alleged negligence.

I'm all for pointing out cultural appropriation and calling out those who perpetrate it, but I fail to feel outrage over this video. I mean at least Taylor thinks that it's a dance equivalent to ballet and interpretive instead of going, "eww black girls shaking their asses, yuck". And if all the dancers were white,…

If by "your exercise regimen" the author means "the potato in all its forms," then, yes.

For some reason a lot of these make me kind of sad. People who are so specific and demanding about certain things, especially food, tend to have other stuff going on that's maybe not quite normal too. I know it sounds insane, but as someone with an eating disorder I kind of get where the coleslaw guy was coming from…

Does anyone have much experience with false-negative pregnancy tests?

Some of us know what happens to the big muscled guys when they stop lifting. . .

of course, I'm being mostly facetious, but you can tell them that the "real history" was that Palestine was controlled by the Brits and after the Kristallnacht and other terrible occurances against the Jews the British decided to allow the Jews to build their own country... within the territory the British controlled,…