Well...Good luck with that.

And then there are women like me, who actually need to have their hormones adjusted. Otherwise, I bleed too much and become dangerously anemic. It's not fun.

You know who else compared Obamacare to Apartheid?

For the older girl: James and the Giant Peach, Stuart Little, The Little House on the Prairie Series, Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, Superfudge, The Trumpet Swan, Because of Winn-Dixie, The Borrowers, Charlottes Web, A Wrinkle in Time, the Ramona series, Island of the Blue Dolphins, The Boxcar Children, the Nancy…

No. It's not quite simple. Because those fabulous, ethical, local companies sell their clothes at a higher price. Now, many people do not buy them simply because they do want the cheaper (say, WalMart) option. But many, many people cannot afford the higher price (because, say, they work at WalMart, which does not pay…

People don't care because they don't know. I'm a fashion blogger, and one of the things I blog about is where things are made, the polluting factors involved in textile manufacturing, and so forth. Most people are shocked to find out this is going on. And when I tell the that companies like Wal-Mart are…

I think the thing is, we all have been told time and time again how to reduce our risk. We know not to get too drunk, we know to watch our drink, we know to stay in groups, we know not to walk home alone. In fact, most of us have spent years modifying our behavior to avoid these situations. It's not prevention- it's…

You also don't get to control your family members' lives. They are your family, but you don't own them. If they are adults, they can make their own choices. You don't get to pick for them, even if their choices hurt your feelings.

No, before I quit smoking, I got super annoyed when my "friends" lectured me about smoking. I know it's unhealthy, I'm not an idiot. It was fine if people asked me not to smoke around them, because secondhand smoke does affect other people, but butt the fuck out about what I do on my own. My unhealthy habits are my…

"Only 3% of the wizened masses believe it's best for women to wait until they're over 30 to have babies."

The title kind of implies that there's something wrong with the idea that women should have babies for 26, but I'm not sure how that's any worse than saying that a woman should wait to have babies until after…

And a long series of repeated gang rapes is "this whole ridiculousness."

Not agreeing or disagreeing with the original position that being paid 160K means you can be disrespected as a woman. HOWEVER, the 160K salary is the standard Big Law salary in large markets (NYC, SF, LA, DC, etc.) and Clifford Chance is a Big Law firm whose first-years make that salary. So it's fair to use that…

A shout-out of encouragement from the other side: I supported my husband and myself for 3 1/2 years while my husband finished his degree. (He worked part-time, too, but didn't make very much per hour, so it was pretty much down to me to pay the bills.) When he graduated and got a full-time job again: oh my God, the…

Supporting an unemployed/underemployed partner is fucking stressful. Been with my man for 2.5 years and he's been in school for 1 year of that and then searched for jobs for about 5 months and now is training in a job that is commission based (i.e. is not currently making money). It's emotionally and financially…

Look. Women photographed in coats instead of tight clothing. All the time.

Usually there are confidential help lines, etc, for lawyers struggling with mental illness and substance abuse. They are set up by the bar association in your state and they won't tell her job — the whole point is to encourage lawyers with problems (usually alcoholism) to seek help in a safe environment before they do…

That's not a decision that anyone sitting on the internet reading about it gets to make.

In his defense, he sounds super drunk. Sheriosly, sheriously, Carol.

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I, for one, am SO tired of hearing the argument that "we don't want to pay for you to have sex." It's like people have no freaking idea how insurance works.