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I feel like there are a lot of different conversations happening here, OK? One is about women using socially legitimising situations to undermine other women in ways that cause resentment. The attention, the accolades, the 'OMG YOUR WITH BEBE' which cause resentment in women who are not getting their due doing their

Oh fuck off. I'm glad you had no morning sickness or other complications. That's not the same for every pregnant woman.

I wish I could star this more. Pregnancy is a natural and normal thing that can cause extreme issues that prevent people from going about their normal lives. Pregnancy has always been like this and will always been like this. Thanks to modern medicine, many women and babies survive when in the past the issues you

Wow, some of these comments are extremely difficult to read, as a working woman who's currently trying to conceive. I mean, if some feminists are saying every pregnant woman they've worked with for the last 20 years have been terrible to deal with, that pregnant women have special snowflake syndrome and are accusing

I hear that that must have been a frustrating experience for you, but it sounds very much like not the pregnant woman's fault - it's the fault of a company that thought in that situation they should give one guy two full time jobs instead of hiring a competent replacement during the maternity leave that it sounds like

Do people really argue that? That...is maybe one of the dumbest things I've heard. That's like arguing it's unfair that a co-worker gets some long-term sick benefits for being out for surgery or something. Pregnancy and delivery is a health thing and you need time to recover afterwards and settle into parenting. It's