Yeah, my mother is a surgeon. She has also repeatedly warned me about the dangers of blood donation my entire life. When I press her about the reasons why, she said suddenly losing a portion of your blood is a shock to your system and will lead to long term side-effects. She said she knows this because she saw several…

Nope.

I love Patton Oswalt’s bit about how you have to ACKNOWLEDGE everyone’s opinion but you absolutely do not have to RESPECT everyone’s opinion. Some opinions are stupid and wrong.

No, people who don’t believe in vaccines are absolutely fuckwits and it is not okay to have a differing opinion. Science isn’t about opinions. It’s about verifiable facts. The facts indicate that vaccines do not have any relation to autism. If your mom believes otherwise, she is a crap pediatrician.

I’m an accountant. I’m the first-born. I plan things. I am organized. The concept of “birth plan” is fucking laughable to me. I mean, call it requests, or a wish list. But trying to plan for that seems insane. I asked my doctor what a birth plan was exactly and whether I needed to be making one. She was like “Oh, you…

I have seen a couple of sites trying to make a fuss out of this and say that homophobia was some sort of skeleton in Fred Rogers’ closet. But that is really judging people of half a century ago by the morality of today. It is amazing that Clemmons wasn’t fired. Gay people (especially men) around children was regarded…

My mother went to school with children who were part of the last wave of Polio in the US. They’d survived being in an iron lung. Those who could still walk did so with leg braces. Many now face dealing with Post-Polio Syndrome.

“But that’s not part of my birth plan!”

On the show, he would say, “I love you just the way you are.” One day I said, “Fred, were you talking to me?” And he looked at me and he said, “Yes, I’ve been talking to you for two years and you finally heard me today.” And I just collapsed into his arms. I started crying. That’s when I knew I loved him.

I don’t see where you’ve also acknowledged that there was a production company and PBS making the show and therefore would have reacted strongly against an openly gay man working on a childrens show. There was probably a threat of cancelling the whole show, and perhaps that is why Fred Rogers reacted the way he did.…

Not only that but I’ve always viewed anti-vac people as basically saying “I’d rather my kid die of a preventable disease than be autistic.” Because that’s what it pretty much boils down to. They don’t want an autistic child, and they blame the vaccines for that possibility. They’d rather their child just outright die…

One of worst aspects of all this is the message it sends about what’s valuable in others. Even if the anti-vaxxers had it right, is having a dead child better than one on the spectrum? I understand that it’s hard and it must be heartbreaking to see your child struggle with Autism but they’re alive for you to see it.

The only part of the natural drug-free home birth in water plan that I’m judging is the part where she’s being sanctimonious about it before it even happens. Kat, honey. The fact is you don’t always get to have the labour and delivery of your optimistic dreams.

Kat has been garbage waaaaaaaaaaay before this revelation

There’s not much I judge parents on, but failing to vaccinate is absolutely one of them.

Right??? The only reason these morons get to rest on their anti-vacc laurels is because of the generations before them who DID vaccinate, thus ensuring herd immunity..

And, if you don’t know what it’s like to have the entire world openly criticize, judge, throw uninformed opinions,

“...according to Joy, “At a certain point you’re almost putting a bandaid on a bullet wound. And that wound is the theology; that wound is the ideology.””

Paul was the salesman/conman. The Trump of the early church.

Don’t forget, people also live to be 800 years old too! I have no idea why Evangelical types use the Old Testament as justification for their horrible beliefs when the “Christ” in Christian wasn’t even around until the New Testament, and pretty much contradicts all the old garbage.