Other things that I’ve read have blamed some of this on increasing chronic conditions like diabetes, heart disease and so on. I’m sure it’s not the only factor, but I’m guessing it doesn’t help.

One thing to keep in mind is that rates change drammatically depending on the race of the mother. I was in Amnesty International around the time (like a decade ago, to be fair) that they came out with a report showing Hispanic women were at a much greater risk than white women.

Why don’t they just go to Planned parenthood? Oh wait.

If anyone gave a crap about preventing abortions, they would be all for free birth control and medically accurate sex ed.

Also, can I just add here that maaaaaybe the women who would actively seek to prevent pregnancy in the first place (but don’t always have the financial resources to do so without these clinics) are a good judge that pregnancy may not have the healthiest outcomes for themselves?

I had the opportunity to sit in on a Olympic level gymnastics practice for a week, as the gym we were sharing was being used for pre-Olympic training. I don’t think many people comprehend just how special these athletes are. It’s as if you are watching another species; like watching a cat “gliding” effortlessly the…

Because there is a performative aspect to gymnastics that most other Olympic sports, aside from figure skating, lack. You are a tiny person in a vast arena of people. While what they are doing looks massive on TV, when the frame is tightly cropped in, it is fairly easy to get distracted away from it when you are in…

No kidding. Canada had a historic 5th place finish and neither NBC, CBC, nor BBC aired any of her routines. I watched them on Instagram. Instead they showed mostly routines by athletes outside the top ten, and about triple as much airtime to super-close-ups of the leaders waiting for their scores and wrapping their…

Yeah, but that BBC dude, tho....“All those island nations who can learn to swim....”

This entire Olympics has been PhelpsWatch 2016. I love Michael Phelps but JFC we sent other athletes to Rio. I was complaining about this AND THEN they added the clock and my head exploded.

I promise no one will laugh at you. White customers who patron “ethnic salons” are muuuuuuuch more common than you think. I promise. Especially for White women with curly hair. TBH, I completely understand your reluctance, and it’s normal. But Black customers/clients aren’t going to be as judgmental as one may think.…

My (inner) response to when my dad says, “If we can get Trump in the whitehouse,”:

This is such bullshit. I pointed this out to someone who is a “supporter”. Their response would have been funny had it not been chilling. She said “Well, in my day a woman knew her place. You don’t speak out against those who are wealthier because they are more powerful. This little girl (ACK!!!!) should be covering…

Guarantee you human skidmarks like the original poster here would still find a way to blame her and excuse the rapist. Same way people like him still found a way to blame Philando Castile for his own murder.

You had me in the beginning, then you lost me. I think I understand what you’re trying to express, but you really are expressing it badly. As one of the other comments says, no one (aside from a very small minority of people desperate for attention) is running to report a rape if it didn’t really happen. Its…

I think that as long as there’s a culture of guys purposefully trying and encouraging girls and women to get drunk because they know that it will lower their inhibitions, thus increasing the guy’s chance of “scoring” things will continue to skew in the direction of the perception of male as the aggressor. Typically,…

Everyone knows eye contact is an invitation!

Your reasoning sounds like that of a person whose MO is getting very drunk people (and perhaps actively contributing to their drunkenness) to have sex with him while knowing they might/probably would not have agreed to when sober, and then using his own drunkenness as an excuse for his quite deliberate behavior.

Also, if the virgin in my scenario talked to the guy at all before the rape - like, he asked her what time it was, and she answered - she was leading him on and sending mixed signals, and therefore it is no longer “rape rape”.

Thank you Jesus for Youtube, otherwise, I’d be SOL when it comes to dealing with my natural hair. It’s taught me everything, from the process of co-washing. The awesomeness of the Shea Moisture line (which doesn’t cost an arm and a leg). How to make my own conditioning oils and hair pomades and what products to buy.…