That is so horrible and so true.

I can’t even imagine how heartbreaking everything about this was. Thank you so much for taking action in protecting your child. And thanks for sharing this (thanks to Jezebel for publishing too). It must have taken great courage to share this, and I am sure that you have positively impacted many people today.

Excellent example of a representative from the family values party.

I’m sorry that happened to you. I had a similar thing happen with my parents where I had horrible pain in my ear, they assumed I was being dramatic and my eardrum ended up rupturing after 2 days of no sleep and constant crying from pain. It really impacts your trust in people when someone who should care for you…

Agreed, one of the things that I find really compelling about my partner is his feminism.

This is solid advice. The other thing I mention in cases like that is that life is FULL of stress. You want someone who even when under stress isn’t a complete asshole because they will be stressed a lot over the course of time.

I have a massage therapist who I love, but I find her woo unappealing. She gets so into the essential oils and their healing powers and stuff and ugh. But damn it she is so close and very sweet and I feel great after so I keep going.

But visualizing something that is not real is different than being sold something that was promised some magical property. Also placebo can be used to increase the efficacy of science based medicine. The color of a pill, or what a doctor says when she prescribes it impacts how effective it is.

I was really struggling a few years ago and kickboxing helped me a lot. I loved the intensity of the work out, the physical contact. For a moment, I was totally focused, totally alive. Getting hit made me feel alive, hitting someone else even more so, and powerful. It was intimidating as I was the only women with a…

Holy shit. When my kid was 4 he didn’t even know what country he lived in. This is unimaginably cruel. I honestly don’t understand how these people sleep at night.

It’s definitely worth reading, I highly recommend it.

I hope so. I have zero respect for my republican representative who is a self serving slime bag (Rep. Jaimie Herrera Beutler in case anyone wonders). A fantastic woman is running against her and I am going to do everything in my power to get her elected. I am donating, volunteering, I am determined to see decency win…

This is a good one.

Agreed. I called my senators who are working on this to thank them and tell them they have my vote. And my representative who is as helpful as a stump will be getting a daily phone call from me telling her what I think of her and letting her know I vote. It helps somewhat to channel my dismay at humanity.

These fucking evil bastards. I am getting up early every morning to call my representatives and voice my thoughts—both in thanks for my two senators who actually give a shit and are trying to make things better, and to my loathsome representative who I hate and detest. Also I am donating to said loathsome representativ…

That always bothered me as well. Although honestly my impression is that they are pretty high income and would probably hire someone to come clean regularly. It would be an interesting plot point to show the kids doing chores or not and Bow getting annoyed at the second shift.

A “shithole” country is the term that comes to my mind.

This book sounds so interesting! And what a great interview, the Victorians are fascinating.

Nope. And yet I think she thinks she knows more than us plebeians

I know! I think one of the appeals of the anti vax movement is they think they have special information, they are smarter than those hoards of dummies who follow medical recommendations.