I think she should tell the niece, but frame it more about “here’s what you need to know about guys who you consider safe because you know them.” I don’t know that the aunt needs to disclose the father’s identity, but the story’s important.

And that, ladies and gentleman, is how LaComtesse finally scored a ticket for Novemeber*. Now, if you’ll excuse me...

I kinda think that you need your husband to agree to having a kid, personally. I wouldn’t say “I don’t want you to have a kid at 70” is a demand. It may well have been, “what if you die for this kid we might not even be here to parent?” Reasonable women don’t add additional family members and lifelong obligations…

It’s more than a little bit selfish. It’s ENORMOUSLY selfish. Saddling this poor kid with elderly parents from the get-go. Parents who will, in all likelihood, become frail and then die before he reaches adulthood.

I am so sorry that you were assaulted. You weren’t assaulted because you didn’t say no, you were assaulted because a rapist decided to rape you.

What does a bay leaf smell like? Nothing.

The not all men thing drives me up the goddamn wall for two reasons. One, the stupid brush-off defensiveness that you so rightly point out.

Two, WHO CARES IF YOU AREN’T ACTIVELY A RAPIST, YOU DERIVE TREMENDOUS ADVANTAGE FROM THE POWER DYNAMICS CREATED BY RAPISTS. Saying “not all men” simultaneously denies…

No need to bet ... Quite a few years back a Jezzie shared this in the comments and I don’t remember who, but I try to return the favor and share it widely, an article from 2000 called “The only moral abortion is my abortion”. http://www.prochoiceactionnetwork-canada.org/articles/anti-…

I’m not sure that is fair. She had treatment once she was diagnosed. SHe only stopped once she saw that it wasn’t working. Yes she should have been prescreened before she got pregnant and I hope everyone learns from that and gets a Papsmear but let’s remember she just fucking died and saying she didn’t find her…

I mean, apparently not. They wouldn’t had to have darkened her skin and made her wear prosthetics if that was the case. If she was as “transcendent” as they claimed, her performance should’ve spoken for itself, right? Guess not.

Yeah, idk. I was addressing the no treatment statements people were making, and how prenatal care with a pap smear would’ve made a difference. You know what? Probably not. Her cancer was probably to advanced for anything but a radical hysterectomy when she got pregnant.

As an oncologist, this family’s decision to go public with Joey’s experiences with hospice has been incredibly helpful. Half of adults in the US die within 2 weeks of being transitioned to hospice, which means that those people and their families mostly likely didn’t get any good time at the end. Joey went on hospice…

I know. Jesus, she's not even buried yet. This whole comment section has left a bitter taste in my mouth.

my family has an inside joke around gift-giving, where if we don’t like a gift we acknowledge it’s objective features: “ooh, a blue shirt with polkadots! thank you so much!”

They’re just ordinary people.

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I can let you in on the secret. He is not the real Cary Elwes. The real Elwes has been retired fifteen years and living like a king in Patagonia.

“All lives matter” can only be true, once we start acting like “black lives matter”, otherwise “all lives matter” is a fallacy because we act like black lives dont...

“I must make two honest confessions to you, my Christian and Jewish brothers. First, I must confess that over the last few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the…