“Elmo is love”. Adults may think he’s annoying, but children really do relate to him.

I laughed at this because I empathize. My kid, however, IS Don, so I figure it’s good for him to see somebody like him on television.

UGH FUCKING CAILLOU. As a Canadian, I believe he is a far worse export than the Biebs. So sorry, world.

Also? Why do the Pteranodon family boys get real(ish) names, but the girls are named Shiny and Tiny? And why does their big dinosaur friend always get backed by a ponderous tuba and thinly-veiled fat jokes? FUCK Dinosaur Train, man. The worst.

This is great! Dinosaur Train also recently introduced an autistic character the show. My kiddo loves Dinosaur Train and it makes me so happy that she can see someone like her on her favorite shows.

I’m glad they made her a girl. It took me until I was 17 to get diagnosed with Aspergers and I’m pretty sure my being a girl had a large part in that. Not just because of prejudice, but because girls on the spectrum can often present different symptoms than boys. For instance my mother was told that it wasn’t possible…

I’m happy. I know she will probably be nothing like my daughter with autism, but just creating a character that can introduce the concept of autism/kids are different is great.

Sesame Street introduced me to diversity back in the day and I’m glad to see it’s still fulfilling that role, anyway. As a rural white child in the early 1970s, I didn’t see people of color IRL ever and knew they existed only because of Sesame Street.

Mr. Lockerupagus

I’m pre-emptively angry that Julia doesn’t reflect every single autistic person’s experience. Fuck this puppet.

Trump’s plan translated into Valyrian:

This kind of bullshit in-fighting is precisely why the conservatives — who, despite all their faults, are ace at holding their noses in the interest of presenting a solid front to their opponents and attaining their goals— manage to get so much fuckery done while the liberals argue about everything under the sun.

A lot of the privilege criticism about the strike seemed to be a race to be the wokest of them all.

You made this whole agonizing article worthwhile with this one simple, very obvious, point.

This is what exactly what is going on here- negative marketing. I am a physician and once every few months I encounter a patient who needs to tell me about the medicine ‘really’ works. About how “doctors make money off people being sick, not getting better” but “healers just want you to get better”. Now there are…

You are my hero.

My niece is a pediatrician. She’ll co-author it with you.

This is of course true. We should keep in mind that most if not all of the loaded terminology is being used in an honest way. Though they are certainly trying to steer the childbirth industry the way of the midwives, this doesn’t mean that they are doing it at the behest of the profit motive. I imagine they get into…

My cousin tried home birth for both of her babies, with different midwives. Both times, she ended up in the hospital to have the baby after long and complicated labors. The second time she got there by ambulance. It works for some people, but it’s not for everyone. The hospital has more resources to keep you and…

I completely agree. I had a CNM at a hospital for my first LD. In the end I still had to have a c-section but I felt like she did everything she safely could and she stayed with my husband and I in the OR during my surgery to support us and talk us through it. The OB on call was awful but that’s another story.