I was just commenting upstream about that "Get your body back" crap. Like you are some sort of alien now that doesn't even count as yourself.

You are only excused for the weight gain from pregnancy for about 2 months after the baby is born. Then everyone is telling you that you are letting down your partner if you don't lose the weight, that you are betraying yourself by letting motherhood take over your life and not losing the weight, and that you are…

I totally get what you are saying. There is a difference between the "freshman 15" or whatever else weight it is and "baby weight." In all the parenting mags, there are so many weight loss and exercise ads that scream "Get your body back!" It's as if you entered a new body and left a different body laying on the…

Got up from Skyrim? Impressive!

One thing I did notice, though, is that the mag quotes tended to suggest the woman would enjoy something whereas the rapists tended to say the woman was being unfair in some way. The rapists aren't even pretending that what the woman wants matters at all, while the mags do.

Nuns are at higher risk because they are female and don't ever get pregnant. Using hormonal birth control decreases the risks of certain cancers, as does being pregnant multiple times. This suggests that reducing how often you ovulate is key, either by taking the pill or by spending nine months at a time (plus a few…

Rick Parody for Prezident 2012

Silly mommies, trips aren't for kids!

Mine are called "Harlotte". They are the generic version of the brand "Concubina."

The fourth guy with the tinsel boa around him? I totally want him for Christmas. And he probably has an adorable British accent! They were all super cute and fun.

You obviously haven't heard folks like Glenn Beck rant about secular humanists. According to my in laws, they are as bad as atheists, possibly worse, since atheists at least don't "make up" religion just to make themselves feel better about themselves. Secular humanists regularly come up in the lists of why America…

Ok, all you twenty somethings. I am 36 and I was not too fearful of the whole future bikini wax thing with my daughter (6yo), until I started reading your comments about how now everyone expects y'all to do the whole brazillian totally bare down there waxing business. That is just not how it was for me when I was…

Even if you become a killer multi-tasker, you will be a bad mother for other reasons you have not yet considered. In fact, some of the reasons you will be a bad mother have not yet even been developed yet by the parenting science industrial complex, which exists to inspire guilt, fear, and self-loathing in you, so…

Ah yes! I was humming that too without even realizing it! The subconcious is quite ingenious.

I am very curious about how work stress plays into this result. The study compares "lifestyle" traits, but that seems to be the kind of food they eat and whether they exercise or smoke. It doesn't seem to track stress. I would think that the women without children would tend to have more advanced careers than the…

How does she look in a bathing suit and does she have a good chocolate chip cookie recipe?

I think we can look to Evolutionary Psychology for the answer to this one. Neanderthal women spent a lot of time in the caves with other Neanderthal women. They didn't have a lot to do, so they spent a lot of time sharing with each other. They tried drawings to get their stories across, but it is super hard to draw…

It is common in some cultures to hang the bedsheets outside the morning after the wedding night to prove the bride was a virgin. In fact, when there wasn't blood from the sex (as happens even to virgins), the bride often would fake it with blood from somewhere else (cut themselves or something like that) lest the…

"Of course, as the study authors remind us, they only looked at math and reading — they didn't test the kids' social skills, which could be improved by having a sibling at home from a young age."

So if Scott cheated on Kortney right before she got pregnant, how can we be sure Kortney is the actual mother?! hmm?