What the hell is wrong with you? You might as well tell anyone without immense financial reserves not to procreate because poverty is bad for kids! Breast perkiness is not what any of the moms I know considered when those who chose formula chose it. Several opted for formula so that both parents could equally care for…

I'm right there with you on the psychologically necessary C-section! People who judge us can suck it!

Rarely has someone so rabid about pharmacolgy sounded so in need of a chill pill. And perhaps a nice, long, natural, ancestral nap.

As I said:

Thank you for saving me from having to go on a similar rant. People who think the needs of the mother don’t/shouldn’t matter can go fuck themselves.

21 days ago, I would have agreed with you, at 41 weeks, 4 days pregnant. Then I went into labor, and unfortunately, despite my midwife and doula being pretty great at what they do, my baby contorted into a weird shape and literally got lodged in my pelvis. Without a wonderful anesthesiologist and obstetrician…

Millennials.

Women have been giving birth since the beginning of human existence, sure, but they also died frequently while doing so. Are you seriously suggesting that giving birth is not incredibly dangerous without medical intervention? 99% of maternal deaths are in poor, developing countries.

I’m a woman in a science PhD program, and I have to say I can’t completely disagree with Huang’s advice, but only because of the ridiculously lopsided advisor/advisee power dynamic that exists in academic science: the best policy is always to not piss off your advisor. I wish that would change. Bad advisors can cause…

I agree that the page should not have been taken down, especially without any statement addressing why it was taken down and the backlash over Huang’s advice. However, although Huang’s doubtlessly had to deal with sexism in a far less accepting environment, I feel that Huamg should have addressed what the researcher…

Note: I am not a woman and I don’t work in science, so feel free to make of this what you will.

I’m still not sure what I think, but I really appreciate this well-thought-out and carefully articulated response.

Great points. What Kipnis seems to endorse is this corruption of sex-positivity that takes absolutely no one else into account except the two players at one discrete point in time.*

thank you. it WAS a boneheaded essay.

Yeah, it’s absurd. “Are you seriously telling me, I wanted to ask the Title IX Committee, that the same term now encompasses both someone allegedly groped by a professor and my great-aunt, who lived through the Nazi death camps?” Yes, because of what the word means. People can survive different things.

I think you’re reacting pretty fairly. I was lied to about the alcohol content of a beverage, and had too much and passed out. Then the man who raped me did just that. He had planned that. He knew I had said that I only wanted to have X drinks because I had taken medicine for menstrual cramps, and that I didn’t want…

How? She basically waxes nostalgically about student/teacher relationships:

I’m only a recent feminist (omg whyyyyyyyyy did I refuse the label for so long??? ugh I hate how stoopid I was), but I’m sticking with it. Any movement that grows in popularity will have to deal with its outliers, but I’m not going to let some punks define what it means.

Feminism has done this to itself before though. I feel like, as students, we get this idea of feminism and we are raised in it and we understand it a certain way, and we don’t get the personal history of feminism. There were fall outs in the 1970s and 1980s between feminists.

Sex, like religion, is opt-in instead of opt-out. Anything that violates that is not okay. Simple. Except for contrarian assholes like our friend here.