Well, it’s a good thing reality is limited to things posted in this commenting thread. How about this:

How much time have you spent paying attention to people struggling with infertility? I mean, it would be hard to find any subgroup of people in this country a majority of whom would be happy for a single, disabled, living-in-poverty, 40-something woman announcing her wanted pregnancy. But an overwhelming majority of…

I think you’re missing my point. It’s not about women’s individual responses to a stupid prank, we’re all entitled to our feelings. I’m bothered by the norm that you are pushing — where you’ve prioritized the feelings of a small and relatively privileged group of people such that a prank that actually has nothing to…

There are many things I truly want but can’t have because my body doesn’t cooperate. “Desperately” wanting children is a luxury item I could never afford. As an involuntary member of the “suck it up and deal” class, walking on eggshells around women who have the material means to “desperately” pursue pregnancy does…

I have a disability which helps me hit “Loser” marks in many aspects of adulthood, including never having/raising the children I always assumed I’d have. Does that fall under “whatever reason”? Because I don’t feel slapped in the face by stupid jokes about being pregnant, and I’m slightly disturbed knowing that many…

I agree it’s a very dumb joke, but why is it cruel?

I think the fact that registries only “work” as providing a list of sanctioned targets for bullying is enough to oppose them in totality. At best, they’re security theater that does nothing to make communities safer. Most child molesters aren’t hanging out in parks, eyeing the children of strangers. Most rapists…

Not huge.

As a SNAP beneficiary, I’d appreciate it if articles like this included more details about the proposed rule changes that would result in 8 million people being dropped from the program. Not to distract you from the satisfying business of snarking at Congressional Dems, but I suspect you have more readers on food…

I understood it as — delete that last paragraph, ffs.

It requires more skill now than it did ten years ago. I think it was around 2012 when Google changed the algorithm to push search results in the direction of commonly asked questions. Half the time I go looking for something obscure these days, Google crosses out the search terms that should narrow the results! (That…

There’s plenty of gay men who crave that “whole normalcy dynamic” and find it a barrier to self-acceptance and coming out. I haven’t read the book or seen the movie, but I’ve listened to enough gay men to know that the struggle Rich describes isn’t a figment of the straight female imagination or a rhetorical technique…

Adults employing children have a duty of care and even taking the child’s own statement into account, they crossed a line. It’s actually shocking almost no one on here gets that.

“Problematic” is too gentle a term for Rich’s work. He’s an illustration of what happens when you give a narcissist a middle class salary to write about whatever interests him, and presumably provide minimal editorial guidance or correction.

I remain convinced that something in the union contract/sales contract required Univision to offer Rich a spot and they assigned him to Jezebel hoping he’d quit. Since that didn’t work, I assume they’ve stolen his stapler and moved his desk to the basement.

I feel like Jezeroot is taking the GM tradition of recursive posts (500 Days of Kristen/The Cardinals Lost Their __th Game) to the next level — recursive absence.

In my neck of the woods, trailer parks were white-flight for low income people.

The best thing I got out of my aborted grad program was my favorite professor reassuring me that I was both smart enough to stay and wise enough to go.

Is there a single person who’s read Rich’s work here and believes he feels obligated to his female audience in any way whatsoever?

I don’t think they’ll ever beat coverage of pubic hair dye kit.