I’m so sorry. My second flu season baby turns 1 today. I swore after the first one it was too much stress to give birth with that kind of germ fear, but that’s what happened anyway.

My arm was definitely sore, but totally worth it to protect the babes. My niece was almost 8 weeks premature, so I’d have gotten 100 of them if that’s what it had taken.

Word. That shot f’ing HURTS though! I’ve had it twice in two years (for the fetuses) and it’s just the absolute worst. My whole family was pissed I made them all get it last time.

I did the same to my bra-fitter. Fink.

As someone about to give birth to her second winter-month baby, please get the flu shot for the sake of babies and the immuno-compromised who can’t! Pretty please!

Amen to that. Where I live in Santa Barbara county, eight senior citizens have been killed by the flu this season. It’s been a horrible year.

Also, please remember that it isn’t all about you. Even if you’re healthy as a horse and never get sick, you could still be getting it and while fighting it off, passing it along to an infant, an elderly person, or someone who is immunosuppressed/ immunocompromised. Literally any percent reduction in the chance of you…

Yo this thing is no joke, I am on day seven. My skin hurts.

Address the whole statement, not the fragment you pulled out of context. “Women are just beginning to process the collective grief we’ve suffered, so men’s feelings aren’t our top concern right now” =/= “women don’t know how we’ve been treated.” Not even close. If you continue pretending they mean the same thing to…

when women carve out a little slice of the internet it would be nice if men didn’t take up quite so much space on it.

And, to be clear, I am so very happy that people are calling those dudes out. I have complained about them before, and I dislike the male domination of the threads (especially when all 3 of the top offenders have absolutely shown their ass on multiple occasions). And I do see the enabling and the fan clubbing going…

What happened to him, did he die?

I know you’re being funny (and I absolutely know what you’re talking about) but I totally used to think a lot of the problematic male commenters were just women with internalized misogyny issues. I don’t claim to be a smart person :)

Don’t forget the “ally scarcity mentality” these shills always promote. “Ladies, shh! If we aren’t nice to these five weird dudes who constantly spam the Jez comment section, we’ll have no male allies left!” Meanwhile I’m thinking about my husband, dad, brothers, uncles, friends and other men who are my actual…

I was about to make a post about this but then saw someone had shared Marx and Sparks comment to our lovely little backwater so I calmed down.

Hmm, let me guess. *Scrolls down*

*misreads a clear statement by pulling one word out of context in order to take offense and embark on unrelated tangent*

Nope. I don’t care. Polanski has victimized other people. There are millions of people who DON’T rape young girls after they have gone through traumatic experiences. NO SYMPATHY AT ALL.

I have the youtube link to polanski’s standing ovation bookmarked for whenever some bro claims the very accusation of rape is life/career ruining

Years ago someone I know delivered pizza to Franco’s hotel, and he answered the door nearly nude and sexually propositioned her. She also said he had terrible body odor. She played it off as a joke at the time but said it deeply unsettled her. He’s always been a total creep.