Thiel’s disconnect - gay and anti-gay - is deeply pathological. The mental gymnastics involved and self hatred are freakish. Plus he’s an a-hole.

Ummm Jezebel, is there *nothing else* you think you should mention when you write about Peter Thiel?

I know, I know, headlines aren’t written by the author, yada yada. But the majority of medical things you mention - preeclampsia, gestational diabetes, various forms of depression - are actually rare, like the side effects on medication commercials. Nobody is hiding them. In fact-

You’re absolutely full of it to think you can swap out Yeoh for another actor. How many people have the cultural cache to convincingly play both a worldwide movie star and martial arts genius? Then she has the talent to play the type of Asian immigrant woman who goes unseen. This also feels a lot like the stereotype…

I had my twins three weeks early (pretty good, actually, for twins!) and my milk was definitely not in at all. The hospital pediatrician came in to examine my daughter (my son was briefly in the NICU) and saw I was giving her formula. He FLIPPED OUT at me, told me I was lazy, that I was doing permanent damage to her,…

This 1000%. I was so unprepared for the possibility that breast feeding ... just might not work. My baby wasn’t getting anything from me, and was a fussy hungry mess losing ounces daily, only for lactation consultants to tell us to just keep trying. It was agonizing and hey, the milk never came. My breast feeding…

When I gave birth nearly 9 years ago, this was still *very much* happening. During my childbirth classes at a certified “baby-friendly” hospital, I learned that if you get an epidural, your baby won’t be able to nurse properly, you’ll tear horribly because you can’t feel that you’re not ready to push OR you’ll wind up…

Seriously I cried when I gave my daughter formula for the first time so she would sleep at night. My husband was like “what’s the big deal? everyone uses formula.” Ok.. yes, I needed a reality check. The lactation consultants were helpful, but I think it’s all the hype and propaganda that messes with you.

Yes, yes, a thousand times yes. I don’t know about your lactation consultants, but the ones we visited were cultish about breastfeeding to the point of telling my (now ex-) wife to just keep trying different creams and techniques and exercises while my infant daughter fell off the growth charts. We had to argue with…

the first post-birth shit is one of the most harrowing moments in a young mother’s life

ERIN!! Huge fan of your work on here back in the day and have followed you to Hysteria and listen every week. Tell Alyssa ‘hi’, LOL.

Some of the old Jezebel magic here.

What they don’t tell you is that the minute you come home with your baby it’s literally a race against time to get them feeding regularly. I remember sitting there watching our baby, who still hadn’t managed to breastfeed, thinking he’s basically dying before my eyes. Honestly, there is nothing wrong with formula in…

As someone who last gave birth 23 years ago, I am wondering if childbirth classes are still as biased towards “natural,” medication-free childbirth as they were back then. I still feel slightly bitter that for me the classes minimized the violence of childbirth in favor of a misty vision of softly moaning woman…

My advice to every women who had a first baby after I had my first baby was to ignore the lactation consultants, send the baby to the hospital nursery so you can sleep and recover, and do whatever doesn’t drive you crazy when you get home. Too many of those consultants are bullies, weaponizing health messages against…

That aspirin argument gets used for abortion as well (my kid needs parental permission to get an aspirin at school, but not to get an abortion!) and it drives me nuts. Beyond the allergy issue, there are also the unequal degrees of harm. If a kid can’t get an aspirin at school, she suffers a headache for a few hours.…

It’s not happening anywhere, it’s bullshit.  That’s the point.  Fuck these ghouls.  

Texas public schools are primarily funded by local property taxes.

“Republican lawmakers were never going to stop at overturning Roe v. Wade”

Mike Pence claims that at an Iowa school, students need parental permission to get an Aspirin but the school nurse gives out gender transition plans without telling anyone.