@LucilleBluth: Agreed. Sounds like whoever tweeted that is desperate for fame and name-dropping. "Look at meeee! I go to a celebrity doctor!!!"

Anecdotes don't count as data.

@RayBradbury's_ElephantMonastery: I'd also add the high amount of abortions (a consequence of low contraceptive prevalence) and unnecessary c-sections to the list. They both pose a risk to a woman's reproductive health.

@FreudianNipSlip: Excellent point. Thank you.

This is a super old joke, right? I remember a joke about a girl who asked her mom for the pill and only got a pea with instructions to hold it between her knees. I heard this more than ten years ago.

@bowleserised: Could you please tell what piercing she had so that I could have it too?

@wtfox?!: Thanks for expanding my vocabulary. The person who made that card doesn't know anything about sex. Just bend over!

This is good news.

@RayBradbury's_ElephantMonastery: Well, countries with high contraceptive prevalence have lower maternal mortality rates. This made me think about sex ed in the US and how informed Americans on average are about contraceptives... Probably not very?

@kookla: Yeah, I was surprised by how good she looked.

@Breathe: Nah, the cat is just wrinkly.

@marks-alot: I'm coming a bit late to the discussion, but still: It really does make a difference. I live in a country that has had a woman president for about ten years now, and she gets letters from little boys asking if it's possible for a boy to be president as well.

@SarsDoesn'tSave: She can't possibly be very intelligent. That explanation is ridiculous.

This post reminded me of two of my girlfriends making a deal about losing their virginities before they turn 14. As far as I remember at least one of them succeeded.

@Huey Freeman: Great. Now I'm crying.

@somnambulent: Wow, very informative. Thanks for sharing!

So taking less than two weeks of paternity leave makes you a progressive hero? Good for him, but... meh. I'm not impressed. Maybe I'm just too Scandinavian.

This Vladislav guy: looks like this, buys you a palazzo, has Russian accent. That's what I call a catch.

I've been thinking about the same thing as well. I'm considering an academic career, but my university has no woman professors in my field even though most students and researchers have always been women. It's a small country and this is the only university that does research on my field, so I can't really pick…

This reminds me of the feminist group Bara Bröst (Bare Breasts) in Malmö, Sweden. They were opposing the double standard of only women's breasts being sexualized, and thanks to them it's nowadays allowed for women, too, to go topless in swimming halls in the city of Malmö. (But I heard most women still wear a top,…