"What I have learned today is that there are people on Twitter who think in absolutist terms, to an extent I wouldn't have believed possible."

Dafuqisthis is clearly telling you that your point is a bit of a non sequitur, which makes it invalid here. Elsewhere, your point would have been totally valid; here it is nonsense. It's like if someone told me that 2+2=4, and I told them that maybe if their hair was thicker they would truly understand how much of a…

Bro, you are not good at being a thinking man, so I suggest you stop trying. For reasons of efficiency and economic output, a modern society has a tremendous interest in both employing females AND allowing them to have children if and when they want to. Think about it: a society where both males and females are…

You're right - it's articles like this that drive wedges between men and women. The ladies here are just all getting ginned up over nothing - it's not like hiring discrimination and miserable maternity leave policies aren't endemic in American businesses. If we just didn't mention it, everything would be hunky-dory.

wow, thanks so much for the hearty mansplanation of maternity leave! You're right, taking time off to shove a watermelon out of my cooter IS just a delicious, wonderful choice I'm making - just like a man wanting to backpack through Europe! In fact, I really planned badly by not having my husband do the whole…

That is completely ridiculous, because maternity leave is a special situation that requires special consideration. First of all, maternity leave is a medical necessity. It is not a woman making a choice to leave her company for no reason - birth is really difficult, and comes with many physical and chemical…

I absolutely can't believe that you are comparing maternity leave with a man wanting to take a backpacking trip.

And yet, somehow, pretty much every other industrialized nation in the world manages it.

It made me uncomfortable because I pictured about 4 of my friends/family seeing this and saying "SEE! They just want to murder as many babies as they can! They even have a song about how much they love abortion! They want to abort as many babies as they can!"

Or she's decided to not have sex and post this online because he's the kind of asshat to passive aggressively make a list of her excuses & email it to her as she's leaving for a trip.

Or maybe she's just fucking tired from cooking and cleaning for him, while holding down a job that got stressful for her, and she's dealing with some personal body issues that probably required some sensitivity and understanding from her husband? Oh, and they apparently just bought a goddamn house?

Or, as she says in the post, she's working a lot and very tired. And "I'm exhausted," "You're too drunk", and "I'm a little tender from yesterday" are damn valid excuses. The type of person who passive-aggressively makes excel charts and flings it in someone's face before they go on a business trip is probably not the…

Or maybe her husband is a jerk and she doesn't want to have sex with him when he's acting like an asshole.

Yea, I know it's a broad generalization. And kudos to you on all the marital sex. I'm just saying that not so frequent sex doesn't equate to "she's fucking someone else." Often it equates to we're both busy and stressed with work/house/kids/life. Basically every married male I know over 30 doesn't have sex nearly…

Did really just call it a terrorist state you are vile racist asshole. And fuck you for putting innocent people in quotations, the 5 month old baby who died today was innocent and so are many others who live there. Israel is violating the right for Palestine to exist and it is not a mythical land seeing as it is…

Ugh, I cannot stand him, and I didn't even know about half the awful things people are saying about him here! The main thing that gets me about him is that he is FUCKING ANTI-VAXXER but constantly talks about how Republicans are stupid for not believing in science with regard to global warming. Plus he is one of…

Even if the rapist isn't named? (I believe you, I'm just curious.)

Look! Realistic but tiny stomach rolls on an iconic picture...and nobody at the time thought they were shocking or obscene. Stomach rolls: (almost) everyone has them—even the super thin!

Yeah, I agree. Kate Moss is a master of looking both nonchalant and animated at the same time. She never looks bored, just casually disinterested in your mundane life. Lottie looks like she's about to fall asleep.

Yes they are. I was driving down the street the other day listening to "Steal My Sunshine", and I saw a girl walking down the street in overalls and Doc Martins. I had to make sure I was still in the right millennium.