The Yahoo message boards are where reason and intellect go to die.

😬😬😬😬 omg the mucus plug thing

How is babby formed?

You know what always weirds me out? When a guy’s child is born and he says “I became a father today!” Like, dude, your bebe was popped out a vag after months of growth and development, not conjured from a lifeless form. Sure, it’s a huge milestone and everything is suddenly changing experience-wise (on all sides) and…

I didn’t come out of a vagina. The doctors cut a hole in my mom’s uterus and dragged me out (C-Sections are hardcore when you think about it).

The 9 year olds Googling “where do babies come from” are going to be so confused.

I spent hours researching women leaders and pioneers and disruptors and finding all the stories I could about those women to correlate to the failures and fears they wrote down, and then I hand wrote those stories under their statements in a book.

I think about this everyday. On the outside I am a fairly successful attorney/writer working in nonprofit in DC. I volunteer, I went to law school as a second career late in life. I travel extensively and I’m a photographer who takes pretty good wildlife shots.

Many of the most successful, self-possessed, vibrant, independent women in my life struggle mightily with depression and anxiety, and go between wanting to put it all out there — listen, if I can live through this, so can you — and wanting to keep it all hidden, because showing weakness will ruin her capacity to be a…

Saffo said she and Andy Spade tried to help Kate check into treatment centers, but that she never went because “the ‘image’ of her brand (happy-go-lucky Kate Spade) was more important for her to keep up. She was definitely worried about what people would say if they found out.”

Exactly, I was already feeling bad and trying to get support from a close friend, and instead she made me feel even worse. Eventually I had to stop spending much time with her because I really needed to focus on getting better, and knew that I couldn’t do that around her.

Which actually ends up making you feel WORSE because, in addition to the other toxic thought processes that you have to deal with, you now have to contend with feeling like you’re overly sensitive, a burden, and self-absorbed for feeling what you feel. And these thoughts in particular are especially hard to…

One of my supposed best friends (sort of an ex-BF now, we just haven’t talked in a while because of this), when I was going through a really tough period a few years ago, would also respond with some line that basically amounted to “well at least you don’t have student loans” or “your family has more money than mine…

This.

I guess it’s not so much money and fame, as it is she presumably had every resource available to her. With that kind of money you can get all the treatment you want. With that fame, you can find so many friends who could offer support. If she couldn’t defeat her demons, with all the tools she had to do the fight, how…

I took a mental health day off of work today because I have been so stressed and depressed. I haven’t been suicidal in several years (shout out to pharmaceuticals and therapy!) and I’m not now, but definitely feeling the overwhelming weight of things. Thankfully I have a job where I have such the luxury.

It sounds like all her friends were teenagers too so I know I should give some leeway here, but I can’t help wondering what her male friends’ thoughts were when they were told “Oh....he doesn’t want any guys coming in the van, only the girls”. Like, this feels like it could be a teachable moment about how being a good…

I can’t even be cynical about this. I just feel sad. She looks so sad in those videos where her brother is coaching her. I want to cry. (To be fair, I always want to cry on Sunday nights.)

is lil tay short for elizabeth taylor the same way bobby flay is short for robert flavor and elon musk is elongated muskrat?

Any time someone mentions these family ties, I like to picture Nicole Richie and Cameron Diaz trading goss and getting boozy with each other in the kitchen at holiday functions.