My 3yo is going through a phase where he adores corn on the cob because he can pretend he’s a chicken and peck it.

Yep, for lots of young kids it’s just a phase. They get more adventurous as they get older. Not worth the power struggles.

This is my rule too. I don’t force-feed my kid and if it’s something he’s never tried before I offer it alongside something he likes (So, eggplant parmesan with a side of spaghetti with sauce). I don’t believe in power struggles with toddlers or sending my kid to bed hungry because I made curry and you’ll either eat…

AMEN. Kids are people, they deserve bodily autonomy (within reason, of course). The whole “you’re a kid so do what I say and fuck you if you dare question me” is counterproductive and bullying behavior. Give the kid some reasonable choices and respect their preferences ffs.

As someone who covered state government for a couple years, I honestly think you’re giving them too much credit. They don’t think about what “the right thing to do” is. They swallow the party like - people are better off with less government, abortion kills babies - and then use that as the measuring stick. Doing the…

It’s not like that in the US. Sex ed is not taught for an hour five days a week, and it is not comprehensive about the pros and cons of birth control options. Test questions are “why should you wait to have sex?”

The Republicans claim to be fiscally conservative, unlike those evil Democrats who just want to spend, spend, spend. Except for reducing the Medicaid costs in Colorado by providing birth control. In that case, spend, spend, spend all the money you want!

I don’t think teenagers should be given medication (or long term contraception) without understanding the pros and cons. When I was on benzodiazepines, I always got a long conversation from my pharmacist and my doctor when I was switching between the classes. This shouldn’t be any different. Without a good sex…

DUDE. I have been saying for YEARS that this needs to be the Democrat/liberal message. This outdated idea that you vote Republican for economics and Democrat for social programs needs to be revamped. I’ve heard from a lot of swing voters that they’ve been voting Republican for economic reasons even if they don’t like…

What’s really infuriating is that many so-called fiscal conservatives will argue that the idea of spending money on social programs to save money long term is BS, but have no problem pushing for business tax cuts because it will “create jobs” and bring in more revenue.

The math is, if they vote to spend the money they face a challenge from an opponent who will point out that they VOTED TO SPEND MONEY HOLY FUCK instead of cutting budgets like a good fiscal conservative does.

I had to go to four doctors until I was able to get an IUD. FOUR. Doctors kept pushing the NuvaRing on me, even when I told them I didn’t like it. By the time I went to Planned Parenthood for the IUD, I was already fucking pregnant. And now I have a toddler (whom I love very much, BUT STILL).

happy in my just-married glow

As soon as people started criticizing him, however, he showed his true colors, responding to people’s comments with phrases such as “get back in your trailer” and stating that his critics lead “boring” and “miserable” lives.

Yeah, there’s one person in this story who has pretty much proven himself to be a gigantic asshole. And yet here we have people saying “well yeah but BRIDEZILLAS NEED TO BE PUT IN THEIR PLACE. If she was just HORRIBLE than maybe she deserved it!” Even though we have zero evidence of her behaving badly and heaps and…

Yeah, but how often do we see women labeled as “bridezilla” and “bitch” for simply being assertive? Given the rest of this guy’s behavior I don’t see why anyone is giving him the benefit of the doubt.

Even if an abortion is more traumatic than the procedure to transfer a fetus to an artificial womb, it still comes down to the woman’s decision. If she’d rather subject her body to the abortion than to the other procedure, that’s her choice. That’s what bodily autonomy means. You can’t force someone to undergo a…

They get two chances. The first chance is to NOT talk to me because I’m reading, I’m not looking around, I’m clearly sending off “leave me alone” vibes. So by ignoring those signs and trying to strike up a conversation with me, they’ve already ignored my signals once. Then I give them a noncommittal,…

Or how it’s actually really rare for a woman to be physically hurt/killed by a man while it’s much more common for a man to be ridiculed by a woman, so women shouldn’t feel so threatened because things really aren’t that bad.

Oh Lord. This reminds me of when my mother came to visit me and my husband. We were talking about food and she said “your dad and I are foodies, we love trying new restaurants.”