Our birth rate is just fine. In fact, without immigration we would be shrinking at a potentially unsustainable rate. (Shrinking the population too quickly can cause some serious problems with taking care of the elderly.)

So... he got mad at HER because HE put vodka in the bottle? Alrighty, then...

The complaint said he continued to yell at her, threw a bottle at her, pushed her and grabbed her by the neck so hard she was unable to speak.

Poor Mother and baby. Seriously, that first month of newborn care is hard work between newborn and recovery and to have an asshat like that around UGH.

The complaint said he continued to yell at her, threw a bottle at her, pushed her and grabbed her by the neck so hard she was unable to speak.

Girl, get your baby and run like hell.

Oh Jesus Christ :(

The hymen is the most pernicious myth that “traditional” societies have perpetrated against women. Time for it to go the way of foot binding. Depressing read.

IT’S COITANS FOR YA, ROCKY! COITANS!

Oh oh oh! I love this game.

Indoor plumbing! Everyone forgets how incredible indoor plumbing is.

Totally agree. Plus, this lady’s whole thing seems like a giant conflating of “loving the time period” and “loving the aesthetic of a time period”. The latter, I totally understand because fashion / styles from previous eras are fascinating, and also a lot of times just strike your fancy. But thank god I get to enjoy…

Buying books in an air-conditioned store with your own paycheck is the best. And if there's a Sephora nearby, even better.

I fucking loved that series, especially the Puritan one. It was amazing to see how contented the wealthy family was. Meanwhile the folk cast as “servants” were all “to hell with this,” quitting in droves. Everyone thinks they were Queen Elizabeth I, no one thinks they were the servant cleaning the queen’s chamber pot,…

By what wizardry does she use the internet?

And of course she means “wealthy Victorian.” There weren’t even weekends, much less OSHA laws in this amorphous, nostalgic, white-washed period she has concocted. Get back to work in the cotton mill, you mouthy strumpet!

I know it’s not the Victorian Era but I finally watched “The Magdalene Sisters” which is a film based on a true story of Irish women being interred at a wash house. One woman was there for having a baby out of wedlock, another for getting raped by her cousin, and the last for flirting. Flirting. Highly recommend…