Former clinic worker here. Your reasons are as good as any reason, and no one can imagine the number of stories and reasons that women and partners share every day in clinics across the country. More than 60% of women who seek abortions already have children, so you are in the majority. It is a shame that the…
I made the mistake of reading the comments section on one of the TMZ articles about Hiddleswift, and HOLY MOLY are people sexist as fuck. All of a sudden she’s a whore/slut/bitch, when before she was a marriage-crazed spinster-to-be. Whaaaaaaaaat. The. Fuck.
Loving this interview and reading the whole thing — not done yet, but want to say that our beloved Dr. Tiller was killed in 2009, not 2013. Thank you!
May she get the help she needs to start the healing process.
Ding ding ding. And the first place budget cuts occur are social services set up to help people in need. I live in a state where huge cuts just happened, and our local crisis day care (where parents in crisis can bring a kid, instead of leaving them at home or, you know, harming them) was eliminated. So these…
My sister and her 2 kids live in South Carolina and it is GRIM for them. She makes just enough to scrape by to keep them alive, but not enough to move somewhere and start a new job hunt. She’s in a constant cycle of having shitty cars that break down because she can never save up enough to buy a quality car, or take…
You left out the brilliant closer:
I’ve been commenting regularly for 2 years, how do I get out of the grays?
My sister purposely told people she was having a boy, and had a girl and she’s the most bad-ass genderless baby on the planet.
Great! If they can’t afford the abortion and related travel costs, that means they’ll stay pregnant! If they stay pregnant they’ll have a baby they can’t afford and then we’ll get to chastise them for having a baby they can’t afford and use them as political fodder for why welfare should be cut! WIN-WIN-WIN
As a woman who has been in LTR with at least 2 men with very disordered body image issues, I’m glad you are participating in this discussion. I don’t think you’re trying to compare or raise one gender over the other. As a feminist who believes that feminism helps all people, the body image stuff is huge for everyone…
I didn’t have one problem with my body, or even know that was a thing because I was an adolescent pre-internet, until my mom got me a subscription to YM when I was in 6th grade (11 y/o). I remember the cover like it was yesterday, and the “tips” lists, and the clothes, and all the STUFF one had to buy to be cool and…
Thank you for the work that you do. I have a family member who hoards, and she let us rehome her handful of pets before it got out of control. She still hoards stuff and her house is falling apart, but for whatever reason she recognized the animals needed to go.
Re: Keeping them out of situations — THANK YOU, as it bears repeating often. There was a doggie-at-the-park event in my city this weekend, as a fundraiser for our local shelter. The point was to bring your dog(s) IF they can handle being around hundreds of other people and dogs. I absolutely cannot believe how many…
I just watched the film The Mask You Live In last night on Netflix. It gives a fantastic, comprehensive picture of how we got to this phase of “masculinity” in American culture.
I’m a woman, but the first time I saw my dad cry, ever, was at his mother’s funeral when I was 19. I’d not been a crier as a youth, and I realized in that moment it was because I looked up to my dad so much, and he was a stoic, almost emotionless (besides anger) person. This helped me see that all the…
Right, but both of those scenarios require the people to identify themselves, which defeats the purpose of the anonymity-granting box. Some people may not be empowered to report missing persons, especially if they are already engaged in illegal behavior like drug/alcohol use, prositution, etc., or have a mental…
And 50 bananas, at about 100 calories a pop, means a 5000 calorie-a-day diet, which is a lot even for a constantly-training athlete! So, I don’t believe her.
The linked provided also includes hypotheses that those who are likely to abandon babies won’t use the baby boxes and similar contraptions. Also, these boxes don’t allow for any real assessment of WHY women abandon their babies. Not to mention, what happens if a partner steals a baby, leaves it in a baby box, and then…