All I have to say is I wanted to pummel that Chef Boyardee lookin Dyatlov every time he was on screen. I guess that’s called good acting.

I mean, there’s one other problem with bringing men into the picture more: it will undermine our society’s message that womanhood and motherhood are synonymous, and that women are only as important as their ability to make babies.

I get the author’s frustration, in that a number of men kinda assume they don’t really need to do much until the baby is out, or even until the baby is walking.

Representation matters. All too often men are shown to be clueless as fathers and we all chuckle along, or they are demeaned for seeming maternal and therefore unmanly, when all they are doing is actually parenting. Or they’re entirely absent or used as a sort of boogeyman for when a child has to be reprimanded. If…

Any little step counts and frankly there’s nothing wrong with making people feel welcome. Men in the United States are generally not expected to take much interest in raising their children beyond providing for the family and being the “fun” parent. 

I 100% agree with you about the prison system, and I like that you pointed this out. It’s also really annoying and classist that they’re talking about scrubbing toilets as if cleaning - a thing most people have to do - is a nightmare. Having to clean the place you live rather than paying someone else to do it isn’t a…

Panache too. It was a wonderful day I realized I can get cute and sexy bras in my size, I just had to turn to the internet.

“I’ve had concerns about the Me Too movement from the beginning, about getting to this place where you can’t have normal interactions with each other,”

It’s not about “apologiz[ing] in the way that people seem to want” - it’s about apologizing in a way that indicates he understands why what he did was wrong. If you don’t know what you did wrong, you’re going to repeat the behavior. Otherwise you’re just a robot - “IF female, THEN do not hug.”

Possibly because in 2019 I want a presidental candidate who understands exactly why it’s not ok to sniff a woman’s hair. That’s a really, really low bar to clear. Why would I vote for him when I can vote for Senator Warren, who paid attention the day in Kindergarten when they told her to keep her hands to herself?

You want to choose another way of making fun of straight men? 

Before everyone starts in on the herpes jokes, just remember that a lot of people have either simplex 1 or 2, and it’s a relatively benign condition and there should be no stigma attached to it because that prevents discussion both as a community and culture and with partners. 

It would have been nice if Jenna Bush acknowledged that ectopic pregnancies have to be terminated which is also called an abortion, and that abortion probably saved her from bleeding to death because it kept her Fallopian tube from rupturing. She had an opportunity to educate the Faux News crowd with real life real…

The cognitive dissonance is real. My niece’s fetus became non-viable. Her state has some pretty restrictive laws.

But if I didn’t get it, then I don’t want anyone else to get it.  [paraphrasing selfish assholes]

Yes and then they seek prenatal care and are tested and monitored. Neonatal herpes is rare. Also not becoming a parent, which is what I plan to do, isn’t all that unusual either among millennials. Newsflash.

EVERYONE HAS IT THOUGH. 

FFS. Pooling risk is how insurance works. People who don’t need the service pay for the people who do. That’s how every kind of insurance works, the catch being that you don’t know which of those categories you’re in until it’s too late. By the same token as your argument, why should homebodys who like to fuck pay for…

Why should my insurance cover whatever old man disease you have? I’m 32 and healthy. I don’t need to get medical treatment or take any pills. I mean. Why should I pay for your statins or whatever. You should exercise more or have been born with better genetics. 

Once I called my previous insurance provider to make sure an annual STI test was covered as a part of my yearly gyno check up - it was not! I was annoyed, and the woman on the other end of the line coughed delicately and said that “in [her] day, [she] hadn’t *needed* one”. Fuck her and fuck United health insurance.