I don't think it's insecurity. It's just that it's generally more pleasurable to exist when you can subjugate a huge swath of your population and convince them that you're superior and they're inferior. You get free labor, an ego boost, and scapegoats for all social ills. (There is usually some conciliatory bullshit…

In my opinion she should get all the assistance possible. No one even has to know. Once that baby comes, every little bit will help. No shame in that.

Wow! Congratulations are definitely in order. Sounds great.

Here's my two cents: I wanted (and had) unmedicated births with a midwife in a hospital birth center. Wound up being optimal experiences, all three times.

Got to give you some tough love here, Leap: QUIT BEGGING.

I'm going to give you the tough love I gave another woman here: Quit begging.

according to blinds revealed at CDAN, she has a boyfriend and wants to get pregnant but is still married to Doug.

Some people really ARE looking for a fight. My mother is one of those people. It's awful. I'm pre-emptively sorry when we go anywhere together.

Sounds like you made the right decision for you. And I commend you for it, because I can think of fewer things more tragic than an unwilling parent.

Um, there is actually a conspiracy theory that Trig is not her child and that the name is derived from his genetic disorder (trisomy-g, Tri-g for short). But it's probably derived from "trigger", 'cause those people love guns.

Hey, those women shouldn't even be outside. What reason could they even have for leaving the kitchen/bedroom?

A large portion of my sympathy goes to the truck driver who will have to live his/her life knowing that s/he killed someone, through no fault of their own.

Does anyone else get giant loud pings from Giada's husband?

maybe like the Seinfeld episode: with a little shrug.

RUN, dude!

So these ads are supposed to make us want to purchase the product?

A hundred bucks I don't have says the person behind "Elena Ferrante" is a man.

That story made me laugh out loud.

Maybe the kid stabbed the neighbor's cat. Maybe the kid bullied a classmate. Maybe the kid pushed their brother down the stairs.

Because spanking is a punishment. It used to be a perfectly acceptable punishment and it is no longer. Taking toys away from children used to be a perfectly acceptable punishment and there are people here calling it "mean" and "cruel" and "humiliating". Same words used to describe spanking.