I wanted to thank you for your incredibly thoughtful and heartfelt response and for being willing to speak about your experiences here.

Yes.

Whichever the one who is standing next to Kim has a serious Mortia vibe going on.

As many times as I've seen that super fancy Kardashian family portrait, today's the first time I noticed the Adam's Family vibe it's giving off. I think it's everyone's facial expressions.

"I thought Jezebel was against the stereotype of all women fighting eachother over clothes and/or men, so i am desperately trying to make sense of that last bit in the post. "

No, you can't make the argument that a (born, outside the womb) baby is a parasite. A baby is dependent on an outside force for it's care (it does not have to be it's biological mother) but is not phisologically connected to or thriving off of another person's body. A male armed with a bottle and a supply of formula…

I think your framing of the debate says a lot about why there hasn't been a 'rational, scientific basis' discussion of when life begins. When you classify people who need a third trimester abortion as "left wingnuts' without understanding that the vast majority of late term abortions are done because the fetus is not…

And that's just from Next Generation! Emma's mother, Spike, got pregnant at 13 with her first sexual experience, and then the baby daddy jumped off a bridge! One of the twins got pregnant and had an abortion.

Re: Degrassi We definitely see Dylan in bed with another boy, because Marco walks in on it.

I have a hard time believing that Degrassi didn't have a gay-teenaged sex episode, even though I can't name one off the top of my head. There's certainly plenty of gay relationships to choose from — Marco, Paige and her dark-haired girlfriend whose name escapes me.. Uh, and the rest. (It's been a while since I…

I did not find Brittany's comment at all funny either, and my husband and I were way more horrified over that one throw-away line than anything else that happened in the entire episode.

Not entirely true — yes, it's season 6 when we first see them in bed together, but it's during the musical episode "Once More With Feeling" when we see Willow going down on Tara. I mean, it's pretty obvious that's what's going on in that scene, especially with the clever way the scene breaks away when Tara is singing…

Personally, this was my favorite moment.

I mentioned this in my response to Nic10, but I should have added 'and a racist' in my response, but I thought that was sort of understood. That's my own fault for not being clear. My bigger point was not to excuse her personal beliefs, but to point out her motivations were not as cut and dried as 'I don't like…

First of all, I'm not desperate to downplay her racism or her involvement in the eugenics movement, which is why I bolded the part where I agreed she was a eugenicist. I should have also added 'and a racist', but I thought that was apparent from the eugenicist thing.

Unfortunately, what happened to your great grand-mother wouldn't have been a rarity. Sterilizing women committed to sanitariums and asylums was incredibly common. I'm so sorry for your family.

Yeah, when it first came up, I thought the idea was to make it available to poor women at no cost to help with family planning, and I was, 'Oh, what a great idea!' But that wasn't it at all.

"Again, he's not gay or a love-interest (Buffy/Giles ‘shippers forgive me), but Giles is Buffy's Watcher and main source of guidance. Her mother Joyce is loving, but either oblivious to the dangers Buffy faces or simply not there. Potential female mentoring figures –- her psychology professor Maggie Walsh and…

I always have to stop and remember that this isn't common knowledge and that my educational and work background is different from a lot other people. I forget that we just don't talk about ugly parts of our history in the way that we should.

That is not entirely correct. The whole 'Margaret Sanger hated black people' meme was started by pro-life activists to discredit her, and through her, Planned Parenthood. She was a eugenicist, as were many people of the time, but 'feeble mindedness' was not her reasoning: