Yes, I feel like most of what happens in childbirth is talked about constantly, including in sitcoms. What I rarely see discussed is post-delivery PTSD (PTSD may be a too strong description; a trauma response, at any rate). 

This comment is slightly judgemental, but I get the point. You don’t even have to take a class, you can read a book about the birthing process and their are plenty of websites.

I found a new boyfriend soon after leaving my husband. He was about 8 years younger than me. We were all activists, and as is typical in the activist world, there were a lot of internecine power struggles over who was the most committed to liberation, and who was doing activism right. A lot of oneupmanship. My…

I mean, they are both gorgeous, insanely skinny young things (though I stand firmly in the Naomi Campbell camp of “no comment” as regards their modeling prowess), but Kendall’s boobs look lopsided and saggy and oddly placed on her chest due to how the fabric drapes, and Bella’s are downright nuclear in their buoyancy…

That thing where your boyfriend is covered in ugly tattoos, and grows a disgusting mustache right after he proposes.

Listen! In DC all they push is breast feeding, which is fine for women who genuinely want to, but as expensive as this area is...I knew I had to go back to work. It’s insane to think that I was supposed to feel a way towards the pump, it was helpful! I ended going formula only after a month because breastfeeding is…

It’s a test tube here, a beaker there, and then they’re applying for grants.

One should hope they are.

Hey, Don, I bet you $100 that you won’t drink water from Flint, Michigan.

Does he have even the remotest idea that the verdant surface of that water may represent eutrophication caused by fertilizer runoff from the industrial farming his family seems to endorse without understanding?

This was the sort of thing that kind of ruined When Harry Met Sally for me. Those stories of people reconnecting after years that punctuated the movie were so cute — until my dad’s high school girlfriend reconnected with him after her husband died. The problem? My parents were still married. Now they weren’t really…

My theory, based on my father and one friend of mine: They think it will make them less “manly.” My dad wouldn’t even let Mom get our male cat neutered when I was a kid. Somehow his own manhood was tied up in the cat’s ability to sow his seed. >:(

Oh wow we really did post basically the same thing! I hope you soon find the courage to wear them outside the house! It’s so cliche, but damn we are seriously our own harshest critics. I would never judge someone else’s legs as harshly as I do my own, and if someone *did* judge me as much as I do, I’d be like WOW…

I mean, if you’re going to have gloopy sex, just pop the sheets in the washer afterwards. It’s not like your mattress doesn’t already look like a Civil War bandage.

*scribbles notes furiously*

Yeah so I saw this guy once in undergrad. He made the exact comment about “tightness” to me and acted like my vagina suctioned his fingers. Shudder.

thank god i just graduated and no longer have to give this hell school any money!! some highlights i heard about tyndall:

Hi Lil Tay,

It infuriates me how the old Republican dudes in the Senate know nothing about babies/motherhood while at the same time obsess over restricting abortion rights, the availability of birth control, affordable healthcare for babies, etc. From an article about passing the law to allow Duckworth’s baby on the floor:

Sure does. But funnily enough, none of those European problems involve watching our children across the continent get murdered in their own schools every other day and having the callous temerity to point the finger at anything but our failures as a society.