I sincerely hope that the survivor has access to whatever supports she needs in her community. Also here is the number for RAINN, 800-656-4673 if you need help as well.

My home births were, by far, healthier and more calm than any hospital could have provided. The midwife I used, who owns a local birthing center, has rights at two hospitals. She also works with an on/gyn for women with complications, having multiples or wanting a vbac (all which must be delivered in a hospital). If…

Want to know what's actually stupid? The way hospitals treat pregnancy and birth. Here's a nice simple list of a few of the problems with how hospitals do things:

And how does a person respond to something like this? How does a woman who started reading this website as a teenager, who used to seek refuge here when her ideas about gender and equality were shot down by her friends, peers, and sometimes even family, who for some reason imagined this place as being a center for…

Oh my god. Please take this pile of baby pandas as a symbol of my sympathies. =(

Holy crap, that sucks. I know it's hard but try not to take it personally. This is not a normal thing for a guy to do. It's not because he got sick of you or she was prettier or etc. etc. He obviously has some issues he needs to work on.

I'm sorry. That really sucks.

I'm sorry to hear about this :(

I'm so sorry to hear that, love.

Internet hugs. :(

That is incredibly shocking, what a horrible horrible deceitful thing to do to someone. I don't know how, and you don't know how yet, but at some point the pain will be less and there will be other, better things in your life. I don't know what to say except, have a big internet hug.

Jennifer Garner. Frumpy as f most of the time. Also, thin.

I don't think her comment is gross, it's her opinion; and she isn't the only person that sees it that way.

I do. Frumpy is about wearing ill-fitting clothes not about the size of the body underneath them.

Marie Clare UK did a pretty good job dressing her. And it's worse on Girls. Waaay worse.

It's also that TERRIBLE lego style hair cut that she has.

Yeah, I know what you mean. You're not body snarking, you're fashion snarking. I dress super sloppy and frumpy in day to day life, but I can turn it out and look very nice too. If I were in a position like Lena is, you know, in the public eye? I would try to look somewhat put together. Actually, I'd hire a stylist,…

Totally from the Golden Girls!!!! Who doesn't love the Golden Girls? When I have kids I am naming them Blanche, Sophia, Rose, and Dorothy, EVEN IF THEY ARE BOYS.

I see you, 2010 Twihard moms.