Ugh. I am also 14 months out, look like a 17 year old child bride (I’m 27), am resisting/masochistically indulging in the Pinterest alternative universe and the phrase “make it your own” is steadily throwing me into an identity crisis. Add unsavory family dynamics and you and I would have quite the cathartic round of…

Sitz baths are old medicine, especially wonderful post-partum. We sell herbs for vag steams at my work- they only cost $10 tho.

Their point is to have pockets lined with drug money.

heartbroken.

WTF

I aww'd

I aww'd

because their considered "moors", meaning people mixed with African blood, meaning not white.

they're white.

It's called probability.

living in a home for people with severe mental illness

in other words: "I need to throw other women under the bus in order to gain male validation!"

Your dad sent that to you?? WTF.

Agreed. If we're going to have a space to talk about these topics, especially when they're so new and emotions are running high, there needs to be a safe space. I've been avoiding articles I really want to read and respond to because it tears me apart to read the same troll bullshit everywhere this week.

fuck.

you are gross. how's that for creep shaming?

like it's only sociopathy if he murdered men too, right?

Well, I think we just fundamentally disagree about the purpose of feminism then. I don't think the ultimate goal is to make sure people feel more comfortable or be able to "lean in"- it's to challenge the idea that anyone has to lean in in the first place. It's to challenge gender based oppression by seeing how it…

No, solidarity can totally account for difference in terms of respecting different contexts and lived-experiences of women. And there can be grass-roots and ivory tower, I'm saying that neither of them get enough attention to educate people who aren't scholars or activists. Getting at the root of all injustices, which…

yup!