They had a rationale, great. It’s hard to understand in 2015 how they could conflate a parent/child dance with a STEM event, as though the two are somehow comparable.

The school’s assumption that planning a specifically mother/son event would not exclude girls, and that girls would just know this somehow and feel…

Google’s not alone. iPad? Seriously? People have gotten used to that (although it’s always going to be one of those things women look at each other and laugh about), so maybe they’ll get used to constant references to an almost-porn site too.

If women have to trade one set of risks for another in order to have a comfortable, convenient life, then three cheers for them. I really am not OK with this idea that convenience is a selfish factor to consider when choosing birth control. It isn’t. It *ought* to be one of the factors women consider, and we do. Women…

I don’t think less of people who use various options available to women for birth control, including the option of not using hormonal birth control at all. We’re all intelligent adults here, we each know our own situation/body/tolerances, and we make our choices based on that. That’s rational. I don’t understand why…

Dang girl. You’re a hero just living through all this. Burn and die, periods!

That’s good, seeing a doctor. I was similar to your daughter when I was her age. It took YEARS for them to figure out that I had endometriosis, and by then it was stage 4 and I had to choose between surgery and being induced into early menopause. (I chose surgery, and the heroic doctor, seeing I was in my 20s and…

The peace of mind thing, I hear you. Just be aware that after you have a child, well, people with horrible periods often find things much improved after having a child. It really helps. Don’t worry about early menopause or anything. It’s pretty typical for your periods to get better after having children. Mine were…

You’re joking, right? As the commercial says, “That’s not how any of this works!”