I wish it wasn’t so hard to find balance for people. Knowing exactly what was going to happen, with as many variables as possible, helped me and my husband get through a ton of labor at home and get to the hospital safely. There are *so fucking many* points that I would have freaked out if I hadn’t had the intense…

Home births are also on the rise, especially in the growing evangelical and fundamentalist movements.

You’re right! And to be dismissive of women who say that is ridiculous.

When you put it all together, I see it. Black women deal with racism and sexism at the same time so those are auto stressors. Black women are married at lower rates and are often the sole provider, so they have no choice but to work through the entirety of their pregnancies. That’s another stressor. Where as white…

We’ve been taught that birth is a natural process, maaaan, and we were built to do it, so birth should be fine. I think even a lot of people in the medical community have forgotten how very dangerous it can be. Also, a feeling that something is really, really wrong is a medical symptom. It’s true that if you’re a…

I had a very strange complication with my last birth: Peripartum Cardiomyopathy. No one listened to me when I described my symptoms in the hospital (one of the biggest and best in the country, btw) after delivering a very healthy baby following a very healthy and uneventful pregnancy. I was discharged but at home, my…

Can Kara Brown teach Ed a lesson??

And in case anyone is leaving out the third option: some of us are doing both! I celebrate when the headlines hit and feel giddy, then at night I’ll occassionally curl into a ball as I remember my own assault I’ll never get justice for.

Actually, I think I do need this.

Who cares what they think? They wear shirts boasting about murdering journalists. Why does what they think matter one bit?

Literally everything a feminist does or says plays into their stupid narrative. Who cares what they think of us?

You need to meet people outside your echo chamber, it sounds like. There’s nothing at all wrong in glee at finally seeing justice done, rather than curling into a ball and reliving the trauma of the injustice.

It’s not an overstatement to say we’re in the middle of an epochal shift, for a lot of things. One common feature of such situations is that for a while no one is quite sure what’s appropriate because the usual agreements on appropriateness have broken down.

Women have been collectively treated like shit for centuries. Centuries.

i love that it’s a chubby white guy yelling at a woman and a black man about this.

This reminds of a woman I used to be kinda friends with.

Sadly, I have been sexually abused by 2 women during our Halloween party about 10 years ago. I was really hammered. I came to when one of the girls boyfriend opened the door and screamed “what the fuck are you doing?!” When I came to, one was kissing me and the other was performing oral sex. These were my friends. If…

I’m not yet 30, and I was just as in the dark. I also don’t have cable, though.

Is she famous? For the record, I am an old.

I just want to slap everyone who shills essential oils to anyone in any measure as some kind of cure for an actual ailment.