I was at a baby shower once talking about how my husband and I were thinking about adopting and this mother said: "What is the point if they're not your kids?" And I was just speechless.

I think for people who do not have children, friends' pregnancies can be weird - we know that new moms need rest, and we don't necessarily know how to help with children in the first place, and we don't want to be invasive, and we know the friendship will have to change, so it can be hard to know how to interact.…

What a terrible approach to motherhood and fertility. God sent me a "message" that I wasn't meant to be a mother, and that was my total terror of the motherhood, pregnancy, and offspring in general. If I could donate my fertility to another woman (without, you know, actually bearing the children) I would.

I am more forgiving of randos than of the people in adoption group. Cause damnit, I know you were fucking required to take 18h of classes on adoption, and read a book, and there was a freaking test. And you still didn't learn a damn thing! How? What in the how is that possible?

Bring Fettuccini Alfredo; for my face hole:

Er, I kind of side with the nurse who has more seniority who doesn't want to be put on midnights simply because she never had a kid. Graveyard shifts are linked to an increase of chance of cancer development. If the HR rule states that seniority is the deciding factor to shift choice, then the argument was over; life…

Patriarchy is a set of values and standards that we all enable and we can all change, yo. It benefits men more than women while fucking us all over, but patriarchy /= men. Stop thinking men == patriarchy and you'll freak out a lot less.

On that note I wish mental health days were given separate from sick days. Wishes, pennies, millionaires.

EATING PIZZA NOW IT FEELS SO RIGHT

This is a story of how one of the worst days of my life ended up reaffirming my faith in strangers and in the human race in general.

Several years ago I was at an "art show" with friends (there was art there, but we were concentrating on listening to music and getting drunk) and a guy that I had been casually dating walked in. Now, we were not exclusive, and that was fine with me. I chatted with him and our other friends a bit, then he went off to…

The most disturbing fact is he picked Her up FROM A PLAYGROUND.

SERIOUSLY.

Which is sort of horrifying in itself, that they were so shocked. I mean seriously, it's a joke but, were they JUST staring at the tits and thought "hey, let's try for that!"??? Because I got a lot of male attention before it was developmentally appropriate myself, and I had no idea how to deal. Dudes seriously…

The second you get tits, as far as society is concerned, it doesn't matter what your age is. Your tits do the consenting for you. As someone who started developing at eleven and had grown men look genuinely shocked that I wasn't over eighteen, I know this to be true.

13. Thirteen. THIRTEEN.

I'm only replying to because I, too, am in the grays and thus this doesn't count as approval of your gross justification for statutory rape that I'm going to go ahead and assume you've committed.

It does say in the body of the article:

I am not even shocked. I heard some old people in Florida say some crazy stuff about Obama.