Was honestly so caught off-guard that I couldn’t do anything but sit there & try not to cry until she was done “coaching” me. With 10 years’ perspective, yeah -- it was sabotage.

Did you ask *why*?? Sone folks are just looking to sabotage you. 

In college, I had someone in a mentorship position tell me, “Everyone finds you off-putting” and it shattered me. I am an incredibly confident person with very healthy self-esteem, but it took me years to recover from that moment -- constantly second guessing myself in social situations. Even now, a decade later, I…

Although critics find her style off-putting [Citation needed]...

“Critics find her...” is code for a rhetorical construct created by those who fear her very strength. Warren doesn’t lack charisma; to the contrary, she’s got it in abundance, and that’s precisely why this canard is repeated constantly - to convince people that they’re not seeing the very qualities they are seeing.

I am hoping against hope that farther down in this thread is a woman posting her story about how when she was a tween she got her first period in the dark woods while on vacation with someone else’s family, and then I hope you both lock eyes and say “it’s you!” and then you get together over international coffee and…

My family once decided to drive almost 2.500 miles from Fairbanks, Alaska to a small town in Eastern Washington. We were going to my uncle’s wedding. Taking advantage of the fact the whole family was getting together, there was an intervention planned the day before for another uncle who was an alcoholic. On one hand…

I’m addicted to controlling my own body in order to pursue my chosen career!

I see the “don’t take this pill because it will draaaaaaain your liiiiiiife” nonsense as being along the same lines as the people who insist that taking antidepressants will destroy all of your creative abilities so therefore you should be FREE and LIBERATED and DEPRESSED FOREVER because the world needs your gifts.…

Holly Griggs-Spall, a writer who believes The Pill is an “addictive” drug created to keep women sexually available and in the workforce

These attacks on reproductive healthcare under the guise of “feminist wellness” make me feeling like I’m fucking unhinged. You know what actually makes you “less vibrant”? Being destroyed by unchecked PCOS symptoms. Oral contraceptives are the only solution—short of having a hysterectomy—that relieve me of the…

I’ve been on some form of the pill for close to thirty years now, so I’m going to counter anecdata with anecdata ;-). I love the damn thing. After going on the pill, my PMS symptoms lessened, my migraines were more controllable, and, oh yeah, I could almost completely dismiss the worry about getting pregnant thanks to…

I relate hard to the last two paragraphs here. I really like him and hope that he can use this to get some momentum for a House or Senate run (at the very least, he’d be an improvement on Evan Bayh or Joe Donnelly.) But the more the spotlight has shone on him, the less appealing he looks as a candidate (particularly…

We’ve seen this show already...

Honestly, I hate when they use this kind of a thing an as example. Of course it is horrific, but it is no more valid than a twentysomething person who wants an abortion so they can finish school. Or a thirtysomething person who doesn’t want another baby. There is no "excuse" needed. A person got pregnant and wants an…

I am the only child (out of 12 siblings) who did not accept an arranged marriage. The divorce statistics between arranged and non-arranged marriages are irrelevant in determining the happiness or agency of the women entering into, or remaining in, such unions. Those that enter into arranged marriage already embrace a…

I read a great quote about how the rate of divorce reflects the freedom women possess. High rates of divorce mean more freedom because it shows women not only have the power to choose to leave a bad marriage, but also know that they will be able to support themselves financially without a husband. Low rates of divorce…