“Cue the fatphobic shitstorm.”

I’m pretty sure it makes me a bad person, because I suppose I’m thin-shaming, but as soon as I saw all that weight Adele lost, I lost a lot of respect for her. Like she wasn’t stunning where she was? I appreciated that she was gorgeous and elegant and classy *and* “overweight”. Now, she’s just another skinny celebrity…

Apparently it’s bc the one’s they’ve tried had side effects that were possibly similar to the female contraceptive pill (though I suppose even though they both say “mood swings”- you can’t tell the severity and permanence between the two so maybe they were actually worse than pill side effects). I mean there are guys…

most people are focused on getting through day to day life somehow while spending 40-60 hours making money for someone else, so numbing themselves when they get home from work and not engaging is common, especially now. But it’s been happening for years, and getting worse and worse while the haves (middle &…

Every media outlet relies on page clicks, unfortunately, including (especially) this one. 

YES! Thank you for saying this better than I could. It is and has always been the number one issue for me. And that is probably because I am a privleged white lady who never has to worry about being killed by police for existing. But I had to stop reading articles when it started making me sad. It only upset me and…

This is a problem born of privilege. I’m 40. Everyone in my grandmother’s generation knew someone who died from a back alley abortion. They may have called it something else, but that’s what the young lady died from. 

This is literally the talk I just had with my dad re: Republicans and abortion. They just wanna force people to have kids and then be done with it. Nothing set up socially to help them after the fact. And trump and his ilk are actively rolling back the good things Obama did for health care and contraceptives and…

Perhaps helpful, is to reframe this issue as far more encompassing than a woman’s rights issue, and show it for what it truly is; A Class Issue, which affects all genders.

I’m surprised and not surprised that men don’t get involved in reproductive freedoms. Don’t men want to have a say as well in how many children they want and the spacing of those children? Don’t men want their partners to be able work without being discriminated against? Don’t men want to have an economic boost to…

Can’t agree more. I am very pro-choice but next week I get the NIPT results back for my pregnancy and my family has a big history with Trisomy 13 so I’m very nervous. If it comes back positive, I’ll abort even though it took 4 IUIs to get here. But I live in Montana where the republicans have gutted our access to…

Your old employer sounds shite, and that wage plan is just designed to foster sensationalism. It adds kindling to the dumpster fire that our society has become.

Totally agree with you, and I know this isn’t the author’s fault, but there is something icky about paying per click. You’re just incentivizing incendiary content instead of relevant news.

This is what you get when reproductive rights are seen solely as a women’s issue. No wonder no one cares.

If the anti-abortion people were actually about reducing abortions, they would be all for sex ed and access to contraceptives. The fact that they hate those things even more than abortion shows what it’s actually about:

Does it surprise anyone that the very same people who complain that women are having kids and going on relief also just as vehemently opposed to abortion.

I feel like I should speak up for a (probably small) demographic. I care deeply about abortion rights, and have since I was about 10. BUT I don’t always click on each story for the simple reason that 1. I know it will piss me off and I have a 4yo in lockdown and can’t afford to lose any more patience than I already do…

Gotta say, putting “and no one will read it” was a good way of getting me to read it. And I’m glad I did, especially because of the reference to the Turnaway study, I hadn’t known about that.

True - with him it’s not surprising. I am happy she found someone but I’m also like “Teach me your ways and I will pay good money to hear them!” well, not good money. But I’ll venmo $10 or something.

I have noticed when talking to all of my divorced friends that the men can somehow move on very quickly. Almost all of…

It’s a good thing for his new wife that people aren’t going to the gym very often with Covid