Look mate, I agree with you. This is a shitty, schlocky cliche collection. I hated the whole movie and everyone in it. Nobody said it was a mystery. Clearly, you are not as susceptible to emotional manipulation as me. So either, well done on your rock hard cynicism (mine is marshmallowy at best), or you are also a…

The Notebook, which from what I recall from my ten-millionth viewing roughly a week ago, is actually a great film.

Post-fetus now-babby-is-formed men are still drnuk. 

I started crying when I saw my body days after giving birth. My stomach was hanging, wrinkly from my body like a big bread dough. It’s one of my strongest memories after giving birth. If I had been more prepared, the shock wouldn’t have been so great.

Yes, exactly. I feel like this article just wants to take issue for the sake of taking issue. The advertising industry has done so much harm to womens self image from the start with narrow idea of whats okay and attractive. You dont need to buy a product in order to be affected by the adverts. For better or worse.

It is. I used to be a DDD with tits that stood up so nicely they could be fake. My tits are H cups now. At least I can use them as weapons.

I don’t understand this article. Things that are, apparently, a nono:

I traded my ‘ideal body’ (that’s a lie, actually.. I never possessed one of those) for not having cancer, so there’s that.

It seems to me that it’s less about *this* is normal and it’s more about *here are a lot of things and they are all just fine*. Just being able to see your body shape, size, color out there in the wild is affirming, whether or not it’s qualified at all. 

I just don’t see what you see in these post partum photos. They DO normalize that pregnancy and childbirth can have lasting effects on women’s bodies and it’s ok with experience that. It’s better than pretending a woman is supposed to bounce back within X weeks or she’s a failure/whale, which has been the prevailing…

I feel like people will take issue with absolutely anything and everything. 

How far we’ve come that any picture of a body is now a “hot take” worthy picture of a body. This campaign clearly isn’t FOR YOU, but it is incredibly validating and helpful to a lot of people. I mean, holy shit, how much time have you just wasted on being angry about someone else’s stretchmarks?!

How many kids have you adopted?

This reminds me of a photo project someone did of taking photos of mothers very soon after birth. Let me see if I can go find it:

I don ‘t know what to suggest or do.  But I do have two family members who basically … avoided swimming, avoided anything their body would be seen, and had serious intimacy problems with their partners post baby because they could never feel comfortable with heavy stretch marks/loose skin.  I find those things are…

Vaccines have had harmful side-effects for a small handful of people out of the millions who receive them. Just like pretty much any other medicine. The idea that this is somehow unique to vaccines and, as such, is reason to not vaccinate is absurd. If I could sue you, I would. Trust me. 

You don’t like society and experts? Go away, stop living off of the good that comes from it then.

Hi Hazel, it’s Aboriginal tradition to avoid using the name of a deceased person. If you’re up for it, I’m sure redacting her first name would be seen as a show of respect to her family and people.

Measles is the new black, ya’ll!