I grew up with a heart surgeon for a father and a nurse for a mother. I have to consistently remind myself that my husband’s family doesn’t have the medical knowledge that my family does and recounting of hospital related events will take 2-3 conversations to get the actual terms and events right.

I know a lady with an immune disease (scleroderma) who takes chemotherapy drugs for it, and she calls it chemo too. I think when people have these kinds of invisible illnesses, having treatments that have names that convince regular people of the seriousness of their conditions is a way of dealing with the stigma of…

Ughhh, “hang in there, mama!” Sorry, but I ain’t your mama. It’s the worst. Just because you are growing or caring for a human does not mean the rest of the world gets to reduce you to that.

Wow. Commenters in rare form here. This is a life saving development that we shouldn’t be excited about because BIG PHARMA might make a buck and at any rate, zika’s all hype, and hey, let’s be sure to ration it so that the kids of unscientificly minded people can be reap their appropriate karmic rewards.

Yessssssss let’s absolutely make this about the vaccine “industry” and shady pharmaceutical companies rather than saving lives and preventing birth defects.

I’m #teamtheotherone

I assumed it was just a funny pic of some random that got spread across the internets.

Counterpoint: there are a wide variety of learning disabilities, some of which would bear on this matter, others of which would not.

I was trying to picture how this was even seen as a possible option, and then I googled the county - population 27,000. So, this jail inmate is totally the lazy deputy’s cousin or best friend, right? Maybe even one who washed out of the police academy or worked as a prison guard? And he figures broseph isn’t a “real”…

I often think about what I would do in these type of situations and tricking a wolf into getting attacked by a bear is not something I would think to do.

This woman is so badass.

“There is a family on my street. . . “

There is a family on my street. All young girls, their big loud mouthed mom and a dad nearly everyone had seen hit their dogs. Six dogs, give or take, they run away a lot. Those kids... I’ve seen the oldest hit those dogs, too. When one chased me she told me to hit it with a stick. She’s maybe eleven. Those kids... I…

Unfortunately, the Amish community houses a large percentage of the worst and most horrific puppy mills in the country, so it’s almost certainly more of an Amish thing than a serial killer thing (though the Amish community has also had massive problems with ignoring and covering up rape and sexual abuse, so probably…

I’m impressed you’ve got it together enough to open the laptop and comment, let alone read shit. Congrats and way to go!

I’m only three weeks post partum with our second so my only real option this Father’s Day is a good BJ and UGH that just sounds like the Worst right now. Sorry dude, I’ll over-compensate with the nice grill you’ve had your eye on and we’ll do a drunken weekend away soon.

This is about butt stuff right

Until something bad happens. Then it’s “Why didn’t you DO something?!?!”

Yup. Woman are always made to feel like they are overreacting if they find a man creepy. We’re supposed to be understanding of gross behavior and write it off as “social awkwardness.” Fuck that noise. Trust your gut ladies.