And don't get cats declawed. It's fairly cruel in that they really don't understand what the deal is, and declawed cats usually bite.

You could say that once it's in, the uterus is under construction because you just had some new copper wire installed. :3

"We thought we'd see what happened"??? WHAT A FASCINATING EXPERIMENT WITH A SUPER SURPRISING RESULT.

I admire this woman so goddamn much. It's is an incredibly personal, painfull choice to make (as was the preventative mastectomy), and one that will put her into immediate menopause which is no picnic. I think it's laudable that she shares her choices and her decision making in such a way that creates a conversation…

Everyone is different. I, for example, have never had a child. And aside from initial discomfort (1-2 days of cramps), haven't had any problems with my IUD.

"and they're just like 'Oh, I can't handle things being in my vagina,'"

While I know there will be criticism around her writing of this piece— "she's self indulgent! elitist! out of touch! who cares!" etc. etc. I have to say that I didn't know anything about the BRCA1 gene mutation/testing before her first piece. It educated and informed me and my friends. This one educated me as well.

I really like the iffy stuff she did when she was young and I think that's how she grew up to be so amazing. not to derail, but I kind of think Angelina Jolie's exploration of herself when she was young, and her ability to allow herself to make mistakes, really let her figure out who she was and embrace that sense of…

She wrote the op-ed because she is one of the highest profile women in the world and therefore is in a unique position to raise awareness about a condition that could become fatal for millions of women... But you're totally right. "Sit down and shut up, woman" is a much more appropriate stance to make. Ugh.

Did you miss this part?: "After Jolie's last op-ed, there was a rash of conversation over whether mastectomies for women who carry the BRCA1 gene were really the best way to go; some women said Jolie inspired them to get tested and have the same surgery she had, and at least one study showed that Jolie had been the imp…

Didn't we all do iffy stuff when we were young?

I know she did some iffy stuff when she was young, but damn if she didn't grow up to be an amazing and inspiring woman.

But it's so much more entertaining to be a huge asshole and piss people off, instead of communicating like a reasonable adult!

And they still are hostile to black women today and most do ignore what black women have to say about racism.

Every time I read Sojourner Truth's early 1850s speech "Ain't I a Woman?" I'm also reminded that she was making an argument for women's rights based on gender equality, not gender difference. White feminists for many decades continued to argue the party line that gender difference, specifically women's supposed unique…

I think it's cute how Americans think that feminism is an American idea and they refer to it and speak about it in those terms.

Hey, Abigail Adams was calling for a revolution of women in the 1770s.

"I thought they invented the feminist movement. I've learned feminism disproportionately from black women,"

the White middle-class part of the movement got reported more,