Depends on the mosque, but in the UAE you are correct of course. Maybe my bar is low for Kardashians, but the fact that she both wanted to visit a mosque and went out of her way to prepare to do so in a culturally appropriate way surprises me.

I was totally prepared to hate on Kendall for appropriation/Orientalism/etc but now that I see she was actually covering herself in a mosque, I'm okay with it. I mean, a $3000 hijab probably isn't the best investment for a non-Muslim woman but it probably also wasn't the most expensive scarf that mosque had ever…

Not only did he break the rules, the NYPD had ALREADY paid out a civil suit for his use of a choke hold in the past.

We were gifted a hand-me-down Felicity earlier this year and now I feel like I should send some cash to the girl who outgrew them . On the plus side, while it isn't cash, we made sure the giver got some photos of my oldest loving on that Felicity doll so hard.

This is the summary from Lake:

"In the fifty years since its release, the pill has become synonymous with women's liberation and has been thought of as some sort of miracle drug," said Lake and Epstein. "But now it's making women sick and so our goal with this film is to wake women up to the unexposed side effects of…

Pretty sure she's going to come out as anti -

She's got a thing for Natural Family Planning, which I (heart) but is really not the right choice for everyone.

I've wondered about how my kid's violin teacher manages to get through the day. 30 minutes of practice and I'm ready to claw my ears off.

I agree that this poor child needs to get away from that toxic situation. At the same time, can you imagine? She needs a seriously experienced parent to even begin to undo years of being shockingly spoiled.

Maybe Wal-Mart is being transgressive and reclaiming both Fat and Girl? A web search for "Fat Girl Blog" turns up a ton of results. Fatgirlblog.com, Fatgirlphd.com, fatgirlslikeniceclothestoo.com

(For the record, Upham seemed to be a supporter of PETA, so it's not clear if the dead bird was targeted towards her or if she just found the bird barbarically tied up.)

Well, the cold cuts thing has some basis in actual science. The chances of it happening are really slim, probably not enough to make all pregnant women give up turkey breast for their whole gestation, but I wouldn't say "nothing's going to happen." I'd say, "the chances of something happening are so slim that you're…

This is of course nonsense, but it's a fairly common piece of nonsense. I've known lots of women who lost pregnancies, and who believed that their child's "spirit" came back in a new baby at some later time. It's kind of jarring, but it's benign.

It's really interesting to hear about your experience in the UK, although I'm sorry the NCT rep was so rude. That's awful, and totally uncalled for.

The reason I'm interested is because, in a single payer system, I would guess that any profit incentive for doctors to perform c-sections would be reduced. There would…

I have such a hard time believing that women are getting the "breastfeeding at all costs" message, since the breastfeeding rate in this country after about six weeks is fairly low. I mean, I believe you when you say so, since you did research, but it bothers me to hear about how nursing moms are all such Nazis,…

You know, I'm not bothered by birth plans. My anecdotal experience with my own peer group is that the system is kind of stacked against an intervention-free birth even in the best of circumstances, with no complications other than the normal agonies of childbirth.
So, if you have a birth plan you have probably also…

Speaking of people who are the problem - this is what I mean. I intentionally talked about celebrating growing a baby (which all birth mothers do) rather than the process of the birth itself. You read it as some sort of competitive comment about birth, which I went out of my way to talk about the miracle of…

I had never heard that terminology before. Cool!

"One of my boys was breech and a couple of people told me I really should search for another doc who would do a vaginal birth with Baby B breech. I did not, and had a spontaneous c-section."

I'm horrified at the mental image called by the phrase "spontaneous c-section." As if your abdomen split on its own.

Congrats…

I agree that it's best not to offer condolences unless someone tells you they are upset - that goes for c-sections as much as divorces and job changes. But I'm just pushing back on this idea that someone who thoughtlessly offered "I'm sorry" might not be doing so out of birth competition but rather a genuine…

I guess you can find crazy people being crazy all over the place. Morrissey is the most obnoxious vegan I can possibly imagine, but I'm not going to assume that everyone who mentions in conversation that they don't eat meat/dairy is similarly insane.