And no phucs were given.
I imagine the answer to the first two is that many Americans just don’t pay much attention to the news in general unless it’s one of those “breaking” stories like a terrorist attack. As for the primary being longer, I think that’s a result of the Citizens United decision; more money to fight over a longer period of…
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I am so sorry for everything you are going through. A million internet hugs for you.
Two weeks ago I posted about my boyfriend demanding I have an abortion (after he told me to go off the pill because he wanted children). I went through with the abortion, mostly because I didn’t want to lose him. I didn’t really want to get rid of my baby, but I couldn’t imagine life without him. Everyone told me he…
While I was getting in the car to go to my little sister’s funeral...
Grew up in Milan, where you see skinny models everywhere. The women in my family are small and pretty. I came out taller and bigger and hungrier. My mom goes to the gym seven days a week twice a day and has been on a diet since 1987, the time I was born at a low weight because she had decided she was too fat and…
I think my sister has you all beat.
My goodness. I don’t have a story to add but I just wanted to say to all those who are sharing stories, I’m sorry your parents said shitty things to you. Truly. :(
My mom & I were walking along the main street of my hometown when I was around 15, and she casually turned to me and said, apropos of nothing, “Your sister’s going to be much prettier than you when she gets older.”
“I don’t know what you would have done if we hadn’t adopted you- you wouldn’t make a very good prostitute”. (Adopted as a child from a communist country. It was a true statment, but vulgar coming from a parent. Emancipated shortly there after).
You win for Best Comeback.
fuck.
My dad used to joke when I had braces that all I needed in addition to those railroad tracks were glasses and then I would never find a husband.
“If you’d just BRUSH your hair more often it would look good!”
Dad when I was 15: “You could stand to lose a few...” I was around 135 then...and I’m 5’7”.
“You are the fattest person I’ve ever had the misfortune of meeting.” -Mom
I’m in a similar situation and have found OBG’s by and large seem to fall into 2 types: the ones who are more respectful of patient autonomy and evidence-based (these tend to be under 50 and female), whereas in the second category there are still a lot of the authoritarian types who “we’ve always done it this way” -…