Xander intentionally neglects to provide Buffy with life-threatening information about Willow’s attempt to reinvoke Angel’s curse, instead telling Buffy to “kick his ass”. This betrays Willow’s trust and endangers Buffy. After Buffy comes back from her L.A. freakout over having to send her lover to hell, Xander calls…

Xander is the worst.

Xander told Buffy that when Riley was cheating on her with a vamp, and was leaving to go reclaim his manhood, that it was all Buffy’s fault. Xander was a quintessential “nice guy”. I can’t see him as being a good guy.

Xander sucked.

Seriously, by all appearances, this movie is peak Male Gaze. Like, HOLY CRAP SO MANY LAYERS OF MALE GAZE. I think he thinks he invented the angel/whore complex? I could probably go my whole life without hearing the musings of even one more ~overprotective dad~ and be just fine, thank you.

I rewatched Buffy not too long ago and Xander really is the worst.

I’m of the view there’s no appropriate time to release a film like this and maybe we can stop making films that pedal the fantasy that any teenage girl would be interested in gross older guys altogether. The fantasy is entirely ONE-SIDED.

Uh... is this comment necessary? I don’t know what you hoped to add to this conversation, except you want congratulations for not sexually exploiting women who look at you in the shower? Or that you’re somehow exempt from misogyny because you’re a gay man?

Matt Damon has four daughters, people! He’s now contractually obligated to care about women.

I get your point, but it is well documented that doctors’ decisions to subject someone to a c-section are not solely based on a clear medical need and there are other things in play that factor into that decision (including the doctor’s preferences, the amount of time he or she wishes to devote to a patient, and…

It is a long time for labor, but “labor” is very different for different women, and who knows how much of that was in the hospital. I was in labor for total of about 20 hours, but about 14 of those were at home and wasn’t actually horrible. I was actually trying to figure out if it was actually labor for probably…

Dont apply property law to womens bodies.

Wait, women aren’t property and my uterus isn’t a yard across which a fetus is crossing, with or without my permission?

Have you listened at all to NPR’s series on maternal mortality in the US? It’s all terrifying, but the last two are the most upsetting. Basically, medical staff at a birth are so focused on care for the baby that they don’t have adequate knowledge of what to look out for in terms of the mother’s health. NPR doesn’t…

This is terrible and tragic but so not surprising to me. I went into the ER once and the hospital said I needed two surgeries, and the hospital scheduled them one right after the other.

So there’s an excellent documentary called, “Birthright; A War Story” that’s appearing here and there right now (I saw it last week as part of an event hosted by a local reproductive rights coalition) and it is excellent. It talks about the insidious ways the pro-life movement has affected every aspect of women’s…

You can’t cut into my body to harvest a kidney, even if someone will die without it.

Yup. Agree with commenters above that there’s a lot we don’t know about the specifics of this particular case, and I certainly don’t have the medical expertise to interpret the details, but it scares me in terms of establishing a precedent. What if I need elective-ish medical care while pregnant that carries a minor…

This was a fear that my wife and I had so we chose to give birth at a hospital 40 minutes away with a 23% C-section rate rather than the one 10 minutes away with a 33% C-section rate. It is insane how the rates vary *consistently* between hospitals.

I find it interesting/alarming that the hospital policy says “the fetus.” This could potentially come into play a lot earlier than nine months.