“I guess I feel like, if you want to have a baby, and you want to get pregnant, you shouldn’t be offended when someone who knows you points out that your body is doing it’s job and what an exciting change it is. You should have expected this. I get hormones are a bitch and all that, but I very rarely have anything to…

I’m fairly certain domestic products wont work on the level of lead contamination we’re talking about here.

I live in Michigan. Quite frankly, Michigan should have more access to clean water than almost any other State in the entire country. We have a LOT of fresh water that can easily be treated and consumed. There is NO excuse for a water crisis like this to be happening in Michigan. Not one. Americans have too much money…

The problem is that what is poisoning the water is the pipes in the ground, so they cannot use the existing infrastructure to deliver the water — all the pipes in Flint are tainted. I guess you could bring in water by the tanker, but it wouldn’t be considered potable at that point, it would need to be cleaned again…

The Flint water scandal feels like it should be bigger news. A governor and his hand picked city manager poisoned, and possibly killed, people in the name of “fiscal conservatism.” This should be the leading story on the nightly news and on cable news until Snyder is arrested.

The scary thing about Legionnaires is that you don’t even have to consume the water. You can contract the disease by inhaling the infected water.

I don’t understand why you are under the impression that the only possible topics of conversation with a pregnant woman are (a) kids and (b) how large she is. Pregnant women are still human beings with personalities and interests and such. I promise it is totally possible to say, “Congrats on the pregnancy! Hey, did…

i don’t like kids either, but this comment just makes you sound like an insensitive asshole. it sounds like you have trouble empathising with anyone who doesn’t have a life exactly like yours. that must suck for the people around you who have to deal with your obtuseness and insensitivity. like, i’m autistic and i can…

Chering is caring.

Because commenting on the shape of other people’s bodies is pretty damn tacky to begin with, and our society inundates women absolutely nonstop with the idea that “big” and “fat” and so forth are incredibly terrible, shameful adjectives to have attached to yourself?

I don’t agree the analogies were bad. “Now, I’m aware this analogy isn’t perfect” /= bad. (I guess maybe you live your life where everything that isn’t perfect is bad, but I don’t)

I suggest not commenting on a pregnant person’s size, and here’s just one reason: 1) they are getting comments from every single person they see. Not joking. I had a phase of my pregnancy—not even the end—when attending any social event was miserable. I wasn’t trying to keep track, but ended up doing so just because…

...are you in my head?

So is talking to pregnant women. If you don’t want to talk about boppies and diapers, change the subject or politely excuse yourself. Using that as an excuse for making gratuitous comments about a woman’s body would be laughable if it weren’t so fucking pathetic.

You are aware you’re bigger when you’re pregnant, right?

No woman wants to be called huge, pregnant or not, and the fact that you don’t get that makes me wonder if you’ve ever been called huge. A woman’s body size is no one’s business but her own.

It’s the kind of thing you say at 14 because you are 14 and 14 year olds are terrible.

The deprivation of a dishwasher for these folks actually bothered me more than the lack of a doorman. Doormen are more of a luxury feature in my opinion.

“Hello ladies, you’re looking lovely this evening. Maybe we should all go back to my room...have you ever heard of Settlers of Catan?”

I have a theory that Leonardo DiCaprio doesn’t actually have sex with the huge number of women he brings back to his room, he just really likes board games.