I’d also like to chime in that I was born at home. Really well. Into the hands of a highly trained midwife that my mother was lucky to find. My parents delayed my vaccines due to a near-fatal reaction an older sibling had as a newborn. A few decades later, I somehow managed to grow-up into a critically-thinking…

Yes! Per all things healthcare in the US, so much has to do with who can bill for what, i.e. $$$, which influences things like how education is accredited and how folks are certified. We often think of science as the governing body of healthcare, but it really, really isn’t. It’s politics, wo/man. And just as we live…

It’s really disheartening to watch the people who wield all of the admission/rejection/forming-young-minds power to completely cower in the face of spoiled brats who really like to throw parties. This is why people are skeptical of free higher education platforms - why the fuck would I want my taxes to go anywhere…

The only thing that ruins this for me is that it’s shot in NYC. In a year or two, they all have a %50 chance of becoming the most insufferable people we went to college with. I already know these stories because they dominated classroom discussion and party chatter in undergrad and beyond.

Just a couple thoughts:

How depressing is it that I, a somewhat enlightened, aspiring feminist, would have never even thought to ask my male counterparts to help a girl out?

Seriously. Where does anyone register their religion? Thankfully, in spite of all the scary bullshit this past year, we are nowhere near that - maybe ideologically, but not practically.

As a toddler, I used to wander away from my mother in public and then when she would come and take me by the hand I would scream for help. I either had an incredibly precocious sense of humor or owe her a thousand of the finest Mother’s Day presents.

I’m an old and I love this. Daniel is cute. Vans are great. High school must be insane for this generation.

Molly for sure had a vastly lighter burden to carry, but I did try to eat only the vegetables I grew one summer (mostly dill and tomatoes :/) because of the rationing narrative in her books. Also, Samantha and Molly didn’t have fathers present. Were there more? I feel like absent fathers might’ve been a common theme...

“If it was a one-time mistake/If you want to stay together.”

LOL, for a while I doubted trolling because it was too...whiny? But this whole - if it hasn’t previously existed on a network television show, then I refuse to trust it as a possible source of entertainment - thing is hilarious. Well done. Count me in. If it’s not about a cop-turned-drug-dealer who, after a freak…

What you’re describing is actually Girls, which airs on HBO. And I guarantee that no one will decry any criticisms you have for that show.

If we didn’t have justices ‘til death do us part, we wouldn’t have to be celebrating anyone’s death.

WTF even is a “boutique study”? Was basic scientific language like “pilot study” not snarky enough?

After a lot of reading, I’ve decided that the bigger problem here than points of confusion, e.g. what is an appropriate sample size for a pilot study and when is a c-section appropriate, is that there seems to be a cultural bent towards the notion that the vagina/vaginal birth/birth is gross. I’m disappointed,…

While it is generally shitty for guys to give birthing advice to their ladies, I think this anecdote ain’t really representative of the business of being born as it has operated in the US for the past decade or so. Unnecessary C-sections occur much more regularly than they should, and the combination of screaming…

Yeah, all my peeps who work in maternity wards are really into this. I feel like all the responses that were like N=18?! need to get on board with the reality that clinical expertise is a real thing that is very valuable.

To even attempt to understand these lyrics, to even open yourself up to the idea that there are many different kinds of black experiences that bear different labels that folks might have to put in some effort to learn, is just too much for some people.

I hear this a lot in Eastern v. Western medicine conversations (which is an absurd premise, there is no wisdom in seeing them as dichotomous, the wisdom is knowing how each can benefit us.) I just always feel like I need to throw it out there that: