But...she's a journalist? Aren't journalists supposed to do research before they write stuff? Or are we going to continue holding journalists to a lower standard?

Actually there are interesting cases of children of parents who get treatment against their parent's religious-based objections. The whole minor-in-treatment area is fraught with medical ethics issues.

Yeah, I was pretty horrified when I first saw this case, because I feel strongly about an individual's right to refuse treatment, and 17 seems old enough to make that decision. But when I saw the ignorant quotes from the mother, I started to feel the state had made the right call. If that's the kind of information…

I read that. I fully support the right to refuse treatment. But only if you truly understand the consequences. I don't think these people do. There seems to be some magical thinking going on. Yes, chemo can cause damage. So can cancer. She and her mother may not refuse treatment until they understand she could die. I…

As a CT native and a health care professional, this situation disturbs me. My college health care ethics course emphasized autonomy, beneficence, non-maleficence, and justice as the four key tenets of medical ethics. This case and the behavior of the health care professionals involved doesn't seem to be doing a great…

at first I was dubious about how I feel about this. But reading that, these are just stupid people afraid of science. This is what anti-intellectualism gets you, America.

I heard an interview with her mother this morning and she said, "This isn't about death, she's not going to die without the chemo." So, uh, yeah, I don't trust the mother's sanity.

This. Yes - he doesn't have to be in the front row of a pro-choice protest. At minimum, don't participate in problematic conversations with other men; but to even start to get on the path to feminism, you need to stand up for women in a crowd of men.

My dad is the feminist who doesn't know he's a feminist. And, holy shit, don't you dare call him a feminist. (but he's totally a feminist)

Does he need to be actively fighting for social, political and economic justice for women — and for all people, really — to identify as a feminist? (Not necessarily. But if he's doing that, great.)

Actual male feminists are the greatest! Like my dad, who did most of the parenting and showed me from birth that gender roles are bullshit. Or my friend who set me straight a long time ago when I said something truly ignorant about, "How can it be rape if the person doesn't try to say no or resist?" Or like a lot of…

My husband falls clearly under the "Feminist Who Doesn't Know He's A Feminist Until You Tell Him." He does fully 50% of the child-rearing (when he comes home our daughter becomes his shadow), and also does the majority of cooking/ cleaning/ shopping because I'm so damn sick all the time. If I was physically able to…

I've dated a guy who screamed from the mountaintops that he was a feminist, the kind of dude who gets hard from debating and "playing devil's advocate" and I've dated a guy who said on our first date something to the effect of "yeah, but I don't want to be an asshole who bursts into a women's movement and tries to…

I like to think of myself as a feminist. I would never take my fiancé's last name though. I am not insisting she take mine either.

I went to see Guardians of the Galaxy with my husband. The first time Chris Pratt was on screen without his shirt, I was like, "Damn Chris Pratt!" My husband turned to me, looked back at the screen and said, "Yeah, I guess I can't argue with you. That is an attractive man."

you had me at Chris Pratt.... swoon...

Someone on Jez recently said having a kid is like raising a dog who eventually talks, and it's so true (in the best way)! They come out of you unable to do jack shit, and then when they start to understand words and communicate like a human person it's mind blowing. "You're talking?! You used to be a lump! I love…

He's probably depressed, what with being unemployed and everything. A job is a big part of a man's identity, and when he can't bring home the bacon, he feels emasculated. You should have some compassion for him! He's probably really struggling here! And anyway, is a little extra housework such a big deal that you'd…

Ah - the answer there, as I am learning, is the "we." "We" to you means your husband. To him, "we" means you. I have the hardest time avoiding this kind of speech structure - my husband always calls me out on it, frustrated. "Why don't you just say you want me to do it?" It's a work in progress, but I'm getting better…

Also note that the first letter of every paragraph spells out KIRBY DELAUTER. Genius.