For all the rape victims who are fans of Serena and consider her a role model and an aspirational human being, considering many of you are victims of rape and sexual violence, I would like to tell you that no matter what she says, it is never, ever your fault. Ever. More
For reasons I won’t get into, I wasn’t raised with my mother, which made Mother’s Day difficult for me to begin with. But sitting on the sidelines while other kids made cards for their moms made it even harder. So I have sympathy for the school in Halifax, Nova Scotia that decided to do away with both Mother’s and Father’s day, instead choosing to follow the “International Day of Families” which is celebrated on May 15th. More
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Well, this is definitely a new tidbit in the “fetuses feel pain” abortion conversation. Fetuses “feel pleasure,” according to Michael Burgess, a former OBGYN who is also a member of the GOP Doctors Caucus. And therefore, that’s a reason to ban late-term abortion after 22 weeks. Expecting moms, this is why you have trouble sleeping at night. Too much self-love in the womb. More
I don’t expect celebrity tales of romance and divorce to be civil — or even remotely functional. These are people with egos the size of continents, with mirroring bank accounts, who spend a good chunk of the year away from their partners making the money for those bank accounts, usually by being around obscenely attractive people. Generally, those ingredients do not for a solid partnership make. But how sucky would it be to hear from your husband that’s he’s divorcing your ass via text message? Why, let’s ask Katy Perry! More
I find the current state of kid’s TV to be positively abysmal. Especially when my tween-age daughter tunes into most of the shows found on The Disney Channel and Nickelodeon. I Hate (with a capitol H) the way adults are portrayed on these shows. Apparently Bill Cosby agrees with me.
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Ever since it was reported that Kim Kardashian delivered Kanye West‘s baby five weeks early, Mommyish readers have been having nothing short of a heyday throwing around hypothetical baby names. Some of my favorite readers threw around such gems as Kadence, Kash Kow, Konda Kimye, Kardinal West. According to Media Takout’s notoriously incorrect sleuthing, you guys weren’t too far off. More
Before my fiancé got his reverse vasectomy for me, of course we chatted about having a baby together. He was into it, if only because he had always dreamed of having three children and a boy. He already had two girls. But I will admit that it did take some convincing. It must have, looking back, because I wrote out a list of “vows” on his iPhone in order to help convince him that having another child would be so easy and fun (HA HA HA HA!)
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In 2002 when he was in high school, Brian Banks was accused of raping Wanetta Gibson after she claimed he dragged her into a stairway at Polytechnic High School and raped her. Wanetta and her mother sued the Long Beach Unified School District claiming that the school was an “unsafe environment” and won a 1.5 million dollar settlement. Brian, who was facing a possible 41 years to life sentence, accepted a plea deal and spent five years in prison. In 2011, Wanetta sent Brian a Facebook message asking him to “let bygones be bygones” and after meeting with him, she admitted she made the entire story up. Five years in prison and four years wearing an ankle bracelet on probation, he was finally exonerated and has now been signed to play for the Atlanta Falcons. Brian’s story is valid, but very, very rare as far as rape accusations go. More
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I can remember thinking that I got along with boys better, I was somehow more comfortable with them because teen girl friendships seemed fraught with all sorts of ickiness – competition for other boys, cattiness regarding other girls and each other, obsessions with appearances and social status and all sorts of other things I just didn’t want to deal with at the time. In retrospect, I’m sure I just felt left out and maybe due to my parent’s divorce I was seeking out boy friendships in order to compensate for the lack of a male figurehead in my life. I don’t know, but I do know that I wish I would have had more girlfriends, and I want to do everything possible in order for my own daughter to have them. More
For those of you who don’t EBF or don’t have kids, finding a place to nurse in public is kind of like hunting for a bathroom when you’re two steps away from pooping your pants: each passing second holds the potential for disaster. More
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For sale: One slightly used 14-year-old (Babble)
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Will space flight affect your reproductive organs? (The Hairpin)
10 wedding trends that came from the internet (The Frisky)
How do I get over resentment from my ex? (Your Tango)
Bon Appetit suggests Fortune 500 CEO and grillmaster are men’s jobs (HuffPo Women)
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Maybe that’s why they don’t wanna kiss her, because they are kinda embarrassed. Thinking about your mom “going all night” is creepy, I don’t care who she is. And I won’t be seeing the new Smurfs movie, unless one of you tells me it is totally amazing and a cinematic masterpiece and the best thing ever. But even then I don’t think I will believe you. More
A daycare worker in Ohio has been charged with drugging delicious, delicious cupcakes to get the children in her daycare to sleep during the day but she says it was all a total joke and that she was just kidding. This story involves two of my all time favorite things, which are cupcakes and naps, but dude, if this woman was joking she needs to realize it’s totally not funny and she could end up in a whole heap of trouble. More
