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How did I not know this? What the what?
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"Her pants were off, she must have wanted it!"
12/02/09
Text messaging isn't the easiest thing in the world to do.
Telephone keyboard only have a dozen or so keys, and since there's 26 possible letters plus punctuation marks, one usualy has to strike a key several times in order to produce a single letter.
It takes a minute ot two to type and send a short message.
Yeah, you can get these new-fangled phones with a full keyboard now. It would take me less than a minute and a half to type out that message and some people could do it a lot faster.
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Two other particularly awful themes:
"So she was being raped and could text at the same time? Sure..."
"She must have had a part in this...
A huge F off to everyone in that comment section.
11/26/09
I'm 8 months pregnant, and when I found out that labor doula would cost $800, I got my husband a book on being a supportive birth partner, and told him he's my doula. I think we'll be fine.
11/26/09
Seems like this doctor is saying that we should make rules based on the idea that men are less mature than six-year-old children.
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I don't see a reason a father can't provide that. My husband certainly can, and I'm going to want a face I know when I'm at the hospital, scared, in pain, and at the whim of whoever is attending that day.
Some of his reasoning is patently offensive as well. Men can't handle the emotional parts of birth? They can't handle seeing their wives in pain that's natural and normal (and in the case of a woman that wants a natural birth, something she wants to go through)?
Surely that's the result of underlying patriarchal norms that are better being gotten rid of, is it not? Plus, if a man can't handle a birth, who is to say that he can handle a baby even if he's not in the delivery room?
11/25/09
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I don't get it either. Should be up to individual parties and if there is a woman who doesn't want her male partner in there with her but feels pressured, then there is likely bigger issues at play that need to be dealt with.
11/25/09
And as far as the "Oxytocin is the love drug which helps the woman give birth and bond with her baby. But it is also a shy hormone and it does not come out when she is surrounded by people and technology" goes? I think it's bogus. As bogus as the "You're body produces oxytocin during sex, so don't have sex with too many boys otherwise you'll run out of oxytocin to help you bond to your true love." myth.