" And women and mothers, working or not, continue to bear the brunt of domestic responsibility, and as much as the magazines make motherhood look pretty, and it often is awesome, it's also fucking hard, and we're tired..."

and who gives a shit? Remember that whole Choice biz - how women are completely and thoroughly and always always always 100 percent awesomly in charge and control of their body? Guess what, Lynn: that choice doesn't end when your placenta spills over the OR table - your little burden is YOURS and when I see someone like YOU taking three seats on the subway because their stroller also serves as a pushcart for far more items than just baby things - when I see your spawn running around the train, or screaming on the train or running around a restaurant - or whatever - I blame YOU - not your boyfriend or hubby because YOU and only you - always always always YOU - made this choice so YOU bear the burden of your choice - and that means all the shit that goes with it...

happy mother's day...

perhaps if she were as pretty as your son...

don't you read ethnic literature? If not, can I recomend Chimanda Adichie, or Ha Jin or Yiyun Li? They describe - in a nice multicultural fashion, the disdain familes have for girl children...

because we all celebrated the birsthof my Neice 20 years ago - I don't recall any disparaging comments or wishes for a boy...

Women are MORE pro-life then men. What makes you think an all-women party would meet your interests?

I think we're on the cusp of a historic health care bill. I think this will help me and my family - and I'm not willing to trash it so women like Kate Harding - who won't be effected by this amendment, can act like they just shaved her head, tattooed her wrist, and lined her up for the ovens...

you're a fool...

plain and simple.

This amendment - while ugly, effects VERY FEW women - you're rolling around and screming based on a symbolic clusterfuck that will hurt some women (and, maybe even the men who care about them), but after the LAST administration to pretend that it would be okay - even as we struggle to try to work out of a horrific economic downturn and TWO wars, it's incredible that you would sell us out so some chick can abort her baby on the company dime...

this is not about making abortion illegal - it's about WHO PAYS FOR IT...

and it's not even law...

maybe you prefer no health care refomr at all?

tee Hee - you know how dem po' white wome suffer so! Just like dem darkies and homos - EXACTLY the same.

you should be ashamed of yurself...

What bullshit - this amendment will effect so few women as to claim it a "devastating setback for women's rights" hysterical nonsense.

Nonsense.

Most women - certainly those like Kate Harding, will NEVER use a public option - her abortions are covered by her PRIVATE insurance.

look - we all hate this amendment, but to pretend that this is an attack on women BY men - when WOMEN hold ALL the keys to the electorate, is a devastating setback for intelligence and common sense...

correct - abortion should be legal, but's it's repugnant. that's called freedom.

it's like pornography - we all know it should be legal- but much of it is sickening...

Absolutely not...

You fucking right-wing facists!

I love my progressives, but sometimes you sound like such assholes...

wrong and wrong - google Suze Randall - for instance...

When Christians tell us how evil it is... or when men decide that "sexworkers" are stupid exploited sluts...

I could never stomach lamont's phony Christ nonsense, and this is just childish drivel - notice how she doesn't say WHAT Obama is supposed to do - because he can only SIGN legislation - not create it. Obama is the president - not, as soneone said, the emperor. I'm positive that if he was handed a bill with single payer, 100 percent universal coverage, he'd sign it - but he has to get the bill. Lamont is a phony (and shitty) writer...

as bad as any of the phony and shitty writers on the right...

does this mean that women's right's groups are reactionary antimen?

didn't think so...

I'm a trained attorney - have spent tens of thousands of dollars learning how to argue points that may even be abhorrent to me, but when I hear a meanie say something mean about gays - or when I hear someone disagree with me politically, by saying, perhaps, that a particular country should be bombed, I slam my door like a petulant bitch and want to cry. I expect to be an excellent litigator in the future.

what do you think?

run, don't walk...

and the ladies love HIM....

What bullshit. Gays are free to marry in every state of the Union. If you're concerned about the unfairness regarding gay marriage, just refuse the BENEFITS that come with marriage - you know what they are. Other than that, you're full of shit...

Hey Tracy - I'm a progressive - and I'm married - and your article is just ass-clownery! You have it wrong anyway - Gays are free to marry - show me ONE law that can stop them. If "progressives" want to be fair to their gay friends, they should refuse the legal entitlements that hetro marriage brings to the table - file your taxes separately - keep your own names (though gays can probably legally change theirs to match their partner's last name) - then you're being fair and honest (i'm not - but I don't pretend that being a progressive means reaching out to the lowest common denominator - when "real" progressives - like tracy - refuses her paycheck because there's income inequality - then we'll talk).