According to the National Health Service, there has been an increase in the number of women who have reported suffering trauma during their labour, and who are now afraid to go through labour again.
This fear has been labelled tocophobia, and has lead to an increase in requests for Cesareans, which obviously has medical professionals worried:
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I have heard many strange things in my twenty-seven years on this planet, but none as heinous and selfish as this particular story.
A recently married couple living Minneapolis, Minnesota, has set up a polling website in an effort to determine a big life …
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Never get in the way of teenagers and their fashion choices—NEVER, unless you’re prepared to face their wrath.
A school in Pennsylvania has banned the ever-so-popular adornment of those rubber “I love boobies” bracelets. School officials say that the bracelets are demeaning and distracting and have prompted male students to make inappropriate …
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The Special Prison for Women in Tiruchi, India has just opened a part-time library for the prisoners to use. Although the library currently has only 500 books and is staffed by a temporary worker, the city library will provide more materials if there is a high enough demand – which seems likely as the inmates welcomed the library with enthusiasm:
“The women were really happy over the opening of the library. We have supplied them mostly books on topics such as self-motivation, biographies of women achievers and self-development.”
The women also attended a lecture by a former college administrator who wanted to let them know they could make …
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Giving new meaning to the phrase “Watch what you eat,” Pennsylvania’s Elizabeth Mort and Alex Rodriguez had their newborn daughter Isabella taken by children’s services because Mort flunked a drug test. Which, if you listen to Mort (and the ACLU, natch), was a misunderstanding caused by a poppy-seed bagel.
From AOL News:
[Isabella Rodriguez] was born on April 27 at Jameson Hospital’s North Campus in Lawrence County. Before the birth, per hospital policy, Mort was required to submit a urine sample for drug testing. She agreed to the test but reportedly …
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Texas Republican Representative Louie Gohmert has another crazy line to add to his resume. He recently appeared on Fox News’ Fox and Friends and told host Gretchen Carlson that terrorists plan to use women’s tampons to sneak explosives onto airplanes.
Yes. This is what we’re talking about today.
Gohmert said that he learned of this plot when he was on a flight from Texas to D.C.:
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This past weekend, Molly Worthen wrote a piece for The New York Times Magazine entitled “Housewives of God” about the rising role of women in the Evangelical community. Women have always been a part of the church in various roles, but these women are not organizing potlucks or fundraising; they’re taking an active role as leaders. Worthen describes this growing movement of women who believe their relationships with their husbands are “complementarian,” which I suppose is another way to say “equal,” except these relationships don’t really …
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This is a bit of a sad story. The results of a new survey by the Royal College of Midwives (RCM), here in the UK, shows that two-thirds of new mothers have felt ‘a degree of coercion’ to slim back to their pre-pregnancy size as soon as possible after giving birth.
A report, produced by the [...]
When Mark Twain finished his autobiography, he stipulated that it could not be published until 100 years after his death. The manuscript, which has been available to scholars at the University of California Berkeley archives, has recently been published and it contains several allegations that may damage his reputation as a leftist and a feminist. [...]
The use of weapons in police-ridden situations is pretty common place.
The use of sex toys as weapons? Not so much.
Apparently, though, it does happen! In what news outlets are calling a “bizarre” incident, a 56-year-old woman attempted …
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Meet Joshua Simon Ashby, the twenty-year-old douchebag who took it upon himself to post a naked picture of his ex-girlfriend on Facebook because he was in a jealous drunken rage after she called off their 5 month relationship.
Asshat, meet the readers, readers … What an asshat.
As a result of his bad judgement, he has been [...]
In the midst of online bullying horror stories and trolls making appearances in the majority of comment threads on anything meaningful, it’s nice to remember that the internet can also be used for good.
The folks at Voltier Creative have put together a list of good deeds accomplished by the commenters over Reddit.com. Reddit’s commenting format [...]
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