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Monthly Archives: March 2015

12 Women With Perfect Responses for Why They Don’t Have Kids

21 Saturday Mar 2015

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In a classic Seinfeld episode, Elaine sits surrounded by friends with kids as they accost her with the now-infamous line: “You gotta have a baby!” We can only guess millions of women watched, nodding their heads and wondering: What do you say when society demands to know when you’ll procreate, and why you haven’t done so yet?

Even as more millennials choose to delay children or remain child-free altogether, the demand on women to have babies is still high. Media has doubled down on celebrity “baby bump” coverage, and young women report feeling real pressure thanks to society’s strong link between femininity and motherhood.

Many women indeed long for children, while others are firmly against it and still more are undecided. But regardless of a woman’s feelings on childbearing, the decision to have kids is hers alone, to be decided for her own reasons. And no woman should have to submit to society’s relentless questioning on the matter.

Here are 12 women who had the perfect responses to the dreaded baby questions.

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Jada Pinkett-Smith’s Comments Miss the Point About Male Sexuality

12 Thursday Mar 2015

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If we took a peek inside the male brain, what would we find? Jada Pinkett-Smith — and society at large — is pretty sure it’d be sex, sex and more sex. Something the ladies would know nothing about, right?

During an appearance on Late Night With Seth Meyers on Thursday, the Magic Mike XXL star said being constantly surrounded by the “tastiness” of her nearly nude male costars helped her, as a woman, finally understand what it’s like to be ruled by another “head.” That is, a little guy “down there” who demands relentless procreation. Pinkett-Smith said:

“That was the moment I was like, I feel really bad for guys, because all day long, you’re constantly dealing with that kind of stimulation.”

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9 Things All People in Long-Distance Relationships Know to Be True

04 Wednesday Mar 2015

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Leah, 25, from Arizona, was hesitant when she first began developing feelings for Stephen, a 22-year-old from Northern Ireland she met on the photo-sharing app Fling. Long-distance relationships are hard, she knew, and she worried that she would hold him back in his everyday life. But they decided to give it a try, and six months later, they’re still going strong.

Online dating and tools like FaceTime and Skype, not to mention a tough job market that forces people to move more, have made long-distance relationships more common than ever. The U.S. Census Bureau estimates that 3.6 million married Americans are living apart (a 40% increase since 1999), and the former Center for the Study of Long Distance Relationships puts the number of college students in LDRs at 4.4 million.

For couples like Leah and Stephen, it can really work. “The biggest positive surprise has been that we have made this work for so long already,” Leah told Mic, “and that I have discovered what love really is.”

It sounds cheesy, but it’s true: The challenges of LDRs end up revealing what really matters in a relationship, long-distance or otherwise. Here are the things you learn after living with your love hundreds of miles away.

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