Around the Web…

Some links for your Monday afternoon:

• Can married people have opposite-sex best friends? — Jezebel
• In Japan, some workers are encouraged to go home and “multiply” — CNN.com
• Is public breastfeeding acceptable? — iReport.com
• Check out lilSugar’s extended interview series with Michelle Duggar — lilSugar
• Conception myths busted! — Health.com

Comments

I think women and men can be best friends. My best friend of 12 years is a guy (but he’s gay, so no threat to my husband-maybe that is the difference). My husband also has many girl friends from college that he is still close with, and I’ve become close with them too. I know that would not fly with alot of women though.

- April on January 26th, 2009

I’m with you April. My two best friends from HS were both guys. Now, years later, we still get together. Most of the time my husband is there and one of the guy’s fiancees, but not always. We also chat online. My husband really likes my friends and last time they were over, he spent more time with them than I did, haha. Likewise, my husband has a couple of close girlfriends from HS. I have no issue if he goes out with them, and once or twice I’ve met up with them 1:1 because now we’re friends too

- MZ on January 26th, 2009

The lilSugar interview with Michelle Duggar avoids some truths, I believe to save on controversy. The reason Michelle originally went off birth control was because she thought that birth control led to miscarriages, causing her to have one. She then felt selfish and went off her BC. There’s more detail on their family website, but I believe her science is flawed.

- Colleen on January 26th, 2009

I agree with you Colleen. The Pill doesn’t cause a miscarriage, it merely tricks the body into thinking it is already pregnant (you don’t ovulate and the egg doesn’t get fertilized). I believe their pastor was the one that told them the miscarriage was a result of the BC.

- Lilly on January 27th, 2009

Re – is public breastfeeding ok? Article – I love that so many people did a video response saying “Well, of course it is.”

I mean, honestly – if an individual has a problem with seeing breastfeeding, then this is something they need to work out themself – it in no way reflects the breastfeeding mother.
Of course it is decent to feed a baby anywhere just as it is any other human being eating anything else.
For someone to say that it is anything else reflects problems repressed in that certain individual.

- N.S on January 27th, 2009

I try and avoid anything to do with reading about the Duggars. Anyone who practices “blanket training” is a bad parent in my books!

- Lorus on January 28th, 2009