Cost is an issue. We tend to buy 12 packs and keep them around, but it takes weeks to go through them. My husband and I have started splitting a can as well.

I still drink soda, but not nearly as much as I did just a few years ago. My husband is cutting back, too. Our kids are one reason, and the cost is another. The price of soda has really gone up in the last few years. Especially in vending machines - it is a $1.25 for a 20oz bottle here at work. If we go out, I…

YES. Home-grown feminism is far better than us invading and 'liberating' burka-clad women. This is perfect.

I love soda (Cherry Coke being my drug of choice) but have decreased my consumption over the years. I do drink more soda in the summer but it's down to maybe 1-2 a week. I know it's not good for you, but neither is Toddlers and Tiaras and that doesn't stop me from tuning in every now and then.

I grew up in Bombay in the 80s and the 90s of which puberty was attained in the mid nineties, so I'd like to think that it was not that long ago and surely a long shot from the times of my mother and her mother. But I was privy to the menstruation shaming as well, albeit in a more subtle way. First of all, my mother…

I think that whole meth teeth thing is bullshit. I've been drinking Diet Dr. Pepper for 20 years and my teeth are fine. Both of them.

Been done. Although to be technical, Dust wears a Niqab.

I want to take this story on a tour of California Wine Country. I want to run towards it in slow motion through a field of daisies. I want to feed it champagne and strawberries under a full moon in a hot tub. I love it that much.

I love that Haroon has made the invisible-ness of the burka a key part of the superhero - a great example of using a symbol of oppression as a strength. "I thank you for the mask of anonymity!"

Look out, she's got a weapon!

You know what? I think this is kind of cool. They're leveraging their own culture in a way (while also clearly taking in influences from outside, like anime and ninja) that lets them have a positive message while also saying, "this stuff exists."

Dammit, now I've got this song stuck in my head.

I go to India regularly. The biggest problem is that there are no public washrooms available, and if there are, there are no garbage cans or decent places to dispose of feminine products. I had a nervous breakdown the last time I was there because after looking for a washroom for 2 hours (no exaggeration) I found a…

Another obvious fix would be to provide all girls with a detachable penis at birth, one that could neatly fit into a purse, pocket, or fanny pack. That way, when approached later in life and confronted for being woman-like, they can just pull out the detachable penis, waive it in the air, and proudly say, "No, no, no.…

There is a great, great organisation called Huru that has been providing schoolgirls in Kenya with reusable/washable sanitary pads, and info on puberty and sex ed, so that they don't have to miss school due to their periods or use unsafe materials or worry about the prohibitive cost of pads. They totally deserve…

This post made me think this old Goodness Gracious Me clip. I haven't thought of that show in a long time. But I do often refer to tampons as "that thing for that thing." Nobody gets it.

But Mr Hall! I was surfing the Crimson Wave! I had to haul ass to the ladies.

The red jello on the table when she says "crimson landslide"! The pencil-snap! Best of all, the fart! Goddamn, I really miss the British sense of humour.

I'm so awed; it's like a huge COTD in ad form.