1. That’s been around forever. It didn’t start with HIMYM.

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They claim it’s mostly from improper facial posture, e.g. breathing through an open mouth instead of nose, and that the role of food is in reducing jaw strength through reducing chewing.

No one is going under the knife. The Mews encourage people to adopt proper facial posture so your jaw doesn’t sag like you’ve had a stroke. I haven’t read the Times piece but I have seen a few Mewing videos and people here are completely missing the point.

Fewer.

Biology is bigotry. Reproductive biology especially.

Nothing about how Feminist Current is still growing? And joined by other gender-critical blogs and websites (and YouTube channels)? Hey, at least you mentioned its existence. I was surprised at even that much, so I’m actually grateful.

How much are they paying you to publish such one sided and uninformed ideas? Yes, kids should be allowed to be themselves. But developmentally, young children have no idea how biological categories even work, let alone sex vs gender stereotypes vs personality. Puberty blockers can have nasty side effects, and once you…

I came across a woman (Cimi Gates, from Portland, iirc - dunno if she still does this) at a psychic fair in Vancouver once, a long time ago (2001?), and she said I was covered with entities, like being splashed all over with mud. I did a session with her over the phone and wasn’t sure if anything had changed, except I…

Hormone blockers are not 100% safe. No drug is 100% safe. There is a long list of nasty side effects from Lupron, for example, including skeletal problems and sterility. I don’t have the list handy, but a quick trip to an online support group for those who have experienced harm from hormone blockers can provide the…

I honestly thought the headline meant he literally ate a cardboard box, on a dare or something. Lost bet?

Do you have any hobbies or outside interests? Having something you do on the side that has meaning for you can make those tedious jobs better because you can save your energy for your passion. In other words, give yourself a job on the side.

More women than men have PTSD, and we don’t go around raping people because of it. Mostly we take it out on ourselves.

In The Language of Clothes (which had me in stitches by the time I got to Valentino), Alison Lurie makes a case for clothes resembling our environments. Men in London wore top hats when there were lots of chimneys, then switched to bowlers as street lights came in, etc. And of course, black, blue and grey in the city…

I loved this article too. It was a nice change from all the stressful politics etc., and I like hearing about women in STEM and what they’re up to.

That exercise sounds a lot better than the one I did about 18 years ago where the other person just touched us wherever they felt like while our eyes were closed so we could experience “trust”. I’m glad you were able to talk about it with them and get them to back off. I would not be able to do the one you described…

Well, it’s rather hard to take out Chads and Stacys with a van - the younger more mobile people were able to get out of his way in time, so of course he killed more seniors. At least he didn’t have a gun.

Is she sexy because she’s sexy, or sexy because she’s smart, powerful, confident, and fun to be around? Sexy as a side effect of everything else is just fine. Sexy as the first and most important thing makes her a pinup.

Someone invited me to one of their (esp at the time) intro sessions. I got there and everyone was so friendly I thought “this must be a cult”. Googled it later and I was right. This was probably around the same time you encountered them, maybe 2008.

There are individualistic cults now. (I wish I were joking.)