As I woman, I have more to fear from straight men than from any other group. I’d rather use a public restroom with only women and trans women. I’m not pee and poop shy. I’ll pee and poop wherever. However, I don’t want to be in a public restroom with my panties down where men can come in there. I watch enough…

I have two problems with all bathrooms being gender neutral (and I’m talking about bathrooms with multiple stalls): 1) Men are dangerous. I don’t want to be in a confined space with my pants down where there’s a strange man right next to me. The more I have to do that, the higher my chances of being assaulted or at…

Listening to Claire and you might be a spirit animal much sooner than you want.

The danger of homemade infused oils.

“refrigerate for up to a week”

While infused oils can be done safely, using fresh ingredients is a HUGE botulism risk and can lead to a horrible death.

Gotta be careful about botulism when you're using fresh herbs. Use within a week. I believe you can put your fresh herbs in a food dehydrator to remove the water content.

I’m glad to hear that there are hospitals moving in this direction, but my experience and the experiences of my friends (in Arizona, so...) is that they largely are not. I had two home births, and then a third which ended in a hospital transfer.

You can have complicated views on medical care.

Teaching hospitals are great for this, and do practice a LOT more evidence based care. Private hospitals are more of a mixed bag, and you see a lot more of these attitudes there. As an OB nurse, I trained in a teaching hospital, then moved to a private one - huge difference! As a CNM student, I trained at a teaching…

Why introduce unnecessary risk,

I’m in a similar situation and have found OBG’s by and large seem to fall into 2 types: the ones who are more respectful of patient autonomy and evidence-based (these tend to be under 50 and female), whereas in the second category there are still a lot of the authoritarian types who “we’ve always done it this way” -…

My sister is a midwife and a mother of 4 boys. I am extremely proud of her. The care and attention she gives her patients is unprecented and unrealistic to expect from an OB. She often spends 24 hours at a mothers home. When the mother calls, she comes. If there is a birth even possible in the next month, she won’t…

Yes! Yes! Yes! Drives me up the wall. I’m cool with sharing the road, PROVIDED WE ALL OBEY THE SAME RULES.

I can’t speak for all types of stretches for all people in all cases, but when I suffered through a bout of plantar fasciitis, a steady routine of targeted stretching was the only effective treatment. Now that I’m more attuned to minor pains in my feet, I notice that if I get lazy with my stretching the pain begins to…

This is a good guide to stretching muscles, but when you stretch, you also stretch tendons and ligaments. What does stretching do for them?

I have plantar fasciitis, and I have to stretch my feet when I get up in the morning, or it hurts to walk. I have no idea what I’m actually stretching or why that helps, though.

I hated this article with the heat of a thousand suns.

The person that did my last tattoo (on my right outer calf) has a no necks/no hands policy unless the person requesting the tattoo already has a lot of others or voices a good, solid understanding of why neck tattoos can be problematic. His thing is that neck tattoos have a certain amount of stigma attached to them…

People don’t seem to get the give-and-take that comes with tattoo artists and clients. You can get exactly what you want...but it’s still their work. Their art, part of their repertoire! They have every right to refuse a job, just like as a photographer I have every right to refuse a job that I don’t see fit for me. I…

I hate to be Team Tattoo Artist, but just like you can decide where you want your tattoos, he can also decide what work he’ll stand behind and what he WON’T. Clearly you have artistic differences, as evident by your contempt of his other work. So why would you use him in the first place?