And what’s the bet that even if it had been brought to light, the finger fucking would have been treated as “just” that and not a big deal, when by many legal definitions it qualifies as rape as much as penetration with a penis would. See also Brock Turner’s crime, which way too many people for my taste suddenly…

I was raped as a preteen. I’d already experienced several instances of sexual violence, some with boys and one with a man. But looking back that shit was ubiquitous. One of my friends had a kid hold a knife to her throat until she let him grope her breasts. She wore loose tops for the rest of middle school after that, …

The symptoms may overlap but the drugs are different (as this article points out) and so are their methods of acting. 

No long term studies have been performed - because it’s a product that is less than a year old. NO ONE can definitively say what the long term effects are.

Lol what the fuck are you even talking about?

I was a month from my due date when pregnant people were added to the vaccine priority list. My doctor and I discussed it, and she felt that because I was so close to my due date, I should wait until after for the jab. I ended up being induced - when I was admitted to the hospital on a Monday, I tested negative for…

LOL they decided to reply to my comment twice. Thankfully Kinja allows for the dismissal of comments. Thanks, Kinja!

There’s a conspiracy theorist spouting nonsense in the Pending on this article. Should we make fun of this conspiracy theorist? Just wondering what the best Kinja protocol is nowadays.

Yes, the hyper-precaution around pregnancy goes hand-in-hand with the culture of personal responsibility of pregnancy outcomes. We know to do x/y/z and avoid p/q/r when pregnant, so any miscarriage or stillbirth or abnormality must be your fault. It’s the same old victim-blaming “what did you do to cause this?”…

It’s also insane to me how many otherwise intelligent, reasonable women are worried the vaccine will mess up their cycles and don’t bother doing enough research to realise that’s a risk with ANY vaccine, not just the covid shot, and so fucking what? It’s not a big deal. Your cycle goes out of whack once and then gets…

I received my first vaccination two days before I found out I was pregnant and my second shot in the middle of my pregnancy. My vaccine-hesitant father (he’s since had one shot) was horrified that would put myself and my baby at risk that way, but he had the decency to only express those feelings to other family…

Part of the problem is excluding pregnant people from trials, but part of it is also the amount of hysteria around pregnancy. Especially in the US. You guys really do treat it like a disease instead of a totally normal life stage. And the worst part is that attitude is spreading. 10 years ago, my friends in Europe…

Seriously? There are some Aboriginal people who would argue about ALL Indigenous people being eradicated from Tasmania (BTW Aboriginal and Indigenous mean the same thing).

I’m glad Tendler is finding the time and space to express herself and make silly videos, and I hope she gets a jillion followers, meets someone new, and is fabulously happy (same goes for Munn and Mulaney.) 

Its also radicalized so many men that there’s now a market for mass-market“alt-right comedy.” Netflix is seemingly trying to get into that but without the racism, so the only groups left to punch down to are women, both trans and cis. The problem with courting the Fox News crowd is that you become Fox News for it. Its…

You mean something like: Hannah Gadsby’s OZ, Episode 1: Interrogating the White View of Australian Colonial Art History (no-award.net) ?

The Trump Era has really left certain people with some unearned confidence that they will not be held to account for their vacuous positions. Set aside the need for people at the higher reaches of corporate power hierarchies to actually defend the marginalized rather than doubling-down on the antiquated ravings of…

Wow, get a grip. First of all, she has a docuseries where she frames the history of colonialism through an art history lens. Secondly, I am sure you listen to female white comedians right? You know, descendents of American colonialism resulting in indigenous people genocide? Pathetic take that punches down on someone…

Goddamn, Hannah Gadsby is great.