I am an XXy woman. I successfully conceived and delivered my child. I have naturally occurring high levels of testosterone. I am also a sofa schlub. There’s no way in hell I or my android pelvis could perform as well as the *LEAST* testosterone laden of the competitors.

To be fair, Europe back in the 70s and 80s was not exactly a cakewalk either.

This lady is Margaret Laurence personified. White/European people going into Africa, unasked, and shoving their horse shit all over the place. This lady ought to be a cautionary tale but the industries of NGO’s and travel colonialism is alive and well in sub-Saharan Africa. Europeans think nothing of black African…

Remember, this is the same police union that accused the mayor of Minneapolis of throwing gang symbols.

Don’t forget, women are the emotional ones!

What’s happened to Chelsea Manning and her treatment post arrest has been a crime against humanity. I do not understand how it’s allowed to stand, and how they’re allowed to continue to treat her that way.

It reminds me a lot of the work that Nellie Bly did and how it was received. This is a woman who faked insanity to investigate a mental institution at the turn of the century at grave personal risk and was dismissed as “stunt journalism." Bly easily could have gotten herself killed or worse to provide information of a…

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Unfortunately, many people with severe physical/learning/mental/emotional disorders have to simply make do because we don’t have a good system set up to assist them. She also could have had help from her family or friends or neighbors, or maybe she’s able to complete tasks like doing the wash, cooking, and cleaning.…

He’s trying to underline the point that immigrants are the ones who pose a violent threat to society.

he’s won by shifting the conversation in the Democratic party to the left-think about his arguments about social security, banks, public education, etc.

Not “sex.”

I hope that the author of this article sees my comment. Anyone reading this article and thinking, god, how awful, should read up on the Irish Catholic Church’s remedy for avoiding Caesarian sections so that Irish women wouldn’t be able to avoid repeat childbirth. Here is a link to a good article about the practice.…

I appreciated this when I saw it shared this weekend. Single working mom of 3 - my husband died 3 years ago so there’s no dad to take the kids on weekends or to pick up the slack. It’s incredibly hard and sometimes I just am desperate for someone - anyone - to actually understand. There’s no fix or real help that…

i like food porn like anybody else but sometimes you just need information, you know? why does everything have to be a fucking video?

Ah, I see where you’re coming from. It’s actually not quite that simple. I work for a different federal science agency. While yes, we do receive some funding from congressional appropriations (which, yes, funding levels are proposed by the current administration but are in fact much more subjected to the whims of…

From the CDC report: