Yeah, I mean as a pale, big-boobed person myself I can say that it’s actually a pretty terrible beach combo. There is no way to apply sunscreen to one’s ample cleavage without it looking anything less than pornographic.

I don’t see how “hey, don’t use instruments that can result in catastrophic cancer throughout the entire abdomen if there’s a known mass that we didn’t biopsy before the procedure to figure out if it would be safe” should be somehow responsible for trans men not being able to access gender confirmation surgery. The…

I’m not giving the disclaimer any more - I know there are good doctors but this shit is too widespread to revert to the “a few bad apples” argument.

This article is tragic and I hope her fight goes on well and succeeds. I can’t help but feel the overall issue is the deference to doctors and their “God complex,” dislike of being challenged or questioned, disregard for women’s personal choice and agency and just an environment of unexamined, all-knowing authority…

I had grapefruit-sized fibroids that nearly caused me to bleed to death (literally—my hemoglobin count dropped to 4.1). Instead of a hysterectomy, I opted for uterine fibroid embolization, a non-invasive procedure that cuts off the blood supply to the fibroids. The symptoms lifted immediately, it was done under…

Eight years ago my mom was diagnosed with a benign fibroid that ended up being this cancer. When my mom was having the “fibroid” removed (it wasn’t diagnosed until after its removal), she had a choice between using this device or having the more invasive, traditional surgery. She chose the latter.

Oh man this is heartbreaking. I can’t imagine both of them, with the backgrounds they have, getting this news and instantly knowing what it meant.

Normally I’m 100% on board. But there are a couple shows (The Wire, DS9) that I am constantly recommended that I just can’t motivate myself to watch. I think in this case a list is really helpful to at least get me started, so it doesn’t feel so daunting. And likely, if the show speaks to people, they’ll give up the…

This is so useful. I have watched Parks & Rec more times than I can count but I always skip the first season and start in S2 closer to when Rob Lowe & Adam Scott are introduced.

Because what, blond, thin, and white? Meanwhile, their noses, ears, eyes, eyebrows, chin, lips, and cheeks don’t match.

Yes, but there’s a later retreat from that adventurous eating. At about 12-18 months old, toddlers will become reluctant to try new things and even withdraw from things they used to eat out of survival instinct. Newly mobile tiny humans are going to stick to the safe, non-plant looking stuff so that as they toddle…

So this is obviously down the list from the dead and injured and their loved ones. But I also feel really badly for Ariana. Her name is forever linked to a tragedy and that can not be easy.

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You may be joking but I never mentioned religion, that was your assumption. Anyway, no real followers of Islam were involved in this. If anything it’s those that twist the teachings into a complex pretzel of misguided falsehoods.

So. Smarter, more eloquent people than me have given condolences. I’m going to let them do that. I have a very specific bone to pick.

Now if we can get adults to stop pretending “juicing” is healthy.

A lot if people don’t realise that many older people of color were not born at hospitals and do not have birth certificates. For instance, Viola Davis was born in her grandmother house on a plantation in South Carolina. Also many women’s birth certificates do not show their current legal name.

I would have cared, a lot, as a child. Being able to remove the dolls clothes was very important. I also think it sends a really bad message to young girls that there’s a part of the doll’s body that needs a, well, essentially a chastity belt.

I recently bought some cute, anatomically correct, highly detailed cloth…

I mean, the reason kids play with dolls like this is to change their clothes. Not being able to take off the underwear would piss most kids off, not just adult collectors. I speak as the parent of two small children. We only have knockoff dolls, but changing underwear is a key part of the whole outfitting…

Learned my how to argue in your marriage is key. Avoiding or nuclear war are not sustainable options.