I mean, to some extent. The instagram “celebrities” do a lot of that shit, but that’s more for the sponsorship money. And the thin-bias of our society means actors do need to keep fit, so there’s some visibility that’s inevitable with that because their whole lives are so visible.

Goop has glamorized orthorexia so much, it’s really maddening.

I got actual sex-ed in school, though it wasn’t very robust (I remember learning about puberty and reproduction and contraception, but we spent WAY more time on, like, the food pyramid), but I did get this shamey shit in Sunday School. It wasn’t the gum/candy thing, though. One kid’s dad was a doctor, and he came in…

oh, that’s just great.

ooh, thanks for the tip!!

Yep, Portugal. Here’s some good reading to start with:

Spain did this (not the whole country - just one state/region as a pilot project, and now that I think about it, it might have been Portugal...it’s been a few years since I read about it). The region was extremely economically depressed and had a huge drug problem, and I think the leaders were just like FUCK IT, we’re…

In Vancouver, anyway, the way it works is that the site is safe and clean, but not particularly nice (you don’t want to glamorize it). Each individual gets a sort of booth, so there’s some privacy, but they aren’t full-on rooms or anything like that. There are new needles and other paraphernalia available. The drugs…

I had a prof in college whose German immigrant parents named her Betty - as in Boop - because it was the most American-sounding name they could think of. It caused her endless embarrassment. I thought it was sweet.

I bump on it a little bit, too, but in real life the only people I know who were given informal names it was in honor of someone deeply loved who’d died shortly before the birth.

So, his name is just Archie? Not Archibald?

Oh my god, honey, get thee to a better doctor!!! That incontinence issue is fixable, but the longer you wait the harder and more complicated it’s going to get.

Apropos of Titus, but nothing else really, and just because I know y’all would appreciate this - I did a set of brief reviews of books I failed to finish, as Titus, using GIFs, and it remains one of my favorites. Please enjoy. :)

Vera Wang at Kohl’s! It’s better and cheaper (when on sale, which it always is, because Kohl’s).

Ladies! Vera Wang’s intimates collection for Kohl’s. Because it’s Kohl’s, it’s *always* on sale, so I can usually get one for $20-35, depending on how good of a coupon/sale I’ve got going on. They’re basically a better version of Body by Victoria. Light padding - not enough to give you anything “extra,” just enough to…

It’s not even dressed up.

I’m a medical malpractice lawyer. In civil law, our burden of proof is “preponderance of evidence” which just means more likely than not, as opposed to “beyond a reasonable doubt” as in criminal law. We frequently are asked to review cases involving a miscarriage or stillbirth where the family believes the health care…

Ha! After my sister’s first kid was born, she asked me to bring her her first post-birth meal to the hospital. She requested an Angry Whopper meal from Burger King (I don’t know if they do those anymore - remember them from the early 2000s? They had jalapenos and pepperjack cheese and shit and were supposed to be mega…

All absolutely true. Now that I think about it, that was probably just a knee-jerk reaction for me. I was off work for 2 months for a medical leave, and was kind of phoning it in for a few months before that, so I hadn’t made much effort appearance-wise for a long time. I typically wear heels at least 50% of the time,…