I’m still so mad about this. I had a nurse who kept putting her hand on my perineum to “stretch” it during contractions. I kept asking her to stop. She said she “had” to do it, but it was hurting and causing me to recoil away from her, which was really not helpful for pushing. I’m still so mad that I didn’t make a…

Before I start this story is going to be weird. I was incarcerated for a brief period of time in my youth. My mother is a lapsed Catholic and never took us to church so I know nothing about Catholicism. I was waiting to meet with my public defender on a Wednesday and a fellow inmate sat next to me. She had a black X…

Hm, so it seems like I did understand the line and I’m confused as to how “college doesn’t matter” is an included statement. Oh well.

College doesn’t really matter? Do you mean which college you go to doesn’t necessarily matter? Because having a degree definitely matters in a lot of careers.

“We knew people had died there, but it was the ‘80s” is the best synopsis of that decade I can think of.

The Defunctland episode is real good:

“His justification reminds me of Thomas Middleditch, who recently outed himself as someone who coerced his wife into an open marriage.”

Far from apologizing, I think complicity is a perfectly acceptable word to use. Because every system of oppression survives because it turns some of the oppressed into collaborators, by doling out privileges and rewards, to create a hierarchy among the oppressed that prevents real unity of purpose, because those who…

This! In the acknowledgments section of The Testaments, she even thanks Hulu for making sure that anything they added to the show still made reference to an actual historical event - she refers to this as a rule for the books’ universe.

What’s interesting to me about the prophetic angle, is that Atwood is first and foremost a historian. She has long-stated that the content of The Handmaid’s Tale was not some horror fantasy she dreamt up - she pulled each piece of it from history. It still falls well within the dystopian category, but I am sometimes…

As a long time competitive swimmer in both high school and college, can confirm this happens more than you’d believe. So creepy.

I went to school in Sweden until I was 10. That was back in the mid 70s. When we swam during gym, we weren’t even allowed to wear swimsuits. We all swam nude, and that was normal. There was nothing sexual about kids swimming nude.

Oh, God. You KNOW that locker room is full of pinhole cameras.

I think it’s super weird that they make 2-piece swimsuits for toddlers. Like I’m supposed to cover my daughter’s non-breasts? WTF?

When I was a 15-y-o boy, I had an butt that stuck out and was very self-conscious about it. One day, one of the cool kids who was holding court before class started commented that I “have that giant shelf ass.” I was mortified. I can’t even imagine multiplying “that feeling” x “teenage girl” x “in bathing suit” x…

I lived in Jakarta until age 10 and most of our family friends were Europeans and Australians. The younger kids, boys and girls, often swam in just pants. I recall going with my mom to collect a friend from the British School for a playdate. The class was just coming back from PE and all the kids were in shorts. We…

WOW. Awful.

Sounds like a referee needs to get fired and the local police department probably needs to do a very thorough search of all his electronics devices.

I have a friend who regularly saves drunk weekend tubers after they’ve floated downstream and into the Arizona desert. One girl told him she thought the river just circled around and you’d float back to your original spot. You can’t make this stuff up.

I think the idea is you aim the air nozzle carefully and use its jet propulsive properties.