The article about him going missing says he has a mental disability. I’m not sure why the Times article doesn’t mention it, unless maybe it turned out to not be accurate after all.

The original article about him going missing says he has a mental disability.

Let’s hang out and eat Cheetos in front of my co-workers who can’t stop talking about Paleo.

Well, yes, I’m not suggesting anyone should eat carrion. But we’re culturally obsessed with declaring very specific diets as the RIGHT WAY TO EAT FOOD, when our evolutionary history suggests it would make a lot more sense for humans to be just fine eating pretty much anything, as long as it adds up to a balanced diet…

Yes, if you factor in the massive mortality from childhood diseases. No one is arguing that we should go back to starving to death and drinking beer instead of water, but it suggests that maybe we could stop collectively peeing our pants about eating kale smoothies or Cap’N crunch or whatever other completely harmless…

To the degree that we shrivel up and die if our moms eat cereal while we’re in utero?

This obsession over eating correctly is hilarious to me. FFS, humans spent most of their evolutionary time eating bone marrow out of carrion and most of their historical time starving to death and doing hard labor. Humanity managed to carry on. So I’m guessing that, as a species, we’re probably realllllly not that…

Yeah, I’m pretty sure Chase sends me a platinum card 3 times a week, with 0% APR*

YEP, ALL OF THAT. Are you a teacher?

My mom was a teacher until she retired a few years ago, and the rule in her school district was that you had to get re-fingerprinted every 5 years. And you had to pay for it. Why????

I got such perverse pleasure out of refusing to take on that “woman as family ambassador” role with my ex. I did not memorize any birthdates or anniversary dates, pick out any presents that were going to only be from him, or write any thank you cards for things that were only for him (obviously I helped if they were…

Isn’t that basically what Cady tells Regina George are Swedish diet bars to secretly make her fat??

I’m really glad it helped. It just seems insanely callous to me that this committee didn’t find pain worth addressing- hell, even if they were like “we can’t do anything about it now but we’re going to put together a set of best-practice guidelines in 5 years”, that would be something!!

Right??? Like, how about that gel they put on your gums before they give you a dental novacaine shot?? I mean, if it goes in your mouth with no issue, can it really not go on your cervix?? It’s just crazy to me that a procedure that so many people find this painful is just supposed to be normal.

You’re the first person to mention lidocaine! I don’t know if this is true, because anecdata, but from this thread it sounds like the insertion experience varies so much from doctor to doctor. Some people get offered pain relief that other people don’t. It makes me think that maybe there aren’t very detailed…

I totally get you that it was worth it, but I just seriously doubt that there was absolutely nothing doctors can do to make insertions less painful. Other commenters have said their doctor used a cervical dilation drug, or a lidocaine shot, or even a numbing gel, but for some reason, only some commenters seem to have…

That’s awesome- why don’t more doctors do that???? That’s what annoys me about this- some doctors seem to have strategies to make the insertion less painful, and other doctors seem to have not heard of them (or just not use them??? I don’t know). If this committee really wanted to make IUDs more popular, why don’t…

I totally agree with you that bad practice is probably causing a lot of these horrible experiences. It would be great if this committee produced better guidelines or recommended more training for doctors, or recommended more research in to how to reduce pain in the months after insertion. But instead, the committee…

I think a lot of people are missing the point here. It’s great if you didn’t have significant pain or complications, but my point is that there are a lot of women that do, and there’s nothing doctors can really do for them but take the IUD out if they eventually can’t stand it anymore. This article is claiming doctors…

I’m so sorry :(