Agree on all points.

True. But one of the curses/blessings of age is that you get to see the same damn thing, over and over. I’ve been voting for environmental solutions and left politics for (*checks calendar*) almost FORTY years. I’ve activisted like crazy for womens rights and environmental issues for fucking decades. My first…

I can’t even imagine the wild ride she’s on right now, and how hard it must be to navigate the rapids without getting cocky, or angry, or deluded. She seems very strong, but she will be under ridiculous pressure.

I’m also completely fed up with the contempt so many people have for the older female politicians who have been working for decades. There seems to be a paradox of younger women saying getting older is cool and wishing they had mentors, and then also telling older women that only young firebrands have the answers.

One of the big disappointments in the US system, for me, is this unrelenting need to find the next big hero who is going to fix everything. The It Girl or Boy of the moment who says all the right things and there’s a collective swoon - and the same is true of the Villain of the Moment. To watch it occur, over and over…

I’m guilty of gifting hubby the whisky stones. We NEVER use them. Then I gave him the silicon ice ball mold. That gets used all the time. I should get him a second one of those.

The whole point of lifts is that they are inside the shoe, where you don’t see them. These are just clunky.

Because other men let them. Same with the convicted rapists who walk - see Brock Turner. Or all the men who looked the other way in church child abuse incidents.

It’s hard to even conceive of the fragility of these men’s egos, the depth of their neediness combined with the audacity of their hubris, when they were hitting on women who were often so far out of their league in every way but male power. It boggles the mind.

I just wasn’t sure the two couldn’t exist simultaneously. Well, there’s one wrinkle I didn’t have - sorry you are dealing with it. My reproductive journey is long over, thank Dog, and I am sending good wishes for yours!

Not envious. They just seemed kind of glad to see me suffer because they couldn’t get pregnant again. I’m no longer friends with those people.

Oh, well. Mostly I just gave a tightly lipped non-smile and said, “uh-huh.”

My semi-educated guess is that if Union had so many miscarriages, she probably has something like what my doctor (only recently) said was probably my problem: super fertility. I.e., a reproductive system that is so ready to get pregnant that it just lets any crappy zygote implant and take up residence anywhere (hello,…

You don’t hear about the social stigma until it’s directed at you. I even had some women who were having problems conceiving express resentment that I could get pregnant so easily and often, and then came the schadenfreude that my super fertility was rewarded with nothing. Really incredible.

I gave up at 42. Our kid was quite a handful, so we figured we would just focus on her after considering briefly considering adoption. The medical system at the time didn’t have any answers for someone like me, who could get pregnant just by thinking about intercourse, but who couldn’t stay that way.

Agree. That would be a good thing, too. And this whole stigma gets perpetuated all the time in media - even in movies like Prometheus, in which a scientist feels badly about herself because she can’t conceive. Well, yeah, that’s very sad on a personal level, but it doesn’t make her any less of a person. Ugh.

“all he has done is golf and gossip and complain and sometimes shake rich people’s hands for decades now...”

Oh, give him a bit more than that. He’s been grifting the whole time, too. 

It makes me sad to think of someone like Union feeling shame or humiliation for having a reluctant reproductive tract. As someone who also had a reproductive system that was, shall we say, uncooperative, it would be a great step forward to remove the stigma of talking openly about these things.

This is the much crappier version of Marilyn Monroe’s answer to what she slept in, and her answer was “Chanel 5.”

At least I actually believed Monroe’s answer.

So instead of telling people to make sure they are using fresh ingredients, the advice is not to eat cookie dough? Pfft.