omg I read that as “3rd grade porno” and wondered what kind of fucked up elementary school you went to.

HELL TO THE NO would I ever let my vagina be probed in a room full of peers. But also - there is a gender imbalance there in the training. Men don’t have the right equipment, so if they’re in the class, they’re exempt from the icky icky special credit? It’s fucked up. Are there classes where men are getting prostate…

I had a bunch of transvaginal ultrasounds prior to some surgery a few years back. I was always asked if I preferred to insert the probe myself and in one case the tech’s comments led me to believe this was legally required(?) so I’d be interested to know what the legalities surrounding this are.

No. I don’t know why they’re claiming it’s a common thing. I’m in med school and we occasionally do non-invasive things on each other: listening with stethoscopes, ear and eye exams, blood pressure, etc. But we would never, ever be asked to submit to an invasive procedure like this. We have standardized patients who…

For real, this though. I just can't imagine having all my peers up in my junk and then having to like...have a study group with them.

I have gotten countless vaginal ultrasounds in the last 3 years, and not once have they EVER had to “sexually stimulate” me in order to get the scan. Like, at all. Like AT ALL. It would go right in, without anything inappropriate or awkward, beyond me apologizing that my body is always like, “haha no not again” and…

That and the faculty member saying the student should be an “escort girl” were the creepiest parts.

Is this actually commonplace? My best friend is in med school and for stuff like this (basically anything involving genitalia men or women) they have paid volunteers. Like people who literally get paid to be test subjects for them.

Honestly I thought even Florida was above shit like this.

This whole thing is horrifying, but what the holy hell is happening with this sentence in particular?

You’re right. In the classic series he pretty much fulfilled the role of mentor, Obi-Wan and Merlin combined, it’s just that the stories were told from his point of view.

Would Xena count?

I should have elaborated more.

The Strain did a fairly good job (although it was a vampire story, really) by having people in powerful positions controlled by the being that wanted to spread the contagion.

No iPhones til 2007, boyo.

I disagree with you about that book (I mostly adore it), but I’m certainly willing to go down this rabbithole with you, if you’d care to discuss it further.

Here’s my counterpoint:
I do take your point that in a world where everyone (in the first world, and in increasingly high numbers…

A friend of mine had this theory:

“Hermoine is always right; unless she’s being overly emotional. Ron is always wrong; unless he’s joking.”

The H in Jesus’s middle name came from the Greek Christogram, IHC (Iota-Eta-Sigma*), which were the first three letters of Jesus’s Greek name (IHCΟΥC).

Really, every Harry Potter story would be over in about half the time if you follow this simple rule: “Do what Hermione says.” Out of seven books, the number of times this wouldn’t work is astonishingly low.