Absolutely believe this. When I was married towards the end we had separate bedrooms. My ex was in second bedroom and became really really depressed. That wasn’t unusual so I didn’t think much of it. She asked if we could trade rooms and I said sure. A couple weeks later I was hugely depressed. I had no history of…

I didn’t write this one but know of the house in question. I also know the part about the bartender is true, as it happened to a friend when I first moved to town. The house is back up for rent now. I believe someone moved into it towards the end of last year, so it means another family couldn’t stand it.

This. A lot of people seem to be forgetting how damned dangerous gymnastics is. It’s not like swimming, where you might lose a bit of time and mess up your turn if you can’t focus. An unfocused gymnast can end up crippled.

It’s almost a perverse way of maintaining the pressure that Biles seems to be buckling under.

I square it by thinking about the kind of life threatening skills she has to perform. MJ or Serena won’t be catastrophically injured if they aren’t in the right headspace at all times. Simone is in that exact position - if she’s off by a fraction of an inch or a sec b/c hesitation, she’s either dead or paralyzed for…

It is a “chemical addiction” thing, not a “loving-it” thing.

I remember the stupid pet tricks segment on the old Letterman show. This one guy had trained his dog to buy beer. It went into the (mock-up) liquor store, grabbed a six-pack, put it and money strapped to its foreleg on the counter, waited for beer and change to be put in the paper back, and took the bag outside.…

Apparently she can order food but can’t smoke? I kind of wonder if they offered her nicotine products to use. If not that’s a bit messed up.

That sounds like a different issue then. She could be fined for smoking in a non-smoking area, but she instead fined for breaking quarantine which it seems she didn’t. 

for sure. The statistics surrounding missing native women are important to know but it’s telling that podcasters HAVE to recite a bunch of stats every time they tell those stories because there’s often little else to say to fill up the half hour or w/e. No suspects, no knowledge of where they were really last seen,…

So.. she didn’t leave the hotel, and had something delivered, not face to face... what’s the issue? 

The other reason a lot of people like true crime is that if you have depression or anxiety disorders, it helps to have real examples of doom and horror to compare against your brain’s constant interpretation of everything in your own life being terrible. I like horror movies and books but I prefer true crime because I…

She was a really well-respected OBGYN, honestly. And she delivered ME. But somehow many OBGYN’s think everything is about having babies.  Like, oh all women want babies.  At the time I didn’t have a hope in hell of having children and was still parenting my younger sibling.  Not to mention, in labor, I got an epidural…

What a ridiculous thing to say.  If a two ton safe fell on your leg and crushed it would they tell you to get over it because the pain is similar to labor and you’d be prepared?  Who the hell wants to be prepared for the pain of labor by having extra pain?  That reminds me of that old joke: what do you all the person…

To be fair, the academy basically DOES hate women.

Signed,
Someone with a PhD who is also a woman

However, funding is how to solve this (you are right). Maybe before I hit menopause in 20 years, they will have a treatment.

At the same time, most doctors (most of which were WOMEN) have made fun of/ignored/refused to care…

It doesn’t help that a) women are perceived as exaggerating their pain and b) there still persists a widespread sentiment that menstrual pain (along with the pain of childbirth) is essential to the experience of being a woman.

All the stories I’ve seen have been clear that Nassib is the first openly gay active player. Sam was drafted but didn’t make the 53-man roster. 

Every article I’ve seen says “Active NFL player.” So 2nd in NFL, first that is actually playing. Firsts get headlines. 

Yeah, as far as excuses go, “I didn’t know what that word meant when I was a kid” is a pretty valid one. The way that video was edited, I couldn’t even tell she was singing along to a song... but I could definitely tell that the person who made the video didn’t want there to be any context to the chosen clips.

So... I am embarrassed to say that I didn’t know the term “ch!nky” eyes was a racial slur until I was in COLLEGE. I had never heard that word used to refer to Asians (could be because there were almost none where I grew up). To me, it just meant when you squint when high - which is a total facepalm now. Like how did I…