I'm considering getting in my car, driving to Austin, and throwing an actual douche bag at the Senate.

Hello, team badass. On an aesthetic note, I've noticed an interesting trend in photos of activists and legislators (Wendy, et al.) in the Texas Capitol building - there always seem to be portraits of old white dudes in the background, looking on. Of course, this is a product of there being a lot of old white dudes in…

What a bonehead. If Paula Deen has taught racist cooks anything it's that you need to establish your food/media empire *before* ruining said career with this sort of behavior. Get it right, dummies.

Canada - No abortion law. Lower abortion rates than the U.S. Happy Canada Day! (Yes, there are places where access is a problem, but it's not from legal barriers.)

You're right that it comes across that way, as if before hormonal bc women were just subject to "nature" and that patriarchy is the default. If you look at human history more broadly, plenty of societies have women with autonomy even without hormonal bc, but the point of these reports is that in the here and now,…

Another vote for Vibrams - I also have really high arches, and I used to have a lot of foot pain until I switched to "barefoot" shoes, but I haven't had a problem since, and I do regular half-marathons. If you try them, get into it gradually - at first, your feet will hurt because you're using your muscles…

With these kinds of studies I'm always curious about how terms are defined in their methodology. For example, in studies on how many times somebody thinks about sex per day/hour/minute/whatever - does reading a news article about sexual assault or access to reproductive health services count as "thinking about sex"?…

Just to reinforce mariemarie's post, "Conceiving Ada" is a 1997 biopic directed by Lynn Hershman-Leeson.

The character is partly inspired by the history of the Oriental Institute at the U of Chicago.

Obviously, because when you pick up an iron, your penis falls off. Everybody* knows that.

Of course I don't know all the details, but given the failure to even test the DNA, and the conspicuous disappearance of a janitor, it wouldn't surprise me if it was someone with a higher rank making a janitor the fall guy for his own crimes, or at the very least, covering up their own knowledge of more widespread…

I think it looks fake too, but I seem to recall that this was actually a thing in The Handmaid's Tale, which is itself essentially the Republican playbook, so it could go either way.

The thing about producing lubrication as a safety mechanism is a fine idea, or maybe it's that straight women can identify with the masturbating women, and then they smile with their eyes.