A crummy commercial? Son of a bitch!

If she hires Stanley Spadowski to do a kids' show, I might actually watch.

That's how they justify it, though. If they classify minimum-wage jobs as "stepping stones", then anyone who's in them for any length of time is CLEARLY a lazy uneducated loser who doesn't want to put in the work to improve his or her lot. That way, they get to absolve themselves of having any sympathy for exploited…

Did...did you find someone who cares about boners?

It's pure snobbery. They think they're smarter and better-educated and, well, just BETTER in general than low-wage workers, never mind that a lot of people in service jobs have or are working toward degrees (and it's required for most supervisory positions). Never mind, also, that education doesn't measure the value…

You're probably right.

I've been reading about this, too. What an awful story :(

Playtex expands differently than other brands, blossoming out evenly instead of mostly expanding in two directions like Tampax, et al. So they end up fitting better for a lot of people (myself included).

That's how it was for me, too. Thank GOD for birth control. I wish I'd gone on it sooner.

Yes. Like, say, people working minimum wage. Or people like me, who are currently unemployed but still have a working (for some values of the word working") uterus.

That's how it was for me before I started on birth control. I went through both pads *and* tampons at a pretty high rate.

I have the book, but I haven't gotten around to reading it yet.

Duh—because only women use them, of course!

Oh. My. God. And he was serious?!

I think you're on to something there.

I'd like to think I'd have a snappy comeback for that—"Maybe, but I'll have a great time getting there!", for instance—but I'd probably just be so shocked by her vitriol that I wouldn't know what to say.

Nailed it!

It doesn't place as much of one on me now that I'm taking birth control continuously and only have a fairly brief and manageable period every third month or so (thanks, Planned Parenthood!), but, back before I was on them? Yeah. My periods usually lasted about ten days (or more) and were sometimes so heavy that I'd…

That's pretty much what it is, yeah.

The ankles are typically where I have the most trouble with skinny jeans (I guess I have small ankles? I never really thought about it), so I'm kind of used to that. I have a couple pairs I keep wondering if I want to make narrower or just leave as-is.

I'm average height (5'6"), but often have problems with tops…