“Any bed linen must be new white bed linens, washed once before use, Frette or Pratesi preferred or of high quality with 500+ thread count.”

oh, good grief. i’m not conditioned this way or that just because i don’t like my particular complexion, and that’s not the default truth for anyone else who just happens to not like their complexion either. what a bizarre take.

sometimes it’s just about improving the appearance of your complexion. if you don’t like your bare complexion in the mirror because of tone, redness, acne, or whatever, it’s a big hit to self-esteem. so, some people choose to cover it up even if they don’t wear a ton of makeup to do it. if your friends don’t want or…

You mean to tell me that chewing five gum isn’t like laying on a bed of ball bearings in an underground bunker being levitated by a heavy bass track?!? THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE. 

Just this week, the UK law changed on harmful gender stereotypes in advertising

Behold: The Holy Grail of Early 21st Century Masculine Advertising:

My thoughts exactly. This is born out of our health concerns being ignored, minimized and laughed off. We’ve been told BCP has zero side effects and are safe in every way and that’s simply not true.

If you elect me student body president, there will be pizza in the cafeteria every day.

The “Wellness” bullshit comes from DECADES of women being ignored by medical science. It comes from women who have been told that they’re “hysterical”. It comes from people who can’t afford healthcare. 

I agree with you. What I think the article failed to articulate is that modern (American, at least) healthcare is seriously lacking. I don’t generally walk out of my doctor’s office feeling better and listened to. And it’s a chronic problem. That’s where the pseudoscience comes in. Modern medicine as a practice is…

Used to work with someone (Southern born at that!) who chose to get snipped at 21 y/o. He said he had a hell of a time getting it done because everybody was second guessing his decision, doctor included. When they gave him some line about possibly wanting more kids down the road, he flat out told them that he already…

Ikr? If not actual vasectomies; then chemical versions of vasectomies (male birth control) or condoms.  It’s high time men take some effing responsibility.

Right, this quote

I have never found a birth control option that didn’t make me feel “different”. I was told before each one that this one would be different, no chemicals. But they all sucked. This is why we should be fully supporting free vasectomies for everyone! I’ll even do it! 

As a woman who had a stroke when she was 9, I agree with you 120%.

THANK YOU. I’m always so frustrated by Jez’s take on stuff like this. You don’t need to be some conspiracy theorist whack job to question how pumping yourself full of hormones might be affecting you.

Does your username mean “Slime Licking”?

It’s almost like there are downsides to eliminating sex ed from schools.

As someone who recently nearly died likely because of my birth control pill at the ripe old age of 29 (hello, pulmonary embolism), I find the woo-woo concerns about hormonal birth control really frustrating. I had originally gone on birth control to modulate my extreme depressive swings around my period (in addition…

The thing that really annoys me is that they refer to “The Pill” as though there is only one hormonal birth control option out there and it’s this giant monolithic EVERYONE’S EXPERIENCES ARE THE SAME.