Not just men, and not just greys! What a joy this has been to come back to.

And here you are whining about me whining and so I guess I have successfully incepted you.

Someone posted a link to a bicycle form, a while ago, where women were discussing, I don’t know, yeast infections or something caused by being in the saddle all day long and I swear the comments were 50% dudes, with half of those going “EW VAGINAS GROSS!” and the other half going “well, I don’t experience it.”

Yes, contrary to what a lot of people are willfully misinterpreting, I am fine with there being men here. It’s great! Hurray! But just...maybe...they could...not...suck up...all the oxygen...on every fucking story?

How funny that I say “maybe men could take up a little less space in women’s spaces” and it gets filtered through patriarchal defense forces as “no men are ever allowed to talk ever to women ever and flirting is dead and the species will die out.”*

I think that, in the larger sense of the world, gender does dictate what people can do and where, and so when women carve out a little slice of the internet it would be nice if men didn’t take up quite so much space on it.

You seem nice!

Yeah, that’s really not the point here.

Yep! It’s pretty tiresome. And even when they have a good point to make, I promise if they wait five minutes a woman will come along and make it.

That picture of your lashes just sold me on it!

That picture of your lashes just sold me on it!

Dear god.

And, as ever, the top two comments are from men who comment early and on absolutely everything.

There are lots of alternatives to AA including SMART recovery (which is not god-based), the Sinclair Method (a friend has had GREAT success), and a variety of medications like naltrexone.

Jesus Christ that’s awful.

Yeah! You kill ONE person TWENTY YEARS ago and then SLIDE ON A TECHNICALITY and how DARE people call you a MURDERER?! Come on, people! Expecting someone not to murder someone is too high of a bar! How will we ever clear it?

I told my brother about the group of women who want to buy out Weinstein’s company and staff it with an all-female board and he said that’s “just as bad” because one single solitary all female board in a sea of thousands of all male boards is...I can’t even finish the thought it still makes me so angry to think about.

Frankly, I think this is disingenuous BS that lets men off the hook for not speaking up. It’s not hard to say “I support Time’s Up, I salute the bravery of survivors coming forward, and I hope this represents a huge shift in Hollywood and the world more widely.”

Depending on where you’re starting from, that’s a hell of a lot of exercise. Can you go slower? Also, I really like https://www.youtube.com/user/TiffanyRotheWorkouts for fun, dance-based cardio.

Have you doing the FODMAPS elimination diet? It’s really helpful in figuring out which foods are bad news bears. Also, a full spectrum enzyme supplement helps me a lot.

I don’t know which test you’re talking about, but there are a lot of bogus tests out there, which can lead to cutting out way more foods than necessary. As someone with a shit tonne of food restrictions, I’d encourage you to a) try an elimination/re-introduction diet and b) work with a dietician if possible to do so.