It’s a class signal. You can spend $28 on spin classes (even if you can’t, really, spend $28 on spin classes), you’re doing well. Which means you’re worthy and lovable and succeeding in life.

Well, other people are welcome to not look!

I don’t understand this. The bathroom is for bathroom functions. One of those functions is dealing with periods. That might mean washing your hands of blood after emptying your cup or changing your tampon, it might mean getting rid of blood stains so you can go back to work. No, you probably shouldn’t be doing that in…

For reasons I don’t quite understand, Rebel Kate is giving menstrual cups away for free if you pay the price of shipping. Mine just arrived today, so I haven’t used it yet, but it does seem like I’ll like it better than my Diva Cup. https://rebelkate.com/products/your-free-menstrual-cup

You pull it out of your vagina, so it’s below the level of the toilet seat, dump it into the toilet, then pull it out and rinse. At that point there’s nothing to spill.

I haven’t used my cup in years (long time on the pill, didn’t need to), but even with a quite heavy period I very rarely needed to empty it in public.

To each their own, but it’s not exactly “diddling up there.” It’s just inserting the cup, which requires as much vagina-hand contact as inserting an OB tampon, and removing, which requires slightly more than removing any tampon.

Okay.

No, we’re talking the writer of the NYT’s piece on Rachel McAdam’s writing skills.

Yes, this is an especially bizarre/egregious one. But Americans talking about Canada, generally, is always...not quite right.

That’s exactly it. That is not how English works. And I feel like the NYT should have English on lock at this point.

But the phrasing is so bizarre! “The actress, who grew up in Ontario, Canada” would be fine. Or, “The actress, who grew up in London, Ontario” would also make it clear it’s not Ontario, California. Though I do note that Americans are always given a city/town and state, whereas we generally get one or the other.…

The actress, who grew up in Canada’s Ontario province,

You highly doubt that. And yet in the story above you hear about how teenage girls can’t go to the bus stop on their own because they’ll be harassed and kidnapped. That’s superiority right there.

Nunavut is in Canada. So what your point is there, I can’t imagine.

You are allowed to decide to go off Phentermine! For one thing, it’s basically speed, so it’s doing some wild things to your body. For another, generally with things like phentermine, much or all of the weight comes back when you go off and have an appetite again and aren’t running around hyper.

Oh man. That sucks. I love Ten Thousand Villages and hadn’t heard it’s shutting down.

I’m sorry you’re having such a hard time and face so many challenges to getting help.

I’m sorry. It’s so hard to have those memories come unbidden. I’ve found all of #metoo pretty damn triggering for this reason.

Note to self and others: Don’t respond to Sisko>Picard. They are racist as fuck.