Crazy to think Billy McFarland will probably be POTUS in about 15 years or so.

It’s “funny” because he’s a white male of a certain class standing where that was considered an “outrageous” request (and it certainly was outrageous). It’s less funny to consider that for some folks such “asks” aren’t that out of the norm.

The social media hero who enabled that jerk for years. Congratulations.

It definitely sounds like Mandy Moore is accessing therapy and has such a good head on her shoulders. More power to her, forget about the ‘bad guys’ who did bad - and let’s focus on the people who are so resilient, who learn from their experiences, and seem ready to hold people accountable without dragging them…

This is entirely accurate. The current way to diagnose endo is through surgery - and it’s only successful if they look in the right place. Plenty of women, who almost definitely do have endo, have undergone the surgery and no cells have been found - not because they’re not there but because they just weren’t seen…

Thanks for posting this. I hate it when people pretend that their own peeves are motivated by a desire for accuracy.

In particular, they hoped they might be able to reliably detect changes in gene expression that Linda Giudice, a doctor at the University of California, San Francisco, had recently discovered in women with endometriosis.

I can’t find the citation that I had read that went back further, but here is a link describing the history of nut milk over the last thousand years at least:

I’m sure actual doctors and biomedical researchers have tested the blood of women with endo for every possible marker that would signal endo, but haven’t found anything conclusive. I don’t understand why she wants period blood. Or from tampons, someone else asked the very reasonable question: why not get the blood…

Nut milks have been called milk all the way back to proto-Indo-European languages, dating back about three millennia. Dairy farmers are greedy assholes who get fat sucking on the teat of massive government subsidies and then whining about having to compete for market share.

That’s exactly what I thought of here. I’m worried this is going to be a cute little schtick that people are going to latch on to, but since they’ve not mentioned anything about HOW they are going to test the blood, and since thus far there has been no way to detect endometriosis in the blood at all, or anyway to…

My thought exactly.  Like if there is some marker in the blood why isn’t that already a diagnostic test?  I mean I found out I had it when my surgeon told me in recovery that that was the worst case he’d ever seen, but would’ve been nice to know what it was when the symptoms started.

But here’s the rub- if your Endo is moderate to serious, you often CAN’T USE TAMPONS. Insertion is too painful and sometimes physically impossible from the pain triggering pelvic spasms.

Another hurdle is that any kind of medical start-up that tests blood will inevitably make people think of the epic Theranos fiasco

After meeting at university as students and a year of dating we went out to a very nice restaurant for our 1 year anniversary, had a nice meal and then I drove us out to Kings Park (Perth Western Australia) and at the war memorial lookout, with the city all lit up and laid out beneath us, I popped the question. She…

Is it just me or is this batshit phenomenon exclusive to white guys? I’ve seen so many videos where white guys trick their family (usually a mom, aunt, or partner) into thinking they died, won the lottery, a child died, they joined the army, or proposed in a massive public setting. I vividly recall a youtube video…

What makes this movie the worst is it’s terrible rewrite of history to make it seem like Cheney was this Machiavellian, apolitical, greedy monster who didn’t care about anything but personal power. That’s simply not true. Not by a long shot.

He’s horribly miscast in the role.  His is easily the least convincing impression in the entire film.

I haven’t seen this yet. I’ve read and heard all about Christian Bale’s performance, but how on earth did I not know Steve Carell plays Donald Fucking Rumsfeld?!?

God forbid people who are bigger than a size 2 get to have a comfortable towelling experience, am I right?????

God forbid people who are bigger than a size 2 get to have a comfortable towelling experience, am I right?????