I was hesitant. You read about micro plastics in baby’s digestive tracks, hormones in cow milk affecting puberty. That thalidomide/nausea drug in the 60's that caused all those birth defects. And the shocking absence of steady, concrete guidance on pregnancy health. The answer to every “is this safe” question I had…

there are no hard/fast rules in prenatal care. one doctor’s “you can eat lunchmeat” is another’s “it will kill your baby.” In March ‘21 My OB at the county hospital warned me to wait. the nurse practitioner at the fancy private hospital I transferred to urged me to get it in April. Depends entirely on the doctor.

Wow, this is news to me. We have all sorts of policies that guide what can be in the background of a video chat, what you can and cannot email or IM to someone. I can’t imagine someone being stupid enough to use Microsoft Teams to sexually harass someone. That shit would go right to HR and the harasser would be fired…

I really struggle with the nuances of JC drama and what it means for #metoo, online culture, and our fascination with celebrity, so these are thoughts that I have please don’t attack me or call me a rape apologist.

I don’t know that we’re quite there yet. While young, we’re one of the few countries out there have haven’t seen a violent overthrow of our government and it’s largely thanks to the fact that it gets replaced every decade or so. We need to update some of this procedural rules, sure, but we’re a far cry from needing to…

my favourite part was that Anne Bonny apparently had sweet boob-bouncing sex with Blackbeard despite the fact that she didn’t become a pirate until 1720 and Blackbeard died in 1718

It’s weird to blame someone for not knowing how to find a serial murderer when the people giving her information also had no clue what they were doing, as clearly stated in both the documentary and the article.

If she was black, the ancestor would have been from the 1200's, over 500 years before Charlotte was born. I don’t know if one black ancestor from 500 years ago means Charlotte can claim any sense of black identity during the 18th century.

This movie came out when I was 10 or so and had so many “firsts” for me. The first time I got to see other women playing a sport and struggling to be good at it, rather than just being a prodigy on the boy’s team. The first time I saw a culture outside of white/black (I am white). The first time I saw grown women…

We don’t give kids enough credit for being able to tell the difference between fictional characters and real people. How many people saw the original as a kid and grew up to assume all elderly women are evil child eating witches?

This was my scene in high school and I honestly never thought of these bands as purposely female exclusionary. The men/teens presented themselves as unthreatening/the opposite of the powerful male jock figure. I saw them as sensitive and romantic. Therefore it made sense to me that 14 year old girls lusted after the…

This is such reductionist, anti-modern bullshit. American women today make more money than they ever have and have more independence than they ever have, in the history of western civilization. If they want to have a big-ass wedding, more power to them. You’re not a bad feminist for wanting a big party to celebrate a…

the only YouTuber house tour video I could stand was Jenna Marbles, because she’s been on the platform for a decade and went from go-go dancing at 22 to owning a house and rescuing grey hounds at 31. she is one of the only genuine YT’s left and I felt her so hard when she went around the house yelling “how do we even…

remember how female child stars in the 40s and 50s were hopped up on so many diet pills and uppers that most of them barely remember anything before age 25

I don’t work in social media, but thanks for being a dick to me just because I don’t want to lose my job.

I work for a local non-profit faith-based insurer that provides health insurance though state medicaid. we are required to spend .98 cents of every dollar of “revenue” (monthly payments from the state) on medical or case management costs that directly benefit our members. I agree that for-profit publicly traded…

I am 100% for that type of system, but the candidates last night said “get rid of private insurance companies” so that’s what I was reacting to.

by Medical Coders I meant the people that look at patient charts and assign CPT codes/submit claims. obviously the people who know how write in Python would have no problems finding another job. 

as someone who works closely with that massive government bureaucracy (medicaid) I can assure you that if you think private insurers are bad at providing health care wait until you have an even more underpaid, overworked state employee who doesn’t quite understand how computers work deciding whether or not to pay for…

I agree with your first paragraph 100%. Whatever system we do end up will still be broken because 50% of our government is in the pocket of my employer (health insurance). They will lobby to ruin whatever option that makes their business model obsolete. I support Medicaid buy in, and laws that support price…