My gosh, if you get it through a skin area like mine, though.... mine stopped hurting immediately after it was done. I was worried it had fallen out.

Clit hood: the only piercing that has never caused me any worry or pain (after the initial horrorshow, that is. OWWWW)

I’ll try to type slower so this is easier for you to understand.

That’s pretty dumb.

Because we’ve spent our whole lives learning to empathize with people who don’t look like us, so we’ll still watch movies we aren’t represented in. White blokes don’t have to learn that empathy because they’re still the cultural default.

Because of misogyny. Men who identify with women are weak. Women who identify with men are strong.

That’s tautological, though. “When a doctor says it’s medically necessary, it’s necessary.”

To be fair, she probably SAID it instead of wrote it. People get diarrhea of the mouth sometimes.

Pearl CLUTCHERS’ Daily.

But OMG, that sounds like it was actually a mistake.

Why do you assume that all trans people who can’t get surgery are chronically depressed? I can KIND OF get wanting to move in the world as a woman or a man despite being born into the sex that isn’t automatically assigned to one of those genders, but that’s what hormone therapy is for. Sex reassignment is a different…

How can you make a blanket statement that sex reassignment surgery is never elective? I could elect it. Anyone could elect it. You won’t die if you don’t get it. It’s elective.

Even if the top tier tax rate (for $100 million +) was 99%, you would still clear anywhere between “a million dollars” and “infinity” dollars after taxes more than you would have if you hadn’t made it into that hypothetical obscene bracket. No one, no matter how rich, is ever disincentivized by US federal tax brackets…

We are so god damned gullible.

Hikes taxes to the point people no longer want the highest wages? Are you under the misconception that those in the highest tax bracket pay that rate for all of their income, instead of only that income which exceeds the previous bracket? No judgment, a lot of people think that’s how it works.

My thoughts exactly - equivocating “crossover” with “trans” somehow didn’t even register in my brain. It’s possible (though very unlikely!) that the car accident angle was the only joke element the writer was originally intending.

And that’s how they can get away with it. Plausible deniability.

Dick Berns. Perfect.

Or you could get a hobby outside of your job to bolster your self esteem. I know the long hours make it impractical, but it’s probably more effective.

Heat rises, ceiling fans probably force air down, thus circulating the heat. The perception of coldness from the air moving against you may or may not cancel out the benefit, depending on what you’re wearing and whether you’re directly under the fan.

But yeah convection is kind of 8th grade science.

But omg what do you say that will actually improve their behavior and not just make them MORE bratty and entitled? Serious question