Yup, I think it is, too. And so I made fairly minor alterations, since it hasn't been mainpaged yet.

Thank you so much for sharing this. The more people share their stories frankly and without embarrassment, the more likely we are to see serious women's health issues like this taken more seriously. And I personally learned something that will help me as a person without a vagina empathize more strongly with friends…

Don't forget to have drunk sex! Medical professionals advocating alcohol as a professional solution should never be questioned.

Not sure if this would help in your situation, but I had this surgery (twice) and it solved my problem, I have pain-free sex now https://www.bcm.edu/healthcare/car… Good luck, I hope you find something that works for you.

5.) There are a few other animal species where the females lose fertility later on. I believe it happens in elephants and orcas, which, like humans, are very social creatures who often all help other members of the group take care of children. Some scientists think that it occurs so older females have more time to…

In my experience hackles get raised by evolutionary psychology, not biology. (And for very obvious reasons.)

The field of scientific study and the funding of said study, as well as authorship and global employment is biased. It doesn't take a feminist to know that. A graduating year of 99% women from science programs would guarantee nothing in terms of who receives funding or is hired in upwardly mobile positions.

Fewer end up heading research programs than you might think. Like other STEM careers, we bleed women at every stage in academia.

What a hateful bastard. Seriously, unless you fear for your safety, it's really the polite thing to do to sit out a date even if you're not attracted to/interested in the other person once you meet them. Ugh, I hate people, but I'm glad your BFF & his wife seem like good folks.

Wait what? What are you talking about? Sure, science is "objective", but the questions we ask and avenues of research we choose to pursue are absolutely largely driven by social factors, politics, and funding. I'm not really sure I get what you're saying.

If I were to take a guess based on nothing at all, I don't think the reasons are that mysterious:

Uhhh funding? Research politics and the likelihood of experiments getting positive (I.e publishable) results? Why so quick to blame the scientists? Does anyone have any fucking idea how difficult it is to secure funding these days? I'm sure that is a large part of the reason why female animals in general are excluded…

I am 25. I have extreme pain during sexual intercourse and until last year even putting a tampon in. It SIX YEARS (age 13, when I got my period, to age 19) for someone to even believe I was in pain and that it was not mental. Then it took years to get into a specialist. Now I have been sent to every fucking specialist…

I work at a store that has vintage theater chairs bolted together in rows randomly dispersed around the store. They are bolted to each other, but not to the floor, so if ANYONE leans over to tie a shoe or pick up something off the ground, the whole row of chairs will tip forward. I weigh a buck twenty and they do it…

As a fat person as well (though, sadly, much much fatter than you) I understand humiliation only too well. I feel it every time I leave the house and walk among the normies. Once, I went on a date with this guy that I'd met online. I sent him several photos of myself (so that he'd know what he was getting himself…

OH GOD. You just reminded me that one time in Amsterdam my friend made me ride on the back of her ancient rickety bike and the rear wheel folded like a taco. I TOLD HER IT WAS A BAD IDEA.

Also a fat person here. Since age 9. My moment was on my birthday, when drinking way too much good draft beer because I worked in the bar...and people were buying me beer so fast that if I put the glass down...there was another one there! Like...magic! I was sitting on an odd shaped metal bar chair...and it kind…

A decent number feel like this, but literally any mention of bisexuality and anything that can be taken as a mention of bisexuality gets a response like this. We run long on biphobic bigots around here. And I think there's a certain amount of "ugh, not again already. I can't even right now" among the bisexuals and…