Yeah, I was gonna respond, “Why does the WSJ print any of the editorials they print?” but this is more eloquent.

I just want to kindly caution you, because food + need for control is the precise recipe that often leads to disordered eating. I struggled with anorexia in my teens. It had nothing to do with losing weight, but rather I felt that food was the only thing in my life I could control, and I got high on my…

It’s also important to note that people can 100% be suffering from an ED and not appear skinny. ED is not just about the weight, it’s the behavior.

Who’s the “they” here? Because pretty much every current system of power - Republican, Democrat, Conservative, Liberal - supports the status quo. And I haven’t seen anything from Debra Messing to suggest that she is “poor, broke, lacking medical attention” or doing anything other than enjoying the benefits of the…

I’ve never really understood the euphoria part. Maybe I’m just not a good candidate for these things, but whenever I’ve had to fast for medical procedures, I’m pretty angsty and grumpy and incapable of focusing on tasks. I wonder if people are just properly hydrating for the first time in a while when they do these…

Every once in a while I have to do an involuntary “cleanse” to have a colonoscopy (cancer prevention, yo!). I hate the violently shitting part, so I start the liquid diet a little earlier than necessary. The benefits are nada. The only people who should be radically changing the consistency of their food are people…

I also wonder how many of these people who want perpetrators to experience these types of punishments are also sharing abolitionist rhetoric on their social media. Alternative forms of justice and punishment are never going to work if we still want our enemies to be arrested and raped in prison.

So, what he’s saying is that midwives are the true doctors? And women who bear children in the wilderness alone? These are the people we should respect the most?

Ah, you just demonstrated part of the problem. A doctorate level of education can be achieved by most working in a hospital/healthcare. Nurses can get doctorates. Therapists of any kind an get doctorates. Pharmacists can get doctorates. Folks in administration might have PhDs. Also, we all wear the same dang clothes…

I get that it can be confusing. Which is why I go by my doctor prefix in academic situations but not clinical situations (patient’s are easily confused, so my personal stance on this hill that I do not care to die on is that only medical doctors should go by doctor in clinical situations and that everyone involved…

I think part of the problem is also that it seems like the bar is low to become a church and that some of these newer evangelical organizations masquerade as something else to get people through the door.

Regardless, what he does is still abusive and illegal and he should be held accountable. You’re trying to justify a point of view that really doesn’t matter.

I watched the show in earlier seasons. It was troubling. There were one or two women who seemed like they had the potential to be okay if they just stopped hanging out with the rest of the group. They have left the show. Now it’s just lazy white people who don’t work - both because of entitlement and an apparent lack…

Another option is to embrace the plasticity of language and adjust our understanding, as human beings have done since the advent of verbal and written language. How much do you use thou and thee? Pretty sure someone was ranting on a scroll somewhere a few hundred years ago about how confusing it is to use you.

Read the title and was like, no shirt. Pretty sure the list of people who’ve done more than the federal government to help out in the pandemic is a long one.

She’s not a boomer.

I feel you.

Here’s an interesting bit of trivia.

If we’re going to talk about someone Mara-adjacent who is annoying AF IRL, let’s consider Joaquin Phoenix - an incredible actor, who thought he was starting a revolution by talking about nut milk on the Oscar stage.

Totally down to keep anglophone bullshit from spreading to just about everywhere, leading to the destruction of indigenous languages. But it’s important to note that Spanish is the language of the colonizer as well. Due to it’s prevalence, we’ve lost a lot of indigenous languages in Central and South America.