I’m not sure about ‘weak-minded.’ I know a couple of people who were involved peripherally with NXIVM who were smart and kind - but both struggling with anxiety, depression, and trauma, and they were frustrated by the way our society deals with mental health issues (rightly so, it’s sometimes just agree to SSRIs or…

I shudder at the no SPF part. You are truly screwed either way? I’ve also heard that a lot of it is absorbed through the eyes - like, nope! Still gonna wear sunglasses.

Grateful to Hilton for sharing her story. She didn’t have to and her account sounds horrifying. The idea that these “schools” or “treatment centers” have ever been legal is awful and everyone responsible needs to pay.

This is also so stupid when you consider the fact that our healthcare system has been f*cked by COVID. A friend of mine asked how she could help healthcare workers aside from avoiding the virus - I told her not to juggle chainsaws. Forgot to mention not to superglue any body parts.

I’m not clear on why exactly medical care is warranted here. I got gum stuck in my hair in a way that was impossible to get out and ended up with a terrible haircut for a while. Hair grows. She can wait until it grows out enough to shave off the glued parts.

Good grief, lady.

Thissssssss. An people say women are too emotional. Like, dude, great first draft of your letter. This is the one you print out and put in a keepsake box.

I love how the criticism of her having a perceived emotional response is really just a man complaining about the discomfort of hurting someone’s feelings because he doesn’t know how to be a proper human being.

I just saw that I May Destroy You received no nominations, but Emily in Paris did. It’s a joke.

I totally get that. I was lucky that my first therapist was a big proponent of “putting it on the shelf” when that’s what felt right and then picking back up when needed.

I just wanna shout about the unfortunate normalization of deep sadness right now. It’s a problem. I say this as someone who has had chronic depression and a few encounters with trauma since puberty first hit.

Wow - we are the same person! Chronic depression diagnosed at 12. Exercise and “faking it til I make it” is what keeps me functional. Tried a couple of SSRIs and it did not go well. But a tool that I’ve used a lot that’s also backed by research is talk therapy.

Yeah, total ethical quagmire to include pregnant women in a study like this. No IRB gonna approve that.

The problem is that chemo ravages your immune system and vaccines target your immune system - so the timing has gotta be right. And having any agency over the timing of getting this vaccine is impossible due to this botched roll-out.

Yes.

“The very nature of the virus makes us act against our inherently communal behavior to even have a chance of survival...”

The best explanation I’ve heard.

It’s gonna break his little brain when he finds out that by basic legal definition gay men can sexually harass women regardless of lack of sexual desire.

Bourgeois: Originally a French word for people living within walled cities (often peasants), evolved into a term across many languages for the middle class, was adopted by Marxists in the form of ‘bourgeoisie’ as a term for those in charge of means of production who are in support of capitalism, is abbreviated in the…

It was long and I didn’t read the whole thing, but the one point that I think was worthy is that shaming on social media is not effective. I know this because I spent the first two months of the pandemic watching patients die everyday and shaming the eff out of everyone and everything on social media and all it did…