Fair enough. Camelbak or no, the opportunities for vaginal storage have been shamefully ignored, and I applaud your good work.

She just says these little things that are really, really sad (probably unintentionally so). Wistfully fantasizing about “not do[ing] this anymore” strikes me less as obnoxious rich kid and more as kid who sees no way out of this empire she was born into (though obnoxious and rich may still apply).

While most of these are excellent ideas, I am struggling to visualize the logistics of the camelbak.

Yeah, it seems that time and cost are the two major cons of phototherapy. So it seems that in your case, tanning is just the most reasonable solution. I’d never pass judgment on anybody’s chosen eczema treatment - I personally use a potentially carcinogenic ointment, cause that’s what works best for me! When it comes…

Boils and scarring, sounds like a good time. :\ But hopefully light therapy will work out! Best of luck to you.

Ugh, that sounds terrible. I spent a disproportionate amount of time this summer bathing in apple cider vinegar, which was truly awful, but at least it worked! Eczema can be gross enough in and of itself, but it’s the stuff that gets in through your traitorous skin that you’ve really got to watch out for. :( I second…

Oh man, I feel you on the life-occupying nature of eczema. Mine’s calmed down a bit, but I just had a period this summer of really severe eczema (complete with staph, yay!) that made my life a living hell. Sounds like yours is more severe, though. Have you tried phototherapy? Never needed it myself, but google tells…

And it’s the exact same logic you hear with rape apologists, too. “It’s really sad what happened to her, even if she did put herself in harm’s way by drinking so much/going home with him/dressing like that/etc.” I guess all hatred of women comes in slightly different variations on the same basic template.

I think we really lose our way as feminists when we push so hard for ideological purity. The criticism of Arquette’s speech was legitimate and necessary - her comments unveiled some major unresolved issues with feminism and its lack of intersectionality. To point that out is important, but to tear her to shreds for…

Wow. Really well said. I think you perfectly articulated what someone else was trying to say in another thread, the one that devolved into “men cannot be feminists”. We shouldn’t be heaping praise onto people just for being decent human beings.

Oh, of course - we’re really seeing all the usual rape apologist bullshit (“but they were dating, so it can’t be rape!”, “but she’s a porn star, so it can’t be rape!”, “but he’s such a nice guy, so he can’t be a rapist!”) being brought out in full force. I second the feeling sick, and I don’t think I’ll be returning…

Yeah, seriously, what the fuck is going on? The victim blaming and rape apology are off the charts. I think it might be just the fact that a woman is accusing a man of rape and being believed - some people really cannot handle that. :(

Yeah, didn’t mean to seem like I was attacking you there - sometimes a comment is just so horrible that we feel the need to respond, even knowing it’s a troll. I think the best thing to do now is just flag and move on.

Whoa, it’s too late now, but this person is clearly trolling and should never have been brought out of the greys. He/she is dismissing Stoya because she’s a sex worker, and not attempting to be subtle about it. This isn’t going to be a productive conversation.

Then that’s where you and I differ on how we see the school’s actions. The school obviously should have anticipated a pushback - and it did. The reading was made optional and the school stressed that it respected parents’ opposing views. To me, it seems obvious that this was an attempt by a group of parents to stop…

AMEN to all of this. You’ve perfectly articulated something I’ve been trying to help people understand for a while now: if the anti-choice movement wants us to believe that they truly see abortion as murder, then why do they distance themselves from people who kill doctors who perform abortions? Hell, if fetuses are…

Not to mention: http://boston.cbslocal.com/2015/11/29/pla…

Which is it, then, Carly? Was the murderer a “pro-life [oh, the irony] protester” who killed in the name of his twisted ideology and was undoubtedly influenced by the right’s demonization of Planned Parenthood, or were the killings unrelated to the vitriolic rhetoric you and your ilk have been spouting? One or the…

This is not a legal argument. The entire argument rests on the basis that the school is going to make the “normal, well-adjusted” (wtf?) students uncomfortable, confusing them and exposing them to the radical idea that being transgender is possible and acceptable, and infringe on parents’ rights not to have…

Exactly! And it’s that kind of thinking - that women naturally want to be ‘pure’, and any other manifestation of women’s sexuality is foisted upon us by men - that leads to some people claiming that abortion and birth control are actually *anti-feminist*, because it’s men somehow forcing women to be sexually…