I know being backed up has its own set of discomforts, but that sounds like heaven compared to what I went through on a few of my trips. When you say “on the road” do you mean driving? Because that could have some effect due to being seated that long. If you’re flying, then I’ll just chalk it up to bodies acting…

Yes, I dislike being away from home because it leaves my spouse to handle our three kids and a part-time job. I hadn’t thought about the water. I’ll start trying only bottled for a while and see if that makes a difference.

If you haven’t yet been flamed into oblivion for an innocuous comment seeking information on the Jez boards then you’re extremely lucky because I see it happen all the time.

All of that is probably what I’m going to need to start doing. Thanks.

Good suggestion. Thanks.

What makes you think I’m a man? Also, I’m specifically stating that you shouldn’t have the attitude of telling women off for seemingly complying with the patriarchy. You’re still REALLY reaching in order to crowbar in a reference to mansplaining and you’re completely missing the point.

Why? If females give birth, shouldn’t the label “female” be sufficient? Isn’t female the sex, but these people identify as a gender other than “woman?”

The funny thing is that it really only happens while I’m on the road. As others have pointed out it’s probably that I’m not washing my hands frequently or thoroughly enough, but I do plan to bring it up at my next physical and get my doctor’s take on it.

I get that all the time. I specifically programmed a watchface for my smart watch that identifies what city I’m in so I don’t have to look like an idiot when I can’t remember what location I’m working at.

Interesting thought, but I don’t think I’m eating anything too radically different. It’s mostly dollar-menu fast food except for the end of my trip where I try to do a steak dinner or something similarly up-scale.

I never touch the remote in my hotel room because I don’t use the TV. That’s what my laptop/iPad are for. As for cleaning my hands, yes I could definitely do better as my job includes quite a bit of manual labor. Good advice.

No, because they’re changing which socially-constructed gender they identify with. There’s no changing what sex you were at birth.

For whatever reason I’ve had an abnormally high rate of food poisoning/getting violently ill lately, but it’s pretty much exclusively while I’m traveling for work. I had one bout where I woke up in the middle of the night, puked REALLY HARD for a couple of minutes, then went back to sleep and felt pretty much fine the…

Because gender and sex aren’t the same thing anymore. Sex is a group of physical/biological traits. Gender is literally anything you want it to be. So I can be born biologically male but identify as a quasi-queer asexual transformic androfemme.

Good for you. Your post lacked the usual 6-paragraph disclaimer that no offense was intended and you’re just an ignoramus trying to emerge from the foggy cave of blank-ism into the shining daylight of wokeness, so I didn’t recognize it for what it was.

As soon as something is accepted it walks a dangerously fine line where it risks becoming the dreaded “status quo” which must obviously be rejected if not overthrown. The only acceptable things are those that were recently taboo. If the taboo is too far in the past you have to complain about it and find a more recent…

Funny how the extreme left and extreme right make a lot of the same arguments. Sure, they come at it from different angles, but “Date your own kind” is still “Date your own kind.”

Well said. Double standard.

Would it be better if the bathroom said “Female?”

It’s good that you’re open to corrections because you’re going to get more corrections than you can handle. Maybe grab some ice cream and settle in. Preferably with a flame-retardant blanket.