Studies have actually shown small drops in IQ with each place down in birth order.

Oh my gosh, I'm named after her too! Gender and work patterns in immigrant communities is super interesting (to me, anyway).

They may not work for you, which is totally valid, but I think it's pretty obvious they work for thousands of women.

Her comment really didn't strike me as judgmental. Are you really arguing that we aren't conditioned to treat natural bodily functions with unnecessary disgust? (Feces are a vector for disease and parasites, so it makes sense that you wouldn't want to interact with them. [Although, if you check with someone changing…

That seems odd! I've never had an issue with leaving it in when using the bathroom. I wonder if your cup was too large or something?

Hmm, maybe not all day, but you'd definitely be down to once or twice. It's definitely pretty amazing to be able to totally forget about your period for long stretches.

Obviously they aren't for everyone (the OP seems a little evangelical for my taste), but there are actually quite a few brands—the Diva cup is among the largest. There's a livejournal community that has a comparison chart for all the brands and a whole bunch of helpful advice. As other people said, there's no issue…

Nope, you dump the blood in the toilet, and there's no need to rinse the cup before reinserting. You don't need to change it as often as a tampon (I usually just have to do once a day), so many women won't even have to change it during their workday.

Fun fact: normal discharge acidity varies from person to person; if the crotch of your underwear wears out faster than the rest of it you might just be more acidic!

No, nuns as an institution are not feminist. There are plenty of really cool, badass, feminist nuns—I know some of them!—and many orders do a huge amount of charity and social justice work that is incredibly valuable. But an institution that restricts sexuality as a prerequisite for membership and is part of a church…

That's always been the case in Orthodox communities (at least in terms of working, less so in terms of education). It's part of the reason Jewish women were at the forefront of labor organizing during early twentieth century. Interesting stuff!

That must be the kids getting thousands whenever they want skewing the normal people, right? I got a buck a week and that was in the last decade, too.

Did Roseanne just come out or did that joke go over my head?

Yes, a negative response always proves someone's point. A+ logic there.

Oh, god. My grandfather kept needing my help with his computer. Most I've ever regretted snooping.

Well, they should tell the census bureau then.

Jews don't make up the largest ethnic group in any county. That's not erasure, that's a demographic fact. The listed ethnicities (self-identified) are those that make up the largest group in any county.

Most African-Americans are descendants of slaves and obviously have no way of knowing exactly what their ethnicities are. Because this is self-reported data, it's apparent that the number of African-Americans who do identify with a particular African ethnicity is not enough to make up a majority in any American county.

This is where the information comes from. (Honestly, it seems weird to me that there's only room for two or maybe three ethnicities—I would have thought most white Americans with American-born parents had a greater mix than that. I wouldn't have the faintest clue how to fill that out.)

I'm presuming this is based on census data, which allows for self-identification.