It’s also exposure through the mucosal membrane of the inner labia - some women spread it all open to dust the entire surface of the vulva, that’s where most of the problems come. A dusting at the top of your thighs is unlikely to have the same effect (though still not recommended obvs).

Hm. These are a lot like pregnancy symptoms as well - women can’t catch a break!

Having pubes helps with that :) Also breathable cotton underwear for the win!

Depends on what you`re feeding them - I wouldn`t cook mashed bananas or avocado :)

I looked around my kitchen and then looked at the stupid baby themed food blender that had been handed down to me (what was wrong with my regular multi-purpose blender??), and then I looked at my baby and thought: fuck this noise! I would put half a banana (or steamed veggie or whatever I was making for dinner for my…

Ditto for me! I do remember being terrified at the thought of going blind in ‘84 (I was in third or fourth grade), our school just went on total lockdown to avoid any chance of idiot kids taking their future vision into their own hands...

It brought out all the weirdos actually - the pharmacist in Dakar who sold me my antibiotics was practically salivating to check it out, and my bf was having way too much fun playing doctor. People are weird :)

I used to get them all the time too! And definitely worse when I shaved than when I waxed. They were super painful though (especially when running or biking) so my doctor gave me a prescription strength antibiotic cream to use when they flared up, just the pain relief was magical, nevermind that it halved the time it…

hand held mirrors helped me through that phase :) That, using an electric razor with a clipper guard and not caring if it was even or looked good, I just wanted it short!

You shouldn’t quit carbs anyway - at least not the whole grain unrefined/unprocessed variety. They’re *good* for you (yes, even, gasp, gluten containing carbs). They’re an essential source of all kinds of energy, lovely minerals and vitamins and fibre that your body needs. Fat is also good for you. It’s not carbs and…

Pfft, whatever, at least someone left something in trade. You want serious garden violation*?? Several years ago someone stole one of my basil plants and a handful of garlic from my community garden. Fuckers. When I wanted to post a sign to remind grazers to please take food from the open community plot, and not the…

I thought of this exactly when I saw something posted this past weekend about Hilary Duff’s “cellulite” photo from a day at the beach with her kid (which was really just an untouched, or an unflatteringly retouched “IRL” photo - which wasn’t even unflattering, it just made her look human instead of smoothly plastic).…

It’s really offputting! And these kinds of revelations always make me think of pictures of Christie Brinkley in the 80s, posing in bikinis with folds in her waist/stomach on full display - she was hot for pete’s sake!

Wow, so the “normals” really have no chance whatsoever... And no wonder plastic surgery IRL looks so weird!!

Especially when you consider that it’s 30% of a proportion of the population. It sounds like he thinks he got 30% of the Cuban-American vote, which maybe he did, but that’s (thank you wikipedia) 3.5% of the overall Hispanic population, or half a percent of the general US population.

lol... yes I learned on my first trip in Brisbane years ago to always check my shoes.

Well sure, but Australian wildlife is legit terrifying - and I say that as someone who has had both bear and coyote encounters. But the most uncomfortable I have ever felt in my life in nature was on a 2 hour hike in the Blue Mountains with my husband, *convinced* that one of your damned spiders was going to get me...

Well sure, but can you name the last time you used that word to describe a man’s overwrought emotional response...?

Not really, and I’m really not trying to be smug about this - I do try to think critically about the accumulation of useless crap in my life, but I’m also not arguing that I don’t fall into those traps on occasion, I just take issue with the notion that these kinds of choices are made in a vaccuum free of external…

People give it that “damned misogynistic connotation” because the root of the word is “hystera”, the ancient Greek for uterus.