Right? When my flow was bad I was changing a super plus every hour and still had to have a massive pad because of leakage. Changing your fucking panties every hour? No thanks. My dr thought I had fibroids, which turns out I didn’t, so she gave me an IUD, and it has been a game changer.

I had the same terrible periods. I went to my GP, she checked me for fibroids with an ultrasound (godawful internal) and when I was cleared (didn’t have ‘em, thank god) she hooked me up with Mirena. IT HAS CHANGED MY LIFE.

Colin has a different Mom, no? Maybe that’s the factor - he had another household to go to to get normal-ed, whereas Chet was full “Hanks” all the time.

Thank you for posting a sensitive comment about the issue, without being a body shaming jerk like 70% of the commenters here today.

Some people eat copuis amounts of food and still are very very thin. (Source: me at 18, my currently 22 year old female cousin, my 14 year old son.) None of us are or were malnourished, and it does nothing to help them feel comfortable in their apparently disgusting bodies to have people talk about them like that.…

I have to agree. I am totally on board with not making “skinny” the be all and end all of what a “woman” *should* look like, but as a tall super skinny teen, I looked similar, and would get the hateful comments about being “anorexic” and “eat a burger”. I know there isn’t as much of a hate on for skinny girls, and…

The priest at my husband’s church wears Tevas (with black socks, ew.) The ex was a bit of a weirdo, the sandals to church thing was simply the “last straw” moment.

I guess for some the symbolism means more. It’s a matter of perspective. If a piddly admin with a bone to pick takes away the paper, it doesn’t take away the achievement.

She has the credits, just not the stupid piece of paper. I wish she wasn’t so upset about the piece of paper.

Funny you say that- I was planning on attending Mass with an ex (he was a bf at the time), and he was right pissed off that I was wearing sandals, his words “You can’t wear SANDALS to CHURCH.” (They were Birkenstocks, the “fancy” ones) My comeback “Fuck Dude, Jesus wore sandals ALL THE TIME.” And I walked out. That…

Sure. Still doesn’t make it okay to censor everything that makes us feel angry or mad. I’m just not comfortable that those grad students felt that they could prosecute her.

I stayed in an underground hotel in the Australian desert! It gets so hot there that it makes more sense for the town to be almost entirely subterranean. Cool!

Alternatively, my neighbours just redid their front lawn with this stuff. It looks good. No water.

The essay reads as though she is putting out the “he said” against the “she said” version of the grad student account, and the “melodrama” is kind of separate to the specific rape allegation? That was my take, but I read it on friday, maybe I read it too fast. I don’t want to sound like I am supporting Ludlow (I am…

It could do way more damage to her professional reputation to escalate it before she talks to him. Absolutely the onus on him is to not leer at her boobs. Of course. But if she doesn’t bring it up with him first, and launches an attack by going to administration, then it is public, and not only does he have the…

We (as women) spend so much time not wanting to be uncomfortable that we build shit up internally until it winds up being a sexual harassment suit before it was even talked about between two intelligent adults. Is he being a dick? Yep. Call him out on it. Guys do it all the time. And it generally works in their…

I am not insinuating she be KIND I am saying we all need to act like ADULTS. In normal society if someone is doing something offensive you talk to them about it, with words. Like an ADULT. I am not fucking victim blaming, I am not even condoning his actions. All I said was it didn’t sound like she even called him out…

2 of my friends and I pretended we were a death metal group called “Fist Parade”, our hits included “I Have Airborne Syphilis” and “Herpes in my Spine”. (I shit you not. This is what we told people.) Of course we trotted out the “Fist Parade” lies when traveling abroad, and there were several occasions when people…

In the US?

This is great advice. Why did it take to the bottom of the comments to find someone who said “Talk to him about it”. There is no need to be passive-aggressive, or launch a full on assault (ie escalate it immediately) without talking to the guy. There was nothing in the post that showed she had done that. Sigh.