The HS is the immune problem ... probably. These are deep abscesses that just look like purple or flesh colored bumps on the surface, but are up to 3/4” deep into the dermis, with “tunnels” in the tissue (that’s why the excisions have been long and deep enough to require two layers of stitching).

The more I think about this, the more furious I get. While donating PTO seems like the right thing to do, it is merely enabling a shitty company to continue shitty labor policies. A much better use of those days is to take them all at once and strike for reasonable leave policies or fuck it, just walk out and wildcat…

Not only did I not give up PTO or agree to work time off so parents could go to kid events, I had a note from my doctor saying it was medically necessary for me to have weekends off.

I’ve been given a dx of HS for the incredibly painful abscesses I get on my vulva, which means it’s not uncommon for me to have at least 7 stitches in the woohoo from a wedge incision. Although the last one was so deep and wide it had to be packed instead of stitched - fun, and was on the threshold of needing real…

And lastly, they believe their gender prevents some Republican voters from voting for them

Fox & Friends told him to do that. Not kidding.

... and it’s such a fucking mind-blowing mystery to some that women have figured out that we don’t have to have children, so a lot of us aren’t.

She’s insanely funny, and she knows and loves the show, so she’s a perfect choice. That she’s a woman and a woman of color are bonuses.

My Hot Take™️ on this hot take is that 90% of the Hot Takez have been about Cohen getting politicians to go along with his outrageous KinderGuardian idea. There’s been a few about the art dealer taking what was literally shit art seriously and that doesn’t leave much, so this is valid territory.

So it’s an ill wind that blows some good, maybe? Yvette Nicole Brown is fantastic (or should that be super-fan tastic?) and TV gets a little less white. 

Unfortunately there is misogyny poisoning just about anything. It seems to me, though, that some of this “claiming” isn’t meant maliciously; it’s just marginalized people looking for to show the world they’ve always existed, and have been of value, and I get that. Joan of Arc being anything other than a cis woman just…

Since writing my answer about Joan of Arc, I’ve learned a bit more about Gill, and he did prefer masculine pronouns, according to his cousin, but was more likely what would be now called “nonbinary” or “genderqueer.” I’m fine with respecting the opinion of a family member who knew him, and I think his story is too…

I don’t know about Tex Gill (that’s one good thing about this - I’ve learned something) but I do know about Joan of Arc. She had very practical reasons for dressing in male clothing, aside from her “voices,” especially during her captivity: she feared being raped. The transcripts of her interrogations and trial exist;…

I have not been super impressed with her acting. She hasn’t been horrific but she hasn’t been amazing in anything. What she has been is very pretty with a lovely figure, especially a few years ago, when her looks were so distracting it was easier to overlook her merely passable acting. I was hoping she’d get better as…

My grandmother, who had two illegal abortions and lived to be 98, was known to ask exactly when she was supposed to feel ‘regret’ or ‘remorse’ over them.

Confirms my love of Terry Crews and Thandie Newton. 

Thank you. That bothered the fuck out of me as well. I had a completely voluntary and informed hydrothermal ablation (I’m a nullapara, and at that time, devices like NovaSure and other electrocautery devices didn’t have attachments small enough for my uterus). There is no way in hell any pregnancy could survive any…

I think she was a “model” in the way that some people with a camera fancy themselves to be “photographers.” Yes, technically, under the loosest definition of those terms, but is anyone lining up to pay/publish you? Yeah no. 

I only mention this because she made her living on her physical appearance: she’s not an attractive woman. Thin lips, squinty eyes, something weird going on in the pelvic region, thin hair that even with expensive coloring manages to look boring.

Right, but considering the hoops a woman who hasn’t given birth has to jump through to get sterilized, I’m pretty damn sure anyone undergoing general anesthesia and laparoscopic surgery is really sure she wants it done. Because, you know, women aren’t stupid.