I’ve gone up and down the size chart more than once since puberty and my thighs have always touched most of the way down, I think I just have The Curse of The Eternal Camel Toe.

Yeah, doing that wide-stance leg shake to try and shimmy them back down into place is not a long-term solution.

For me at least, they’re two separate issues: chub rub is the chafing I get between my upper, most tender thigh-bits without some sort of anti-chafing gel or barrier. Clam jam is shorts riding up into my hoo-ha region (yet another reason I usually wear dresses and skirts, but sometimes you just want shorts!)

Ugh, thighs! Shorts!

I may have to resign myself to doing that and buying a bunch of pairs of whatever works.

It is really cute, I hope you get to enjoy it for a while! I’m strangely fascinated by citrus prints. I was actually looking seriously at a pair of Talbots pants with a similar lemon print. I don’t know what happened to me.

While we’re complaining about shorts and summer clothing remedies, can someone please tell me for the love of little green apples is there a way to make my crotch stop eating my shorts? I have these visions of wearing a lovely floaty sheer embroidered top over shorts but then it’s all a clam jam up in there and I…

Gold Bond anti-chafing stick also works well, is pleasingly free of a lady version with a pink container and higher price (as far as I know), and is great if it’s so hot you can’t contemplate adding bike shorts or some other under-layer to the mix.

That too!

Fuck hats, I want Beatrice’s dress.

“it seems awfully convenient that Offred happened to be with child at the very moment her life depended on it—especially considering that’s not what happens in the book.”

Also, you only mentioned it obliquely but I am glad you are in a better situation now re: your relationships. Thanks again for your advice.

Thanks for this! I’m hoping to get my IUD switched out at my annual exam so the insertion will be covered under the well-woman checkup (while we still have such things!) and the fact that it’s good for ten years is a major plus that might outweigh any other factors. I know I don’t want any more kids and I don’t want…

Now I need to see the Bloomer ensembles!

I’m continually grateful to my mom for encouraging me to go to an all-girls high school and I’m looking forward to sending my daughter to my alma mater - if she wants. I know it’s not for everyone but in a culture that is so saturated with male voices, male opinions, male leaders, men helping other men up the career…

I love the name “Renovating Pills”, like I’m going to be adding a sunroom to my uterus.

Well, the Ladyline Antiseptic Suppositories ad does say that they were also for curing “difficult or delayed menstruation” which I think was code for inducing an abortion.

I would like Son of Scissorhands to just have like...tweezers or nailclippers. Or those giant, dull, plastic scissors you get in kindergarten.

Seconding this. My gyno told me that my IUD and insertion would have been 100% covered if I’d gotten it done as part of my annual well-woman exam, but since I wasn’t, I had to pay out of pocket.

When you say your periods are heavier now, what were your periods like with the Mirena? I currently have a Mirena that’s due to be replaced soon and I’d like to switch to the non-hormonal for the same reasons you mention, but I’ve really loved not having a period other than super light spotting occasionally. So I’m…