As a woman and primary care doctor myself, there’s no medical recommendation or reason for annual pelvic exams to renew birth control prescriptions. Find yourself a new doctor if he/she refuses to change that policy.

This really isn’t that surprising if you’ve followed the numbers over the years. These two albums have been neck-and-neck for the #1 spot for over twenty years; I found this out when I got curious about which album was the best-selling one of all time and looked it up while I was an undergrad in the early 90s. Even…

I love the way you put some much of what I’ve thought into words. And while I really don’t want to fawn and blithely speculate, because she seems to be a good person and deserves privacy, she’s also pretty remarkable, and talking about things in the relative confined space of this thread seems preferable to tossing…

SO TRUE. And even the men who don’t exactly hate women tend to take it WAY too seriously when women legitimately compete with them.

As a Tennessee woman, Diane Black would be a NIGHTMARE as governor. Stepford wife all the way. Marsha Blackburn, who’s running for Congress, is a fundamentalist evangelical Christian who won’t be happy until The Handmaid’s Tale is an instruction manual and not a novel.

This is quite interesting.

Michael, thank you for writing these articles. This is the kind of history that must not be forgotten or swept under the rug, or it’ll continue to happen indefinitely.

As a former GK, I LOVED penalty kicks. Absolutely loved them.

That’s impressive.

At this point the only thing that’s shown to even slow the Trump supporters down is public outcry and shaming, a la Sanders at the Red Hen.  

McConnell has single-handedly become the biggest liar and hypocrite in a party made up almost entirely of liars and hypocrites, an impressive accomplishment, and he’s essentially broken Congress.  

Oh, of COURSE they will try to go that far. Many of today’s Republicans have shown that they’re willing to KILL to “protect” fetuses from being aborted. Passing legislation that takes womens’ rights away is petty change compared to that.

This kind of behavior, which I’ve faced several times in chat, is absolutely why I won’t voice chat in any online games, with ONE exception (which I’ll detail in a minute). The best game I’ve ever experienced as a woman was City of Heroes, which I still miss. There was almost no misogyny in the chat channels, and the…

Would it be more clear if she refused to wear a jersey symbolizing African-American History? Or women’s rights? Or ANY OTHER civil right?

I cannot give this enough stars.

I love this far more than I should.

He’s also put this doctor under legal crosshairs. A physician is legally required to maintain a copy of each patient’s medical records for ten years. (At least in the state of Tennessee; it could be a different length of time in New York state.) If Trump’s goons have seized the only copy of the medical records, that’s…

It was exactly like what it felt (and sounded) like at the end of Empire. I remember that so, so well.

Madeleine, thank you for this review and for calling them out on this.

A tool I found extremely helpful over the years was this gem that ran in an old Dragon magazine many years ago. It was called the Wandering Damage Table. It was exactly what it sounds like. Rules lawyer or new troublesome player starts a fuss? Make a roll. “Oh, hey, you take 10-100 dmg. No visible cause.” If he/she…