Oh, this this this. Doctors refused to take my hip pain seriously for 14 years because of my weight. It got to the point where I was using a cane in my mid-30s. Finally, I got one to send me for an x-ray. Then he sent me for an MRI to confirm. Turns out I was born with hip dysplasia. 42 years of clumsiness and pain…

TomboyX makes a nice variety of them, actually, in different lengths, a wide range of sizes. They’re gender neutral but as someone with annoyingly dramatic feminine curves, I can verify that they’re comfy.

Ponderosa was one of the only places my rural poor family went out to eat when I was growing up in the ‘70s and ‘80s. A few times a year, Mom would clip coupons from the Sunday paper and tell us to lie about our ages if we had crossed the threshold to adult meals. The only meat we ever had at home was ground beef or…

Ditto for Detroit. In fact, I was disgusted that my city went on bended knee begging Amazon to come.

Like many of you, PCOS gave me an enviable goatee. I’ve lost my ovaries (fucking cancer) and take estrogen now, I know my hormone levels are “normal”, but I never know where the next hair might appear. Mustache? Fringe on my chin? Spreading across my cheeks? Or one of those damned hairs I find on my neck when they’re…

I don’t know if that’s exactly the case. While I think Bardot has nothing to contribute to this story because of her racist and sexist views, I don’t think she’s looking back and evaluating the past with today’s eyes. She doesn’t have today’s perspective and neither do some of the other older women who have recently…

There was a beautiful episode of the new “One Day at a Time” on Netflix, season one, in which three generations of women debated feminism in their own way and their own understanding. The grandmother had found power in learning how to flatter and manipulate, using her femininity. The working mother had opportunities…

I’m almost done with it and yeah, it’a a good read/listen (I got the audiobook). My interpretation is that it’s about 75% factual, 20% conjecture, and 5% fantasy. Considering that he’s writing about a celebrity, not a political figure, charismatic leader, respected scholar — you know, the sort of person I’d like to…

I’m almost done with it and yeah, it’a a good read/listen (I got the audiobook). My interpretation is that it’s about 75% factual, 20% conjecture, and 5% fantasy. Considering that he’s writing about a celebrity, not a political figure, charismatic leader, respected scholar — you know, the sort of person I’d like to…

It released on Audible today and I’ve been binge-listening while running errands, cooking, using the bathroom, showering.... I’m not sure how I’m going to keep listening when I go into the office, but dammit, I’m going to try. I haven’t heard anything surprising yet, but that’s a sad and horrible fact, given the…

It released on Audible today and I’ve been binge-listening while running errands, cooking, using the bathroom, showering.... I’m not sure how I’m going to keep listening when I go into the office, but dammit, I’m going to try. I haven’t heard anything surprising yet, but that’s a sad and horrible fact, given the…

The percentage of the country that thinks we’re headed toward another civil war, right now, is not insignificant. Even historians are raising those odds. However, were someone else in the White House (almost anyone else, ffs), we’d still have a functioning federal government to try to hold things together. A structure…

Hahahahaha!

Mommy Dearest still provides the best example for me when I try to explain my mother to others. People see much of it as pure camp, but I lived through scenes not very different. And yeah.. years later, they’re some funny as hell stories. They sucked for the first couple decades, though.

This is the same woman who once — decades ago, when I was an impressionable young woman — said in an interview that she’d never let her husband see her wiggling into pantyhose, with the implication that such a sight is so disgustingly unfeminine and unattractive that he wouldn’t consider her an appealing woman any…

And I swear that’s 75% of the appeal of amateur porn, too.

I see that Organix has now changed to OGX... have they redesigned their bottles to be easier to open? I loved their Awapuhi ginger hair products but I have hand problems and found their containers simply impossible to open and squeeze. My husband decanted them into other bottles for me for a while, but then I just…

A lot of people say the same thing you do. There’s some self-righteousness in there that you may not have intended (serve “for the right reasons”... really?) and I think that attitude does harm to the organizations that need our support. In fact, it encourage the sort of holiday volunteering mentioned in the article.

We live in this annoyingly puritanical time, however, where if you’re not perfectly aligned with the ideals of your “side” you are wrong and evil and stupid and shouldn’t have a job or be able to raise kids or whatever else people now judge you unworthy of. The extremes to both left and right are intolerant prudish…

MrUnfollowed and I excel at puzzles, we take an occasional off-grid vacation, we’re fine being lost in a country where we don’t speak the language, and we both have a wealth of complementary practical skills. We get along wonderfully and consider each other rational and competent. However, if we need to share a canoe…