One more note: I just started digging into the opinion and it’s worded in a way that it could easily be applied to cases of gender identity based discrimination. It effectively undoes the decision in Ulane, which is what arguments that Title VII does not afford trans plaintiffs protection rely on.

The court can only rule on the case in front of them, and the appellant in this case is cisgender.

I haven’t read through the opinion yet but just from scanning through it, it looks like Posner’s concurring opinion is....Posner-y. He describes LGBT folks as “normal in all the ways that count”.

On the whole, I haven’t found a big difference in maturity between myself and guys my age. I’ve met some guys who are in their 40s and 50s who are super immature and some guys my own age or a little younger who are very mature. It’s certainly an argument that I’ve heard floated by much older dudes in regard to dating…

I feel the same way. I find dating to be exhausting and think that it would eventually hit a place of diminishing returns. There have been a few times in my life when I’ve had a bunch of dates with different people in a row and by the third or fourth one I don’t even want to go, not because of the people but because…

Yes. While a little disappointing, men who don’t want long term relationships or kids who also refuse to date women over 35 at least make sense because they can just keep replacing partners.

I don’t think I breathed for the entire hour. The portrayal of abuse was so realistic through the whole series. It was both uncomfortable/triggery to watch but also, in a really twisted way, kind of reassuring. Like: other people see that it can go like this, too. That you sometimes feel super in love with your abuser…

In situations like this one I actually prefer ghosting to the gentle letdown. Who wants to have the awkward “I’m just not that into you and/or there are a bunch better upgrades” conversation?

Once you get to a certain age, depending on who you like to date, I don’t know how much the binders would matter.

OMG yes to #2 and 3.

We read Handmaid’s Tale last month for one of the book clubs I’m in with the idea that we’ll watch the last episode of the series together. It’s a mixed group in regard to gender and race but we’re mostly all the same age.

*Spoiler alert*

Oh woahhh. Mine is definitely not working. Thank you for the photo!

I have/had adult cystic acne on my face, back and butt. I read about dangene and on a trip to New York I majorly splurged and made an appointment and it was so worth it.

I feel kind of dumb asking this but: are you supposed to see the lights? I have that mask, too, and while my face sometimes feels a little warm, I don’t see anything. If the timer didn’t countdown the uses, I would think it wasn’t turned on.

I’m not married but in my former career doing sex education I worked with a lot of married couples, so I hope it’s ok if I chime in:

In 2000, he wrote a book about Bill and Monica. A few years later, this happened:

And he has seasons three and four of American Crime Story already sorted out. I am an A+ procrastinator (I am doing it right now, in fact!) so his ability to have so much locked down in advance is impressive.

Aww look at her little checkerboard face! She looks like she is definitely full of tortitude and means business. My heart goes out to you in your rough mental health season. I’ve had a lot of those over the years and I think tortis especially know somehow.

Oh sweet angel! Tortis are tough little fighters, and it sounds like your parents are too if they opened their hearts to a FIV baby. I wish more FIV kitties had good homes!