I work with a couple of clients in res care with aphasia and I think you are on to something, except I can usually suss out what my clients are trying to get across.

no, “This” is not why that occurs. “This” is merely a measure of the prior selective bias in our society which affords fewer true educational opportunities and less support for people of color, and women, and generally anyone who isn’t a straight white male. Why it occurs is because we, on the whole, decline to do…

I think it was just unexpected. I guess it’s one thing if you want to look it up, but I suppose I took away the choice. I think they’re kind of cool though. I love the latticed ribbon detail on every thing.

I made one mistake and I TOTALLY knew better. Damn you Denver!

I just could not understand it. BC was also crazy cheap and OTC. I was on depo at the time or else I would hav gotten a year supply of that as well.

So, you were that kid who always argued with the teacher about the technicalities of the question structure?

The rays were drawn in finite space (of course) but had arrowheads on them, which is the symbol used to show they extend to infinity, which is the definition of a ray.

The rays converge at a point on the opposite side. That is what a magnifying glass does.

Overpopulation is a problem is a tried and true solution: reliable access to birth control and reproductive rights for women.

Why you would agree with China’s population control measures when a better solution exists is beyond me.

So...anecdotes time! My mom and other family friends think women can only use tampons after marriage or else it’s “obscene”. Literally, they told me that “it was against the law for unmarried women to purchase tampons (in the US)“ and I believed them. I was basically not allowed to go to swim team practice anymore…

It should be OTC and it should be cheap. It’s ridiculous that it’s not here.

I couldn’t either, and I tried many, many times.

Please see the other discussion threads between me and Ladyology clarifying the anecdotal experience VS global expectation aspect of this conversation! Not here to negate your personal particular experience, here to counter dominant narrative that pain should be expected/should be the norm (which is biologically false…

Surely you can see why the reverse expectation - “if you experience pain and bleeding upon losing your virginity, then something is wrong with you/your partner/your sex” - is equally harmful.

and it got better.

Yes, it’s one of the eternal myths that sex is always supposed to hurt the first time for women, which is sometimes not the case, and it’s a problem because patriarchal forces have socialized women (and much worse, men) into believing it. Regardless of your blatant logical fallacy, because that is not what I said in…

That’s not what I said at all. It’s a myth that it’s supposed to ALWAYS hurt the first time and girls should just deal with it because it’s normal and expected. I never said that it doesn’t hurt for any women the first time. Of course it does, depending on the woman and her unique body. Everyone’s body is different.…

Okaaaay, well, if we want to get specific, then it’s a myth that A GREAT DEAL of pain, tearing, and bleeding is a perfectly normal, should be expected thing that should be ignored and not carefully dealt with.

My wife grew up in Lithuania under Soviet rule and I have a number of acquaintances and friends who grew up in the USSR as well. Trust me, “We don’t have sex in the USSR—we reproduce” was a common saying. The woman on Donohue was full of shit.

Off topic sort of. My Mother is West African and we go home every year or so to visit family etc. A few years ago I was celebrating my birthday and got trashed slept with some cute expat at a bar. Long story short needed Plan B. Walked to the pharmacy by my Moms house and bought it for the equivalent of 3$ U.S. I…