See, this doesn't make sense to me, but instead reinforces cultural gender specific expectations. From the get go, females and males are funneled into activities that their genders are expected to participate in. Girls are infrequently encouraged into sports or activities that require heavy lifting and upper body…

Oh. My. We need more of this. Lots more.

It's soooo frustrating. I miss my mouth half the time. Most of the food ends up stuck to my clothes. At that point, I give up, fall asleep on the floor, and let the cats lick the food off of me.

Y'all forget, she has to cover up that special underwear.

Aye, I've received hostile glances and comments from ob/gyns when I inform them that I have no intentions of having children. That's when I pick up and go to another ob/gyn. The last one was especially terrible because she didn't explain what she was doing as she was doing it, which I think is requisite whenever…

If you want to hear more about her experiences APM's The Story conducted a remarkable interview with her earlier this year. http://thestory.org/archive/the_story_020212.mp3/view

I wonder if it was like determining the lens prescription for glasses when they get really, really close:

Yeah, really, I don't care unless the practitioner cares, and, then, I preach my, "If you don't want to or it doesn't feel right, then don't and it's really up to you and it's more important to be present yada yada yada" line. I really only care if you're pregnant or have some chronic condition or an injury that might…

Why, thank you kindly.

Wordasana. I teach yoga, and it always struck me as a little dubious as to why I would NOT do inversions during my period and swami forbid questioning this during training. Yoga texts, written by menz, have some pretty chauvinistic notions. Totally second you on the "...listening to YOUR OWN body." Peaceoutasana.

HIPAA. Sorry.

Phht. Meredith Viera is where it's at. Let's get The View hostesses to moderate and interrogate reunion style.

Exactly. For the most part, it's called HIPPA, patient's privacy protection. She is out of HIPPA compliance - possibly. Quite frequently, you'll sign a form that declares you understand your HIPPA rights as well as describes them.

Weren't there a few articles published on Jezebel about links between social media and depression? I found this one here, http://jezebel.com/5829006/kids-facebook-use-linked-to-lower-grades-psychological-disorders, about children who use facebook and possibly suffer from anxiety and depression as well as maybe being…

From the title I thought this was going to be about family planning and how, if you'd just seen a cute, little baby leopard at the zoo, you would be disappointed in your own offspring...because, uh, they don't mew and aren't covered in spots and aren't soft and fuzzy.

It's funny day on Jezebel. After a couple of days of force feeding my cat and cleaning his butt, I can really appreciate this. (Kitty is well, now.)

This is hilarious...because racing.

Ah, when I climbed 12-who-knows-how-many hours a week, I could eat anything. However, after a shoulder injury and a move out of the climbing industry, I stopped climbing and only moderately reduced my caloric intake. Moderate was not enough. It's continued to shock me how much less I need to eat on, what I would…

Don't forget about Tacoma. We're coming up in the world of coffee roasting. Valhalla and Bluebeard both make excellent roasts, specialty and every day.

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