I don’t like the birth control analogy. Was there a reduction in parking lot assaults when women’s spaces were installed? Is there actual data about the number of women assaulted in parking lots? Is it comparable to places where they’ve upgraded the entire parking garage and changed it back to non-gendered spaces,…

This article is disturbingly lacking in any information about whether or not it *actually* reduced assault, by a tiny or large %.

Seriously, I’m no spring chicken, but I look better than that.

Gorgeous! Do people give you grief about it not being a diamond? Both my mother and grandmother have emeralds, and random people used to comment on it all the time in that joking-not joking way (oh, so your marriage isn’t forever since you didn’t get a diamond, he must not really love you since you didn’t get a…

How long do the hairs need to grow out before you can epillate (is that the verb?) again? In the summer I want smooth legs pretty much all the time so if I’ve got to spend a week or two stubbly, that’s only going to work for me in the winter.

Given that we can all agree that leg-shaving is a moderate to extreme pain in the ass (depending on your patience) how does the pain of ripping out leg hairs compare to the annoyance of shaving? How often do you need to do it? How long does it take? I’ve been wondering about those for a while!

In my state, it’s illegal for my employer to ask about my family situation, or why I’m taking sick leave. That’s why we have a set amount of sick leave, and we don’t have to beg or explain to the boss when ourselves/children/parents/etc get sick. My coworkers with children do put a burden on the rest of the office-…

Fuck that shit! My brother does all the cooking for his family, my boyfriend does all the cooking in our house, and my dad has done all the cooking for him and my mom for years and years (including adapting his recipes to Weight Watchers when my mom wanted to lose weight). My nephew is shaping up to be quite the wee…

I disagree. I have a lot of sick time saved up compared to my coworkers, mainly because I don’t have kids, but I don’t think the amount of time you’re allowed off (vacation or sick time) should be determined by your family situation. I have a childless worker who uses most of his sick time caring for his parents, and…

My work has a very generous sick leave policy, and my boyfriend only gets PTO (sick leave and vacation lumped together). If he takes sick days, it means we can’t go on a vacation. I imagine when we get around to kids, I’ll be doing the bulk of the sick time.

My dad too! My mom had to be at work early in the mornings, so my dad did the entire wake kids up-get dressed-yes you have to wear underwear- eat breakfast-pack lunch-dishes-laundry-walk to school, including hot breakfasts almost every morning and funny poems packed in my lunch. Mom did after school/daycare pickup and…

A much better version of that video (to a different song):

Personally, I think being a feminist means that you can want to look however you want, but you don’t get to judge other women if they use other standards of beauty. I’m vain as fuck about my hair (it’s very feminine), but I don’t think that a woman that goes out in public without “doing” her hair (or having a buzz…

I am spelling challenged, and auto-correct cannot help me all the time. My mother loves to tell the story of my fifth-grade report on the “Assignations of John F. Kennedy” which probably would have been fascinating, if I hadn’t actually written about the “Assassination of John F. Kennedy.”

Word. For some reason, my body can’t produce antibodies for chicken pox (I have an otherwise fully respectable immune system) so I get it over and over again. It is... less than ideal. I’m confused about why people who CAN get a vaccine and avoid something like that would chose not to (also it would benefit me if more…

Because manspreaders always and only fly Southwest? That hasn’t been my experience.

I just went through two rounds of serious antibiotics and I think that’s an *actual* gut cleanse. While I’m glad to live in an age of antibiotics, my gut is not. Avoid if at all possible.

Sorry that a) I didn’t wait for your correction before responding; b) I didn’t read every pending response to every comment before responding to your comment to me; c) you feel attacked because not everyone here could read your mind and distinguish between what you meant and what you said.

Nobody’s attacking you over BV. But saying that “MOST women” get BV after IUD is not supported by science, and that kind of misinformation might steer someone away from an IUD who could benefit from it. There’s a world of difference between “I know this is a possible side effect because it happened to me” and “Having…

A quick search of the medical literature that I can find indicates that an IUD does not actually increase the odds of bacterial vaginosis over other forms of birth control. Do you have a source for “MOST women?”