How the hell did I type "gauged" and not "gouged"? I've been touch typing for years. I wouldn't have thought having no eyeballs would be a hindrance.

Both reasons. The rent has been raised significantly just like the rest of San Francisco. You can read about that here: http://bit.ly/171ba9J But numbers have been declining for some time, most likely due to the ease and availability of internet porn.

Interesting. I guess I missed the nuanced understanding there what with already having gauged my eyeballs out by that point. Thanks for the clarification.

I was one of the original organizers. To some extent we were already a step ahead because we were defined as employees and paid a wage, as opposed to being defined, however inaccurately, as contract workers, which is how most clubs operate. The hourly wage kept us from being in too much competition with each other to…

One of the first things that impressed me (and also my father) about my ex was that he had a really extensive vocabulary about very complex scientific, philosophical and political ideas, yet many of the terms he pronounced incorrectly because he had actually learned them from reading books, as opposed to just…

I don't think they all do but this can happen. Which is why the tests warn you not to check results of tests that have sat longer than a certain amount of time (ten minutes? half an hour? I can't remember...)

I assume it was his subsequent behavior upon learning of her potential pregnancy that enlightened her to just how gross he was.

When I was in my early twenties in San Francisco, I knew two women who had suspicious/unlikely pregnancies who subsequently had very easy and seemingly emotionally uncomplicated miscarriages. Both were from New Jersey. All the guys we knew from NJ said this was a typical Jersey Girl MO to keep a boyfriend, fake a…

Thank you. Screw Diane Martel.

Oh, jesusfuckingchrist. That makes it worse. Here I thought the dancer was like,"Fuck you, internet! Don't you make assumptions about me. I'm no one's prop!" Which would miss the overall issue, of course, but she'd have a good point on an individual level.

Beautiful picture of Montgomery Clift. Who is Diane Martel? Was she the dancer that had got smacked? Does she resent being referred to all over the internet as a prop?

No kidding.

Thanks. I was so shocked I didn't scroll through the comments first. I'm so appalled. Bad enough to get the ice cream. Worse to photo yourselves. Even more disgusting to distribute the damn thing. BUT THEN TO HASH TAG #dadkilledit?? I don't even know how to respond to that. Makes me want to perma-coat her in brown…

I just typed a nearly identical post. Guess I should have scrolled down first. So disgusted.

Wait, who are those fucking people with the ice cream cones? Is that Zimmerman's family? With those hash tags?! WTF?!

I forgot about the Cole Porter reference in that song. What a juxtaposition.

Me too. Well, now I've had a BSO so I only get them when I request them. But if you read the quotes from the researchers, they were referring to postmenopausal women. It doesn't seem like the MSNBC article highlighted that aspect. I'm going to have to ask my onc for the original study.

Thank you. Again, I understand how it works. What I was missing from the report was that they were talking about postmenopausal women. That makes more sense. It's already common to test CA-125 every six months for at-risk women. It's known for not being especially reliable because the levels fluctuate wildly,…

I have chosen to do it, yes. Even though before I knew my BRCA status and thought I would be able to go through menopause naturally, I swore I would never do HRT. But the other medical risks are too daunting to me.

Yes, these are the takeaways from that piece: