(Read the rest on The Powder Room.) Doctors have always had a problem with telling fat patients that all their problems are a result of their fatty-fat-fatness. But now, rather than being a problem of shitty doctors who can't overcome their personal biases even in the face of science and research that completely…
Sometimes a person realizes that their method of interacting with the world is not working. Today is one of those days.
I just wanted to give a hearty thank-you to everyone that gave me advice today. It really helped me to a) break it down instead of just spewing hurt and emotion all over the place, and b) figure out how I wanted to resolve my issue.
In Thank God For Something To Give Me Hope For Humanity News, GoFundMe campaigns have been started for the families of both students killed in Tuesday's Reynolds High School shooting - one an innocent victim, the other the perpetrator.
Not that it's pertinent now, but my employer is heavily involved in this district, and a lot of my people know a lot of their people. More updates to come. I can only verify as I get verification, so fully accurate information will be along as it comes.
Today in News I Couldn't Make Up if I Tried.
Is it wrong that I relish it when bullfighters get gored? It's the way I would feel if an elephant trampled an ivory poacher. Am I being culturally insensitive? I honestly don't know. I just know that the whole thing turns my stomach.
Personal preference is just that, but the language of personal preference is being used as a tool to marginalize fat people, particularly fat women. Read for more.
Hi all, I've been thinking about the post I wrote early this morning, and I want to say that I get it. It's not great. It may not even be good. There are a few lines I like but to be honest, it's not up to my standards. To strain a metaphor, I think there may be the seed of a good idea there, and even if I'm not wrong…
Today I write about the ridiculous notion that anyone "knows" that someone's not a rapist and the "no true Scotsman" arguments we use to excuse rape. Thanks for reading.
Sports websites have a well-earned reputation for being dens of iniquity at best and flat out rape apologia at worst. But over at Addicted to Quack (which deserves, if not cookies, a mention for not tolerating victim-blaming), Rusty Ryan absolutely killed it with an article covering the Oregon basketball rape…
I'm trying to respond but I keep having to go back and delete strings of expletives.
I so very much can't even with some people, but I am doing my best to even anyway. Here's what I'm dealing with. Now I'm going to bed. I'll update as needed in the morning.
A couple weeks ago, I crowdsourced some questions for some potential mental health experts and this week, one of those questions gets answered by clinical psychologist/advice columnist Dr. Andrea Bonior, who also does about a million other things (see more in the full article). Thanks for all the questions, and I plan…
After the last few weeks (don't even get me started on fluoride) I think it's fair to ask: is our fair state becoming the Florida of the west? Consider the evidence:
I don't think unsharing should be taken away. I just think it should tell the person whose post you unshared, "[X] unshared your post to [blog]."
Since apparently someone has decided that my post needed to be unshared from Groupthink, here it is. Also, unsharing something because you just don't like it? Not a good way to prove you're not an asshole.
I could (and probably will) watch this for hours.
Hey everybody! Does anyone here have any interest in a Q&A on credit around these parts? I know that Lifehacker had an Ask an Expert about it but credit questions are so esoteric that I think another one would be a good thing. Plus I'm working on my credit and I selfishly want to also ask a question or two. I might…
