effectively!

‘together’, I think is the word they edited out.

The significance is the ‘elimination’ of the egg. No cell that’s not an egg had been fertilized before this experiment, and now it has (the parthenogenic haploid embryo (so, technically not an egg)). Progress! I guess. (The step from fertilised egg > fertilised embryo is relatively small, especially when compared to…

which is why you’re being thanked, and not shown the door ;)

‘The Cersei’? Where fruit salad > grape salad > grape juice > ok, ok, I’m drinking wine ^^

Female *what*? Female is not a noun, woman is. A female cat, female sax player, female president; those all work. ‘A sexy female’ is shitty grammar and a terrible compliment. If you take the argument further (which I personally don’t), it can be argued that saying female instead of woman strips personhood from a…

Now take into account her circumstances (oppressively repressive environment, hiding a pregnancy in the first place), and think through your argument again. Should she have been free to call 911? Yes, absolutely. *Was* she free to do so? IMO not.

given the current state/actions of society: you know :( We fight back, though.

could just be having woman emotions and responding in a hard to get way.

Amen. I read an article in the news a while ago about a guy who stabbed 2 women, 1 survived, sadly the other did not. One victim was described as a 58 yo woman, the other simply as ‘a prostitute’. That angered me so much. Like, why is her job important? And not her age? And why is it the other way around for the other…

I remember walking in on a conversation between my dad and brother about sisters being ‘useless’, since they did not birth you, and were not available to you sexually (not their wording, I think the word ‘fuckable’ was used. Ugh). I was so fucking disturbed by that. It was like, hello, dudes, I’m a fucking person in…

Of course you don’t; it was a tool your abuser used against you. After getting raped there by our babysitter, I dreaded going to sleep in my bed again. I tried to stay awake as long as I could. It’s what started my love of reading (escapism + staying awake, yay!), but it was also detrimental to my development.

honest question, how can something be not extra terrestrial, but foreign to earth? Where did it hail from, then?

That would be my dad, the first person I told when I (8 yo girl) told him about being raped by my 17 yo (male) babysitter. I wasn’t old enough to know better then, that shit fucked me up for a looooooooooong time.

My turning-malignant pleomorphic adenoma was removed orally, so I have a massive ass scar on the inside of my mouth. I don’t show anything, but there’s still checkups and fearing the results and hoping they caught it all (there was some spillage during the removal, so fingers crossed that all will remain well). The…

Tentacle-y dragons? Sign me up!

There are a thousand reasons why that was not an option. Maybe the bf was drunk, maybe she feared he wouldn’t believe her that this was unwanted. Maybe she was afraid of what he’d do to what was up to that point a friend. Maybe she froze, maybe she just wanted to get away from her attacker. Maybe she thought her…

As a woman, it really sucks to have been raped and then told to ‘get over it’, that is *if* you are believed (which I was not, initially). I’m sorry a shitty thing happened to you, but at least your bodily integrity is still your own, and I expect we share similar levels of disappointment in people we thought we could…

No, they’re saying that those diseases don’t deserve cancer’s funding.