did you kick that PT in the face?  because they deserved that for saying that to you.  what a jerk!  i also have had stretch marks most of my life, and no baby to show for it and ads like this make me feel like i don’t exist.

they aren’t showing pictures of women with stretch marks and imperfections that just came from living life rather than having kids, which gives the impression that the only “excuse” for having an imperfect body, and they only way it’s acceptable, is if you have a baby to show for it. 

exactly.  thank you.

same!

can i ask what the treatment they suggested was for hiatal hernia?  when i found out i had that the doctor told me there was nothing they could do about it and i just had to learn how to live with the symptoms.

i had a similar experience when i had a terrible bout of ulcerative colitis and eventually was diagnosed with it after the doctors thinking it was just an “upset stomach” even though i’d been passing blood for over a week, just because i wasn’t in as much pain as they expected someone whose colon was that inflamed to…

i have so many happy memories of watching this show with my nana when i was a little girl. it really was ahead of its time, and i laughed a lot but i feel like i learned quite a bit from it too. and also from my nana, who was a very wise (and very funny) woman. beatrice arthur actually reminds me of my nana—she was…

the annie lennox song is about the undying lands--you know, where frodo goes at the end of the last movie.  so it definitely has something to do with the movie.

devoting your life to rescuing animals is not sad, it’s noble.

are you that fragile, really?

*fart noises*

it does, especially because a greedy snob like him would HATE prison that much more than your average shlub.

as a white woman, i can pretty much guarantee you that any men treating a waitress like this are going to be white dudes.

don’t encourage shit like this.

you’re a monster.

dude, you need help.  you’re a sick person.

wow, a racist who lacks empathy.  surprise surprise.  *eye roll*

because they WOULD get charged with harassment.  unfairly and hypocritically, but that’s what would happen.

all this tells us is that you’re a liar and all the people you know are liars too.

raping someone in the ass until they bleed and are injured?  that’s fucked up.  cutting someone’s dick off so they can’t ever rape you in the ass until you bleed again?  that’s justice with some karma thrown in.