I would think a brain-dead woman wouldn't be able to incubate a baby without severe repercussions on the baby's health, because the death of the brain means the hormonal system responsible for regulation of the pregnancy no longer works. Sure you can force the lungs to breathe and fill the blood with chemicals to help…

As a seamstress, my greatest fear is a Muslin Terrorist.

Okie dokie. Whatever gets you through the day. I feel pretty damn powerful as a woman without unnecessary capitalization, but I'm also aware that not everyone flinches when reading Seemingly random Capitalized Words. YMMV. I will say one final thing. If you are telling people to research and "check the statistics" in…

Oooooo and Ecologist with a capital "E". How could I have been so stupid? Oh, I forgot, I live in the USA and "tend not to be the brightest." Yeah, insults totally help your case. Also, stop capitalizing White Women like that. It's White women, just like Black women. White Women make me think you are being facetious.

Ecology =/= politics, so I'm not sure why you brought that into the conversation.

I'm given the impression that a lot of guys don't really know anything about it, even when they live with women. My husband, on the other hand, knows everything, cause I tell him. Neither one of us is shy about stuff. We are aware the human body is both gross and fascinating.

I totally forgot about that. I did that so I wouldn't have my period at my wedding. It's one of the things I loved about being on bc, that you had control over stuff like that.

A lot of it is muscle contraction as well, so gravity isn't everything. So that makes me wonder, would you cramp more in space to compensate?

A hundred? That's 1.68 tampons PER HOUR of her mission. That would need a Shining-level period, I'd think.

I'm totally into that sort of thing,. I will check that book out! I need something new to read now that I've finished Tales From the Crematory. I've really learned to appreciate biographical books as an adult.

I couldn't remember any of the ones I'd heard about. I wish I was on bc right now, cause my periods were so light and regulated when I was taking it. But we are trying to have a kid, so I'm stuck riding it out. I had only tried the regular two-hormone pill kind, not any of the others. I was interested in the patch…

Man, I didn't even think of googling. I just let the curiosity burn in me while I morosely clicked on open tabs. All the meds I'm on are making me kinda slow today. Thanks for the link, it was fascinating reading!

I've been trying to star your reply for the last fifteen minutes, but your joke was so bloody funny it broke my internet.

I'm less interested in how she does her hair in space than I am in how a woman deals with a period in space. I wonder if any of the women in pace have used the bc that gets rid of periods for 3 months at a time? And it hasn't always been available, so both astronauts and cosmonauts have had to deal with periods in…

Bojangles spices things up a little too heavily for my tastes, but they do make an agreeable second-choice if I'm feeling like a little burning-mouth in the morning. But I didn't know they even did a pork chop biscuit at all, even if only seasonally.

Came for this, leaving happy.

I'm going to have to go ahead and say that I had the BEST breakfast fast food item today. Down here in North Carolina there is this tiny chain of restaurants known as Biscuitville. They do one thing, and they do it EXTREMELY WELL. Fuck Chick Fil A, I had two Porkchop Biscuits this morning, and they were heavenly. I…

*nod* Someone upthread linked me to the same poem. I think it's awesome that it's a whole thing. I never knew, and now it's even cooler. It's like a childhood memory just expanded. It's neat.

Niiiiiicceeeee. I can't believe I've never heard that one!

Oh my god, there's more? I NEVER KNEW. Now I have to learn it and recite it to my father in a bad Swedish accent.