Noooo! D: That poor bath!!

A SPOUT FOR BUBBLE BATH [fans self]

My “favourite” part is the bit where the nurses coo over how amazing and selfless and heroic he is for ... doing his job. The bit where when a very pregnant woman who cannot afford medical bills shows up about to have a baby, he delivers the baby instead of kicking her out to contribute to maternal mortality.…

The vast majority of abortions occur early in the pregnancy. Up to 12 weeks, a medical abortion (with pills) can usually be done. A surgical abortion usually means using suction to gently empty the uterus. Anything that could be described as “dismember a healthy foetus” occurs only after the 15th week of pregnancy,…

Just watch out with that one cause in Britain (and Ireland) “wog” is an old-fashioned but potentially still very offensive slur for black and south asian people! See: gollywogs

Free bleeding is actually totally fine pre-apocalypse but only on light days, for sure. I slid here unintentionally, via “maybe I’ll try a menstrual cup” to “I fucking love my menstrual cup! I can finally stop buying plastic-cotton-bleach disposable pads!” to “this cup is kind of overkill on light days now I actually…

I don’t think I can meaningfully bump you cause I’m grey, but I’m trying!

It may be that people of colour are treated more strictly than white people when it comes to CPS, but if so, that’s a case where POC are being treated with the correct amount of strictness and white people are (wrongfully) being let off on things that they SHOULD be pulled up for. Like speeding, where you’re more…

I don’t really know what the witness could have done, aside from testify, which she did. With their horrific messages to each other and their changing stories, her testimony (placing them at the scene and in the act) should have been enough. But in the moment? She wasn’t sure if it was consensual. So either, it is…

Yeah I find this kind of crazy. I LOVE celebrating, so I’m like, hells yes, you got engaged?? amazing!! let’s talk wedding bands and plan a ring-admiration girls-night, or whatever. But why can’t we be like that about other stuff? Okay we’re a little like that about babies, and we’re okay on “big” birthdays, but hell,…

There should be laws/regulations about how guns should be stored. Then you’d only be in trouble if you failed to follow those regulations. It could be as simple as “gun must be stored in a locked safe when not on licence-holder’s person”. Kid takes it from your bedside locker = you’re in trouble, because it wasn’t in…

The minister of my (Unitarian, very lefty, feminist, justice-driven) church gave a great Children’s Story (section of service where minister tells a story, ostensibly to the kids but everyone benefits) last year about always thinking before you agree and how adults are not always right, etc, and I was like, yessss!!…

You can do it as examples! “For example, candidates being pro-choice is an important issue for me, so when I see the list of who’s running, I... [check their websites / use candidate comparison tools / write emails to the campaign / check local pro-choice endorsements / whatever it is that you do / whatever it is that…

Hi I’m here to audition for That Weird Crunchy Feminist Woman Who Talks About Breaking Free From The Patriarchal Neoliberal Capitalist Prison Of Over-Managing Our Periods, and I’ll be performing the songs Free-Bleeding Is Actually No Big Deal On Low Flow Days, and Have You Tried Reusable Menstrual Cups And Cloth Pads…

Iceland gives each parent three months, and then a shared three months (mam can take all of it, or da can take all of it, or they can split it), and they can take their leave at the same time or one after the other. They can opt not to take their own three months, but if they do, they lose it. So fathers can choose to…

Pets are great and all, but woke teens on social media are maybe the only good thing about America right now...

Oh, I don’t do that, specifically, but I really get you! I cry a lot, very easily, and I get emotional when nice things end. And sometimes even when just neutral things end! I think it’s easier for me to not cry when I finish a book because I read fast and I enjoy rereading, so it never feels like a “goodbye”, more…

Brilliant, thank you!

Can you write her a letter, or an email (even better if you can do it in such a way that she can’t delete it, like a link to download it from that you’ll maintain, so even if she gets rid of it, it’s there if she wants it later) where you explain how much you care for her and how much she means to you and how worried…

I just* read Uprooted by Naomi Novik, and I loved it. I adore good fantasy, but good, well-written, not-sexist fantasy is hard to find, and this is a great stand-alone example.

*just = I finished it yesterday, but I’ve since read The Bonesetter’s Daughter by Amy Tan, which I started last night and finished after lunch…