You can totally have different social and legal names, go for it. Also a (shortish) first name and two (reasonable) surnames isn’t that unwieldy so I wouldn’t worry about length!

I would have really liked to have been given my mother’s surname, I’m much closer to that family and it would sound much nicer with my first name. She regrets it too, but already had enough sexist pushback about keeping her own name when she got married without wading into the kids thing too...

It was written for publication, though. She may have chosen to rewrite it, or to use it as the basis for a semi-fictional or fictional version, if she had survived and we’ll never know, but she did want to publish it. Her father was acting in accordance with her wishes when he published it.

HIMYM writers were obviously really really invested in pulling off a “so smart, they filmed that twist right at the start!” thing that they couldn’t bring themselves to jettison it. Which means they should have held fast to that pre-planning and ended the show after ~4 seasons, but they were obviously really really…

Also honestly I was a bit skeeved out about how they dealt with the active shooter plot. They’re usually more insightful than that, like “this situation is bad because our friend might get hurt! oh yay, she didn’t, problem over!” without a single mention of the gun control debate or moment to show them upset/mourning…

Honestly I’m okay with that as a life philosophy. It’s not the one I would choose, but I’m okay with it. Up to 2016 I didn’t like that celebrities would coast on through major events without using their huge platform to try to do good. But now everything’s literally the worst and on fire so, just edge around all that…

I have no idea how hard it was for her to train for this, so possibly either she was a half-an-hour-a-week-of-exercise kind of lady and kicked it up to three times a week to get into shape to do this, OR she means she added an extra three-times-a-week routine to her normal routine to train for this.

It is infuriating when they do that! Possibly a nurse practitioner or a doctor at a family planning clinic might do a better job of laying out all the various hormonal birth control options available? They might not be comfortable speaking to the endo-management side of it, but if she knows hormonal BC can help with…

Has she tried the implant? The pill doesn’t play well with me, but the implant was better, because it’s a constant low dose. I need to be on hormonal birth control because of dysmenhorrea (all the symptoms of endo, without the endo??) and the implant was a lifesaver. I stopped getting periods at all for the first few…

You also had me at Knives Stabbity.

I believe Kate wouldn’t be able to be Maid of Honour anyway, as she’s not a maiden anymore. I think she’d be Matron of Honour if they chose her, but that’s a much less lovely title.

Do you not get, though, people, especially young men, with stinky-ass socks? I can’t with that. We have a mostly-shoes-off household (not a hard rule) but I haaaaate when someone takes off their shoes, and their socks smell BAD. It ruins the whole room. (I am sensitive to smell.)

I don’t think I would be able/allowed to accept an award that involved meeting Trump because I would definitely lose my temper and say something inflammatory, probably immediately.

Okay I know the breadth and scope of human experiences, human opinions, human capacity to ignore or even invite evil for the sake of transient power, etc are all enormous. But what. The fuck. Is up with. A Samoan woman. Hitching up to this shit-train? These people aren’t your real friends, Aumua. You’re both nasty AND…

I cannot understand the exception for rape. Either it’s a baby or it isn’t. If your whole argument is based on the “right to life” and “saving the life” and “right to be born”, rape should have NOTHING to do with it. Rape exception only makes sense if it’s a “forcing women to have babies if they have consensual sex”…

THANK YOU FOR BRINGING THIS BEAR-RELATED SONG INTO MY LIFE

Are you me?? From the past??? I lost my SHIT coming up to submitting my senior thesis for undergrad a few years ago, I gained weight, I felt awful, I cried a lot, I knew I wasn’t working to the high high high standards I’d set myself because there wasn’t enough time left and I knew I’d cope really badly if I didn’t…

I don’t even understand the out-of-network thing! The doctor is obviously physically located in the hospital and insured to work there, and the hospital is in the network. So???? Like I could understand them refusing to pay for a maverick doctor who burst in through the window and gave you “complimentary” plastic…

That’s bizarre. Because the whole point of covering it for trans women is presumably because it triggers a dysphoria, which is basically a mental reaction to having aspects of your body not match the way it “should” be, or you feel it should be, or the way your gender typically presents or is supposed to present.…

yo are you on Tumblr? cause I love Tumblr but this sounds like Tumblr...