My 2nd great aunt (a woman married 4 times, but no kids) would come to my parents house when I was a newborn in the early eighties to bake corn powder on a cookie sheet for my mother. Mildred was a sour, tightfisted, controlling harridan, a woman who every adult in my life shudders at the memory of even now, 30 years…

I’ve always assumed that Art Monster was applied from the outside; certainly I was very comfortable with the choices I had made in pursuit of my work that others (most notably male sex partners) objected to.

I think for some of us in the QUILTBAG our sexualities reveal themselves to us as we age, as well. I was 22 before I felt comfortable identifying as Bi and that was in the early aughts. 3 of my partners have transitioned since the relationships ended. So does that change MY sexuality as well? Maybe! I’m still…

‘It’s America’s glory hole.’

It kinda floored me that PW-B referred to Fleabag as a show about a sex addict because to me it was more about grief. Like, the character has been searching for love and connection since her childhood. All of her actions are just extensions of that quest.

I never really had a big tell-off, but I’m an overly-analytical virgo, so take that as you wish. I mostly just talk shit on my lame exes here on Jez, decades later, and I feel fine with that. Hurray for your new freedom!

That, and also run of the mill stuff that children die from when they don’t have adequate medical care. Think a family of 13 will be able to afford insulin? Inhalers? Epi pens?

I thought my head would pop off when I read that. Please, please for fuck’s sake can we not have this guy as our nom? I fucking hate this.

Dammit. I can’t get the video to play. PRACHI! I NEED TO KNOW THIS BAD BITCH!

Ah, but you're still expecting a core of ethical behavior from them. That's not really feasible anymore. The bump in birthrate will be evened out by the spike in child deaths due to treatable diseases, so. They're not worried about building that extra school at all.

The more I hear about the minutia of her life as a congresswoman, the more I fucking want to hug her and give her wine.

I, a definite woman, mean ‘Becky, another woman who HAD a cup full of menstrual blood, but now does not.”

Yeah, that business about how bi/pan folks are privileged always ticks me off. Like, no, my gayness is not minimized by my hetero partners, in fact, that’s when I feel the MOST gay, the MOST in danger and the MOST ostracized by people around me. My queer friends (with the noted exception of my trans friends) cannot…

I *really* want to laugh at this bullshit, but I'm immunocompromised so fuck Becky with the full cup.

I have neighbors who look forward to my fall cleaning frenzy. They camp out in the yard with hot dogs and cocoa and whiskey and laugh as I drag every single mother fucking thing out onto the lawn. Shouting. Cat litter? Check. McDonald’s shitty and stress-inducing happy meal toys? Check. The sofa? Double check. How tf…

Same. We can ride the perimenopause bus together, but please, don’t sit too close. I’m sticky and bitchy.

That image gave me my first real laugh of the weekend. Thank you, Internet Stranger.

This is hugely likely. The infertility window I had while I was breastfeeding was nonexistent, but I totally had periods of low production.

I would love evidence of baby cages, or “playpens” as evidence as well. If mama can churn out more than one baby every couple years, she’s gonna need a corral.

Well now I’m crying.