I was a no wash/dry shampoo addict for nearly a decade, and while my hair always looked healthy and shiny my lack of routine wreaked havoc on my scalp. Washing once a week or less eventually caused gradual hair loss that I’m very, very slowly restoring more than a year after I started washing regularly again.

Evangelical “purity” culture just amplifies the bigger cultural message that refusing sex is a failure in a marriage and that solving it just requires having sex more. Anytime my partner or I have struggled with sex it is due to something completely unrelated to our desire for physical intimacy and relates to much…

Hell yeah, this article about to be a classic. I got into an argument with a troll called PEEPL or some shit yesterday on this exact topic. They also ASSUME that we don’t talk about the  homophobia or violence within our community and love to grandstand on the bullshit they spew. From posting false reports to fake…

Sucking it up and trying if you’re a swimmer or basketball play may look like a slower time, or a sub-par performance. Sucking it up and trying when you’re a gymnast can mean serious injury, paralysis, or death. She made the right call and her entire team supported her and went on to kick ass themselves.

My absolute favorite part was when Value Village James Lipton here tried to save a shred of legitimacy with, “You saw what happened here, The Left Shut Us Down!”

You’re goddamned right they did.

My favorite part is Matt Gaetz yelling, “They hate free speech!” to a group of people exercising their right to free speech while he runs away.

“I am not sure who that bearded guy was leading MTG away but from the protective hold he had her they are definitely doin’ it. And ps. That is not her husband.”

LOVE IT!
The whiny irony of it all is delicious.
MTG pretends to be a badass by chasing and harassing teenagers with incoherent talking points but then flees like a scared rat at the first sign of any real confrontation.
And GTFO with the “your whistling is breaking the law. It’s hurting people’s ears” while they are…

Man the view must be nice from the cheap seats. You do realize that, in any sport at any level, an athlete can be doing great one day and literally lose it the next, right? Pitchers who suddenly can’t throw strikes? Point guards who suddenly can’t find the basket? Except here, if she loses her focus, she faces the…

The first year or two, I could never figure out why I felt like I was being ripped in 8 directions, and probably called home sick at least half of the first days.

As I realized what the deal was, I kept an apothecary of Aleve. Then if they were particularly bad and I could skip class in college/tap out of work, I would.

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Or did she do the right thing so she didn’t torpedo the teams chances. We don’t know how she looked during the warmup, it very well could have been that she was as off during her practices earlier in the day as she was during the competition and after that vault (which was pretty bad) it was decided that she shouldn’t…

Happens all the time, especially with black women. See also Ciara, Michelle Obama, plenty of others. It’s an attempt to rob them of their femininity, which they are often using to their advantage to help them succeed in a shitty misogynist world. And helps insecure men feel better about the fact that these women are…

A slideshow of comments, huh?  I can only imagine the Hunger Games happening behind the blogs right now.   If the Herb wants to mine us for content he might actually want to invest in things that make the comments sections more active, like a platform that actually works. 

I don’t say I have a debilitating period but yes I have. There was a point where my periods were terrible. I got my first when I was 12. Then a year later they were horrific. Debilitating back pain, my cramps have always been back pain. There were so bad for so long that I actually got an ulcer taking so much…

Everyone of the athletes you listed as GOATs has lost or even cracked under the  pressure of one competition or another. To say one withdrawal, even at the Olympics (oh, and remember all her golds from last time?), cancels her GOAT status is absurd.

In baseball and golf, there’s a phenomenon known as “the yips”. It’s when a player who routinely does things at a high level suddenly and inexplicably just... can’t. Pitchers stop being able to throw strikes, or even get the ball to home plate. Position players start throwing balls 12 feet over other players’ heads.…

Simone herself said her decision to stay in gymnastics for these Olympics was motivated in part by her desire to make sure the Nassar scandal wasn’t quickly forgotten. But I agree with you that he isn’t relevant to the German team uniforms.

people are so disrespectful to megan/black women. the amount of comments i see calling megan a man is infuriating. i’m sad that the single adida missed.

They’d accept it but they’d probably also think that it was an unnecessary level of personal detail to go into.

Nothing about Issa Rae’s surprise wedding in France?! The pics are STUNNING.