I guess my band would ride up if I tightened the shoulder straps, but I wear the whole thing pretty loose so that doesn’t happen. Sort of like a skimpy undershirt. It’s a very grudging bow to this ridiculous cultural mandate that we must present our breasts as perky and sexually appealing at all times. Fuck that noise.

But why is it good to suffer? The band is the main reason I cannot wait to remove my bra at the end of the day. I just don’t understand this insistence that we are all wearing our bra bands too loose. To what end must we accustom ourselves to the misery of an overly snug bra band?

How about a NuBra? They’re not bad in terms of support, better than I would have believed before trying

Right, my point is that even a low wage is still very expensive for the individual paying it. Imagine three families each sending one baby to a day care where one person watches the three babies. Each family has to pay 1/3 of the worker’s salary. That’s a lot of money for most people, and it doesn’t even take into…

Why would you think it’s not going to salaries? At a 1:3 ratio for babies, if you charge $2k/mo per baby and pay the worker a thrifty $36k/year, half of the revenue from the 3 babies she cares for goes straight to salary, leaving half for rent, supplies, administrators, etc. Imagine what happens if you pay the worker…

Samesies. Water on my face in the shower. I’m 38 and still get carded for alcohol. ( Also get people asking if I ‘go to school here’ - I’m a clinical prof at a university med center. Also if I am my kid’s sister or cousin.) I think the skincare industry is a scam.

We have a little bidet spritzer attachment on our toilet. Love that shit.

Damn I almost forgot about those horrors. Haven’t had any of them in. 7+ years. IUD FTW!!

I don’t believe we have data on long term neurocognitive effects of maternal anesthesia in pregnancy. There are already concerns that repeated administration of anesthetics to children under four may have neurocognitive sequelae. It seems reasonable to suspect this could also be true for fetal exposures.

No they are all living in the exurbs because that’s what they can afford. Col is cheaper but population density lower and commercial opportunities scarcer. Hence commuting insane distances to SF or the peninsula.

They all have 2hr plus commutes. If you ever ask your waiter or manicurist where they live, they’re all driving up from Gilroy or over from Hayward. It’s horrible.

Nope the home birth studies generally classify the birth by where it was planned to take place. Thus hospital transfers count in the home birth statistics.

Yes yes yes needs more stars

Stewart was *funny*. (And not habitually offensive BTW.)

Do your thoughts on this change depending on the race of the father? Are you annoyed at the thought of a biracial baby named Langston?

I think the abortion insanity is just a huge red herring planted by the Republican party to distract working-class people so they won’t notice they are being crushed to death economically because they are too busy worrying about all the murdered babies.

It’s happened before. The earliest bacteria produced oxygen as a waste product, poisoning the environment and causing massive die offs. A new equilibrium was reached with the rise of organisms that could use oxygen. Most organisms are in equilibrium with their environment because equilibrium states are lasting and…

There’s a demonstrated survival benefit of having a local grandmother. This would be negated if Grandma were still busy with her own late-life kids, most of whom would be toast anyway because she would die before they reached adulthood.

Well, some would say it’s both. See Gould’s theory of punctuated equilibrium.

Nope. Age-related fertility loss is rare (doesn’t occur in most mammals of either sex, nor in human males). It appears to have been selected for in species with complex familial structures like humans and orcas.