I’ve lived with one roommate and I’ve lived with 4 roommates, it’s easier with more people. You don’t have just one person to focus your annoyance on, and you’re kind of forced into more of a ‘let petty shit go’ attitude. 

I dated a guy who used socks instead of mittens/gloves. In Winnipeg! He’d say why bother, these work fine, and he never complained. I appreciate the reduce consumption and save money attitude, but this drove me up the wall. 

She’s implying she wasn’t close with him, but her phone number was in his little black book. Seems unlikely that she just stood next to him at a few events while a photo was taken. It also doesn’t look great when you start out saying I’m no saint but I won’t be held hostage by my past. Comes off like you’re hiding…

Thank you! I’m grey and didn’t want to post a link/photo, but it’s the 1st thing I thought when I saw the photo.

I would take her as a seat neighbour over anyone I’ve ever had to sit next to. I’d pay extra to take a flight if there was a guarantee to be more animals and less humans.

I would absolutely pay for this level of personalization.

Canadian here. I’m currently in the middle of a two month wait for an MRI. I’d rather not wait that long, and improvements are needed, but I would NEVER trade it for the US system. I wouldn’t be able to afford it and I’d get no health care at all otherwise. I’ve had 2 specialist appointments and will have 2 more…

I think the alterations make her look a bit like AOC, and I wonder if that was in any way deliberate.

I think the way adult women are called girls in an infantilzing and sexualized way is another slimy side of this misogynistic coin. Also related to the idea that women should dislike getting older and hide their age once their 35 and up. It’s all so gross and dehumanizing, but sexualizing children is by far the worst. 

My notoriously creepy uncle once would not stop questioning me about whether I’ve been a “good girl” at a family funeral. I was 35. Doing that shit at your father’s funeral is next level inconsiderate though. 

Prairie dweller here, and aside from my friends I feel like I’m completely surrounded by strict conservatives. A significant number of people here would gleefully see all abortion banned, gay marriage overturned, and are full-on in their support of Andrew Scheer.

Same. I used to watch lots of horror and gore, now I have to close my eyes during medical shows. But any animal distress or pain is the worst and I can not handle it. My theory is that humans have a capacity for cruelty that I just don’t see in animals. We are destroying the planet, and each other at an alarming pace.…

And in comparison with Andrew Scheer, who looks to have a good chance of becoming PM. I’m genuinely afraid. I mean, I don’t think anyone should be immune from criticism, but JT is by far the lesser evil in that case.

I think probably the fact that younger actresses are often hired to play middle aged women and are often cast as love interests for men 20+ years older than them is part of it too. 

Update: I’ve been watching it on (Canadian) Netflix so have only seen 3 seasons. Apparently there is another rape in season 4 and it’s not uncommon in the books which I have not read. Blargh. I still appreciate it not being used to be ‘sexy’, and how the sex scenes they do have are radical in that they actually…

That one episode is awful. I could not watch it and quit Outlander after it for a while, but I did go back. Aside from this, there’s only one other rape that I noticed in the whole series, and maybe once or twice where the possibility of a rape could have happened but didn’t. I’m normally very sensitive to that sort…

Pesto! It’s glorious.

I tried it for the first time about 6 months ago because I got tired of waking up with intense headaches from scowling so hard in my sleep. A side affect was that it did ameliorate my depression. It’s really interesting how not having a perma-scowl can lift your general mood. Also, not gonna lie, I’m sure not seeing…

Board shorts and a rash guard, because I burn really easily, and some board shorts have pockets.

Yes. So much. Women should not be tasked with convincing incels with of their own humanity and value. Sometimes derision serves to take some of the power back for an oppressed group, so I don’t think examining how incels are discussed on feminist sites needs to be re-visited. I think what needs to be revisited is how…