Postdoc here. I understand that there are cases where you have to pick your battles, especially since our mentors wield so much power over us. I am just disappointed that Dr. Huang doesn’t acknowledge the possibility that we CAN fight back without turning it into a big, costly ordeal (change advisors, suggest ways on…

I get it, and I kinda agree, but I’m still so ducking angry. I’m ready for men everywhere to grow up. THIS BEHAVIOR IS NO LONGER OK. Fight this junk everywhere.

Holy.

Also Zip Boppity Bops will come pick you up at your home, if you want, and if you would prefer to stay nearby during the unconstitutional mandatory waiting period, they also have an arrangement with a nearby hotel.

After my unexpected c-section, I couldn’t walk upright for almost two weeks, bled horribly, had little help (stationed on an island with no family, and husband had to go back to work a few days later - he was a doctor at the hospital in which I delivered), and since I can’t take any normal opiate pain meds, did it all…

I want to open an abortion clinic and café called Zip Boppity Bops. We would have fresh juice!

At the end of my pregnancy, I kept having my doctor reassure me that the craziest things were “perfectly normal.” “Doc, I look like I’m walking on two enormous marshmallows instead of feet, I’m hungry all the time but can’t eat without severe heartburn, and I get winded walking more than ten feet. Also, I'm speaking…

By definition the process isn’t reversible. We’ve really got to stop letting politicians who don’t understand biology/medicine make these decisions.

This information always makes me so fucking infuriated. You know what’s medically dangerous? PREGNANCY. With an abortion, you get some anesthesia and zip bop bippity pop, it’s done. With my C-section, they gutted me open, put my uterus and intestine on my belly, and then sewed it all back into place. I couldn’t walk…

My mom is great and I love her. She came here in 1965 with a 5 mos old baby, a husband and not much else. They didn't speak English and only had gr 8 educations. But we never went hungry, we were always clothed appropriately and we always had a secure, comfortable home. My parents taught us early that working-class…

Will people *believe* that Kara is black now?

My mom survived losing her dad at 13, growing up in Iran with an independent, land owning, bossy as hell mother, sister and 2 younger brothers. She won the country’s top female scholar contest and was given a choice of Switzerland or the US. She sailed through the U of Michigan and Columbia with roommates and friends…

“My mother is smart, cunning, and has a tenuous relationship with the truth. She is devoid of warmth but exceptionally quick witted. She instilled in me a deep seated belief in the power of being ruthlessly vengeful and always paying your debts. She can also drink you under the table, LOL.”

This gets at the heart of a major problem in US policing. Officers are taught that ANY form of noncompliance is resisting and a danger to them and the public at large. The idea is that they have to maintain control of the situation at all times or else they are in danger, so the instant someone doesn't do what they…

I think Officer Newton's Big Speech comes across far worse if you are familiar with the extent to which young black men are trained to avoid upsetting police officers. People who aren't aware of that (and there's a lot of them, apparently) probably aren't going to understand just how fucked up and gut wrenching that…

No thesaurus? Maybe. Of course, it would work if you're an articulate person. Otherwise, your story could just be bad. Not just bad, but bad bad. Or, really really really really... really bad.

Unfollow if you can't outright unfriend and block (due to social pressure from fam ect.) It's what I learned to do long ago, because these people ultimately dump their shittiness in your lap and then you're the one feeling hopeless about humanity's future. It's a sap on our energy and I want to use mine to continue…

[extends hand for secret GEN X handshake] See you next week at the secret meeting nevermind.

If my choices for post-meal Thanksgiving activities (which my child-free Gen X self is hosting yet again, tyvm) come down to "shopping" and "oh for fuck's sake more football are you kidding me goddamn it," then I am all for "shopping." But I'll do it online like a CIVILIZED PERSON.

I actually do regret having them and it feels horrible to admit, especially when no one else in my world has ever admitted it to me. I will say this, though: my oldest will be 15 in a couple of weeks and man, he is actually a pleasure to be around. As in, I genuinely enjoy his company and don't in any way feel like…