I just saw the live show in Vegas a few weeks ago and it was great! Saw “Magic Men Live” (the knockoff/ripoff) a few months ago and it is definitely more where the women are expected to worship the men. In that one you had to have a $20 just to get the dancer to come near you and then it was like 5 seconds of…

This is the momentum we need. The folks at CRR are amazing, and while we are extremely lucky to have them fighting these battles, it pisses me off to no end that they even have to do it — counteracting tons (literally thousands in the last few years) of bullshit laws disguised as “concern for women” that chip away at…

I should have, but I was so bereaved at the time I almost felt like, “of course this is happening.”

I rented out a guest room in Minneapolis in the middle of the summer when a friend died suddenly and I wanted to attend the funeral but had nowhere to stay and no money. The host said it was “air conditioned” and I get there and A) There were 6 people living in a 2 BR apartment, with one BR being the one I was staying…

You hit the nail on the head. We have an extra 1 BR with full bath and laundry in our basement at the home we own. One summer we decided to Airbnb it, and made clear that this little apartment is IN the house, technically, but it has it’s own entrance and that is YOUR space and the rest of the house is OUR space. We…

I have about 80% stellar experiences with Airbnb, with one super negative one ruining it. We were traveling through Europe to celebrate our engagement and had a few nights in Dublin. The place was supposed to be 100% for the guest, host was off-site. He sent an electronic packet with everything you need to know about…

Most medical school graduates are of the age where they just started or are about to start families. Anti-abortion folks target physicians and their families as forms of intimidation. Protestors (think Fred Phelps-level) would show up at the kids’ school of the doc I worked with. They would have the mangled fetus…

I worked in a clinic with one of the Jane Collective members in the early aughts—lets call her Betty. I didn’t know that about her when I first started working there, but as I went through training I remember her smile, patience, and general calmness and warmth. She trained me to be an advocate (the precursor to what…

As a women’s health clinic worker for over 15 years who has worked at both Planned Parenthood and independent clinics, thank you for your donations. However, only 3% of PP’s work is abortions and very little (almost none) of donations go toward abortion services. So if you really want your dollars to impact abortion…

Ah, sorry, I misread the original comment. I thought you meant if the DMB kids were underage in the 90s.

You mean Gen X?

There are 4000 (FOUR THOUSAND) anti-abortion “Crisis Pregnancy Centers” (aka: CPCs, Fake Clinics) in the U.S., and these places promote this dangerous misinformation AND most are funded with state taxpayer dollars, even though they aren’t regulated. In contrast, there are only 780 abortion providers in the U.S., most…

A year ago I called the police in the (small Midwestern) city I had just moved to. We live in a diverse neighborhood with everything from a cutesy bakery to a biker bar to a kids’ park on my block. I was walking my dog past the biker bar’s parking lot, on my way to the park next to it, and saw a home made crack pipe…

Why are grown women on a feminist website that published a spectacular article about eating disorders and body image issues saying shit like “I hate her” about Beyonce’s post-baby body? We need to get a fucking grip.

Yes, my parents live in a very rural area with extremely affordable homes and the money they “save” by living out there (and not having many social events or things like restaurants to go to) they spend in garage sales, craft fairs, and stuff hoarding. There is not one inch of table or counter top that isn’t covered.…

That’s exactly what happens with people who get larger houses they can “grow into”... they fill it with shit, and Americans love buying shit, and suddenly you need a larger house for all of your shit! We moved from a house we owned into a rental apartment after changing jobs, and square footage-wise they are about the…

I started being public about my ED with friends and family a few years ago after years of them complimenting my lower weights when I’d fluctuate wildly (often 20-30 pounds in a year). I stopped commenting about my own weight, the weights of others, what I eat, what food is being served, etc., and told people I was…

I was at a similar workplace for 7 years, but the comments were usually directed at me for being on the leaner side. When I knew I was moving onto a new job and city in about 6 months, I started to reply to those comments because I wouldn’t have to deal with the long term gossip that could have resulted. “OMG…

As a sex educator for the last 15 years who is now a public health professor at a small SLAC, I am blown away that teens and college students seem to know LESS every year, even though they technically came of age during the Obama administration when comprehensive sex ed was better funded.

And Lena has been in and out of hospital care for her endometriosis, so even if she had a planned work schedule and dog sitters, unplanned health emergencies can fuck up that structure. And the pain and anxiety of her and her partner while she’s sick can increase scary behavior in the dog.