Me too. Women (and especially WOC) often have the pain they are experiencing dismissed by medical professionals, as if all of us just pretend to be in pain for, idk, the fun of going to the emergency room. In reality, I know several women who had their appendix burst who just assumed they were having severe menstrual…

I was sent home with an inhaler after I reported not being able to walk 10 feet without having to stop and catch my breath. I couldn’t walk up the stairs at work without having to sit down. Two days later my doc called me back with the D-Dimer results and told me to go to the emergency room, where they did a CT and…

I have chest wall inflammation but was told just to take ibuprofen with the expectation that it clears up. I’m not sure why antibiotics would have been prescribed. I’m not in the medical field, but know that most doctors reserve antibiotics for cases where infection is pretty certain. Costochondritis is not an…

I am in tears. This tragedy could have been avoided. Several years ago, I experienced similar symptoms and went to the ER. They drew blood, did an EKG and told me it was heartburn and prescribed antacids. The weight on my chest was so heavy and painful, I drove myself back to the ER the next day. They found nothing…

And that’s why I shrug when they get on TV boohooing about the opioid epidemic and shifting the blame to doctors over prescribing drugs. The good doctors weren’t passing out pain pills to black folks like candy because they believed we were lying about the severity of our pain OR assumed we were lying about the pain…

It’s a known fact that the medical profession tends to underestimate the pain felt by their black patients, female or male. The reality is that the profession doesn’t view black folks in the same way they view non-black folks. It’s no surprise to me considering that Silas Weir Mitchell, the man who inspired many…

How come women can’t go sleeveless when Paul Ryan is allowed to go spineless?

No he’s not inherently ugly or anything. I just pictures the words ‘Just one night, please just this one time’ coming out of that mouth and gagged a little.

He looks fine. He has a good job. He could date just fine. The problem isn’t that he’s a loser, its that he seems to specifically be into harassing women.

Bro-Flakes

I’m kind of thrilled. I’m not giving him any cookies, but I genuinely couldn’t believe what I was reading when I went to his post. Time will tell whether his words are authentic and truthful, and I really hope they are. But for now, at face-value, I am happy to see him seem to engage in a frank and honest discourse…

Any guy who makes a point to say he’s attracted to “strong and smart women” (after telling everyone at the party to leave so he can serve more alcohol to a woman who doesn’t want anymore or anything to do with him) doesn’t actually care if a woman is strong or smart, he just wants to have his way with them and is…

Every man wants a successful intelligent woman until they realize the reason we are successful is because we won’t put up with bullshit.

Proof? Who needs proof. Trump taught us exactly what to do:

An after thought, I heard Paul Ryan cheats on his wife

Yup. A woman’s word (and that video she leaked!!!) is never enough.

“While I’m glad additional corroboration is coming to light that supports Amber Heard’s statements, I am appalled that this is what is required to believe a woman’s word on intimate partner violence.”

I also recommend the Resistance Report with Robert Reich (He sounds very University lecturer, and my hubby cannot stand it. I work at a Uni, and I love it.) Hubby recommends the resistance with Keith Olbermann on Youtube.

UNGREY ME:

He can’t bear, even for a second, the idea that he isn’t 100% “the man in charge.” Even in a case where any logical person would try to distance themselves from this mess 45 is like “No, fuck you. I’m the one who made the call. I decided to fire him with no good reason.”