My best friend is a 5'3" tiny woman, and she runs all the time. Once she was alone and a dude on his bike smacked her ass. So she shoved him off his bike and yelled, "THAT'S WHAT YOU GET FOR NOT WEARING A HELMET, ASSHOLE!!!" and then ran off.

Kind of knew this was coming and still genuinely sad to hear the news. Unapologetic, badass, SURVIVOR. She came back from Carson. She came back from her husband's suicide and a damn near empty bank account. She came back from the haters time and time again. She owned her surgeries, the pressure she felt as a woman,…

interesting.

St. Andrew's, actually. Much smaller than Bullis, but also WAY less preppy and pretentious. Rich as hell, but doubly as wacky. Could've been worse; I could've wound up at fucking Landon. I do know we were in the same sports conference as Bullis — I feel like maybe we were with MacLean, too? I remember it was us,…

You know what's better on everything than ranch? Old Bay. Marylanders will understand. :-D ;-)

Yeah, they definitely instruct you to boil it.

that's pretty awesome

you know, in therapy I tell folks to listen to their internal cues but I don't honor that with my Precioussss, as I was strongly encouraged/coerced into ignoring its musky pleas for years. I always use glycerine-free lube during sex, but I've never tried it with a tampon, so maybe I'll give it a whirl next time I…

oh my gawd..."alley behind a fast food restaurant"...i am soooo dying here from disgust and hilarity...

"Ladies, take out your Diva cup at least once a day, and boil it monthly like the instructions say. Don't treat your vagina like the alley behind a fast food restaurant.

Don't treat your vagina like the alley behind a fast food restaurant.

Back when my first Keeper was still rubber, they said to soak in a vinegar and water solution for like an hour before putting away every month. They say it is unnecessary with the new silicone one, but I figure why not. But yeah, I wouldn't fucking boil it. Who would use that pan later? Ha. I soak in a disposable cup.

WAIT. Why are so many women immune to common staph bugs that used to cause TSS? Are you saying that TSS is no longer a thing? (bc i totally leave my tampons in for way longer than I probably should, and this info would make me feel better about that fact.)

I have a question. Can you jeopardize your someday maybe license to practice medicine by giving out medical advice on the Internets? Especially when you are, you know, not exactly right? I thought medical societies generally frowned on non-experts using the color of expertise to give out questionable medical tips.

dear med student: I really hate tampons and save them exclusively for swimming. I can always feel the pressure on my cervix and in my vagina in a very uncomfortable way, and my poor Georgia O'Keefe gets dried out and itchy. Plus, even without them my whole vulva feels swollen and nauseous. I was never able to use them…

Usually. We didn't help each other wipe though.

Can you microwave it in water to a boiling point?

I've been very very drunk, but I've never been that drunk.

Alley behind a fast food restaurant.

that's actually not exactly right. I'm with you on the first bit but not the second. Because the cups are silicone they don't disrupt natural vaginal pH in the same way as a tampon and don't serve as an ideal home for bacteria to multiply. There are no studies I'm aware of showing a definitive link between…