Thank you for putting this so succinctly. I struggled with this premise as well, and couldn’t quite articulate why, but “Letting the anti-choice idiots put their shame stink on it seems like giving moral ground to them” NAILED it for me. I also would like medical interventions rare because the entire system is…

I have so many mixed feelings about this. Every person deserves respect, and we need to stop placing so much judgement on appearance/weight, but I struggle with knowing that the levels of childhood obesity we see in North America do not exist everywhere, and a huge part of that is a normalized overprocessed diet, and…

Lord save us all from the huggers. Honestly, I find “good morning” to a stranger easier than running into someone I worked with or went to college with and getting sucked into catching up or meeting their baby or trying to desperately remember the last time we crossed paths and ask “oh, uh, that thing you were doing,…

I wish. :( I feel like that might be too weird, though. Maybe I just need to woman up and go with the weirdness and give fewer fucks. That’s another thing, I’ve also started wearing headscarves more because I love them and no one recognizes me anyway, and I don’t know if I can continue once people will actually see me…

I love wearing masks. I don’t live in a huge place, and I love grocery shopping or existing in public without having to stop or wave or be social with people or feel pressured to exchange empty words with former classmates or random passers by of my random social strata. I used to dread running errands, now its kind…

Oh Lord, yes. Copperbottom, Coppertop, CooperTrooper, Snaggleface, LongDog, BusinessHund, Copster Fire, Cops, Beetle Brows (he’s very expressive) and Stink, among... probably an unnecessary amount of others. It’s a wonder he knows his own name, honestly.

I know, right?!

His collar is a bow tie. :)

If I do, it’ll be this one.

So, my region is still very much under lockdown and stay-home orders. Out of some unexpected mixture of boredom and sudden energy, today I became one of those people who made a FB page for their dog.

WARNING: Spoilers and Basically-a-Small-Novella ahead.

I’m surprised she didn’t also include the insulting-on-so-many-fronts and also VERY debunked assumption that women who aren’t western-beauty-attractive don’t get assaulted and taken advantage of. That “criticism” was more than a remark on personal opinion of an actors appearance. It was a barely veiled iteration of…

Why do stories like this get air?

“traditional, mythic, and even pre-historic notions of masculinity, as well as gender essentialism, heteronormativity, and cultural appropriation”

Uh, y’all? Are... Are the Squad ok?

I’m pretty surprised by this take. I thought it the season was downright charitable to Camilla and did a lot of hindsight clarification about the rock and hard place she would have seen herself in (not to get into the wider question of how difficult an aristocrats life would possibly be if your worst issues are “of…

I hate that JK is doing this, but to fair to contact the main character does NOT threaten Pippa with prison rape. After being attacked by Pippa (who is not inherently unstable, but has been rocked by a trauma) the detective and sidekick are trying to get Pippa to cooperate. Pippa is offered tea, is always referred to…

The Silence of the Lambs thing was a movie fuckup. The book made it abundantly clear that Buffalo Bill was NOT trans, and makes a specific reference to trans people and people with mental health issues (as a comorbidity thing, not a trans-is-a-pathology thing) are more likely to be the victims of violence rather than…

I’m Canadian. I’ve been figuring for the past couple of years that I’d eventually be droning Misoprostol over Pigeon River for y’all. Guess Women on Waves needs a local chapter. :(

Right?! This always occurs to me with gun use, domestic violence stats, incel culture, Me Too... Is it some kind of projection? Can they look at all the shit that goes down and honestly think “yeah, women are probably just exaggerating, you know how they get, periods ‘n shit right bruh?” Like, I know women can be…