I know, it gets confusing! Kinja, bleh.

Anyway, I wasn’t trying to pile on you with my comments. It’s the PP person who was out of line, not you.

Thanks for the clarification on your story.

Withdrawal can be effective for some women. It’s just that, on average, it’s far less effective than other methods. Law of averages, and the failure of the editors to note this on what’s supposed to be a feminist site annoys me. It’s on par with interviewing someone who enthuses “abstinence-only sex education really…

After reading this I feel like maybe I was harsh with my last reply to you, so consider this my olive branch.

I agree with you that birth control choices belong to women alone and we should not be subjected to the judgments of others. FWIW, I can commiserate with you on the copper IUD, which made me bleed non-stop and…

You’re comparing apples to oranges.

Look at the chart again.

APPLES: Withdrawal is 96% effective *when used perfectly*. That’s STILL less effective than 11 (out of 16) other methods of birth control *when used perfectly*. (Apples.)

ORANGES: Withdrawal is 73% effective *when actually used* (as in, in real life by real…

Then your NP was working off-script. Here is PP’s own list of birth control methods, ranked by effectiveness:

You’re getting a lot of shit for this, but you are right. At the very least the editors should have added a little note that it works just 73% of the time, with a link to PP: https://www.optionsforsexualhealth.org/birth-control-…

Google is your friend.

It’s becoming a concern for poison centres, too.

I used to curate for museums, and I can assure you that the choice not to display weapons, drugs, contraception and the like has nothing to do with political correctness and everything to do with visitors getting handsy with the cases. It doesn’t matter if the case is unbreakable; it will still set off alarms when…

Unfortunately the view that we should be accommodating of families who choose not to vaccinate (whether in private physicians’ practices or public schools) has led us to disease outbreaks, which is one reason more physicians are declining to see vaccine-refusing patients.

But there are other perfectly legitimate…

To my knowledge, there are not. At least, not that are affordable for primary school teachers. :-P

It is coloured as part of China and labeled “Taipei” but in a different typeface used for the other nations to indicate “not a self-governed country”. (Same typeface used to label outlying islands for Japan, etc.)

I recently bought a political globe for my classroom and it turned out to be missing both Taiwan and Tibet. I returned it... only to be unable to find a suitable replacement. Talked to several teacher friends and they are having the same problem.

Seems like they are not spinning at all. They are straight-up admitting that they cast a white woman for a Tibetan role to appease their Chinese audience.

Having a separate waiting room is insufficient for many vaccine-preventable childhood diseases, such as measles which spreads through air vents and has a transmission rate in the high-90s%.

I approve of this message. —Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

This lyric and this song were the first things that popped up in my mind when I read the news.

That soundtrack was 1,000,000 times better than the film. Then as now.

Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today...

Internalisation.