Thanks! :)

Yeah, that would be hard to go from dancing en pointe to feeling like you aren’t able to do what you used to. I used to be a competitive gymnast and it wasn’t easy realizing my body just isn’t capable of the same things anymore. I hope you’re able to find a form of dance and/or other movement that you enjoy!

What kind of dance did you do? I do a form of modern belly dance and my experience with it has been that it’s been far less punishing (mentally and physically) than either gymnastics or ballet, despite still being technically demanding. That is to say, we work really hard but there’s a more supportive culture of being…

I get this. I dance and it’s a huge part of my life. It takes a lot of hours and energy, which I gladly commit to because it enriches my life so much. But I worry sometimes that when I have children in the next few years, I won’t be able to dance as much. I had a conversation with my teacher a couple weeks ago about…

You now what “challenging myself every minute of every day” did to me? Gave me a debilitating anxiety disorder.

Yeahhhh, boundaries are perfectly ok. Chill the eff out, dude.

Fucking amen to that.

I miss real teeth and real noses SO MUCH.

But dontcha know, she’s responsible for reading his mind and knowing exactly what his intentions are (and preventing him from assaulting her), but he can’t be expected to figure out that “You’re hurting me” means he should stop, make sure she’s ok and NOT proceed if she’s not.

the situation is always more complex than the “yes means yes” and “no means no” slogans make people think.

And you have to listen to The Night Josh Tillman Came to Our Apartment against the rest of the album, especially The Ideal Husband. He’s mocking himself as much as the unnamed woman in TNJTCTOA. That lyric isn’t misogynist so much as a recognition that we’re all assholes, even him. Especially him.

I can sort of get it. I can see feeling left out of something that might seem like a pretty amazing experience to have. I want to have children one day and I would like the opportunity to experience what being pregnant and giving birth are like. I would never go to the lengths this woman went to to experience it, but…

Thankfully, no.

Or Kenneth Ellen Parcell.

I honest to god know someone who named her son [First name] Danger [Last name]. His middle name is literally Danger.

Right?! People who complain so vociferously about children seem to forget we were all little snot-monsters at some point. We can’t have well-behaved, responsible, contributing adult members of society without adults who are willing and able to take care of us when we’re babies and children, too. Supporting parents is…

Literally everything is made of chemicals!

Herbal medicine is not homeopathy. Homeopathy is a dogmatic pseudoscience based on the notion that “like cures like.” Homeopathic medicines are literally just vastly diluted preparations of tinctures that are so dilute as to sometimes not even contain any molecules of the original substance. Any effect seen from…

My roommate drives me bananas because she prefers to take herbs she gathers herself or buys bulk in health food stores rather than medicine because she thinks “pills are so toxic.” But herbal medicine can be poisonous/toxic, too - especially if you fuck up the dosage. It seems so illogical and dangerous to me that she…

I wonder about this, too. My two year-old niece has a lot of actual, life-threatening allergies (eggs, nuts, strawberries and a few others) that have been diagnosed by an allergist and for which she needs an epi-pen. But she’s also been having issues with eczema and asthma and so my sister took her to a naturopath to…