I can name multiple things she’s been in off the top of my head, whereas I’d never heard his name before reading this.

Read that yesterday, and it’s not specifically HIV. They’ve stopped tissue from aborted fetuses being used for scientific purposes, which makes a whole lot of research impossible.

Not a sex worker, but have respect for them. The skill and work involved are far less about the sex and far more about reading other people, learning to maintain and enforce boundaries, business skills like networking, self-promotion, social media savvy, ordinary organizational tasks like shceduling and accounting,…

That’s not true at all. Just because you personally don’t find pregnant woment attractive doesn’t mean that’s universal. If you want to pretend sex is all about the best chance for passing on our genes and nothing else, well, there isn’t much better proof of a potential mate’s fertility than already being pregnant.

Women would dominate in different sports- those emphasizing balance, flexibility, and agility over power. Few men would do well in women’s gymnastics. Target shooting should be about equal. Women have the advantage in everything but number of rotations in jumps for figure skating, so it would be a question of scoring,…

It’s what I want, but I also want to live in a perfect world where women are equally as encouraged to participate in sports and the sports at which women/femme folk excell are equally funded.

Let’s make tall people get limb-shortening surgery while we’re at it, to level the playing field for us short people. Short gymnasts and figure skaters will have to get limb-lengthening surgeries instead, since a low centre of gravity is an unfair advantage for them. Let’s make the men with the most testosterone take…

Fussiness over ending sentences with prepositions is something up with which I shall not put.

Hmm. I’m intruiged, but also a G cup, and that looks like it can’t have any boob support with no fabric on the back in the bra-band area. How is it in that respect?

With Elomi, it is important to know that their suits are designed as a “system” where you buy a swim bra separately from the suit or tank to wear under it. The suits themselves are not designed for support. It makes sense, and I love Elomi bras, and I’m sure the suits are worth it if you can afford it. Alas, I cannot.

Look for swimsuits labeled “modest” or “mastectomy”. Most post-mastectomy suits are designed to make it possible to wear them with prostheses, so they still have room for boobs, but the necklines tend to be high so there is no worry about drawing attention to cleavage or lack thereof. Lands End is good for high-necked…

The suits at Addition Elle (Canadian brand, will ship to US) mostly have great support. Many styles have a tight underbust band and wide, built-in mesh softcup bra and wide, adjustable straps. Infuriatingly, despite being a plus-size brand, they only go up to g/h cup and, although they have a few underwire offerings,…

Lands End. They are mostly kinda boring, but they focus on fit. They have tall, petite, plus size, plus tall, plus petite, DD+, post-mastectomy...and they are increasingly offering a few suits that combine multiple categories. Still waiting on a plus-size, tall, DD+, post-mastectomy suit for my MIL. I do find I have…

Most definitely. But is there a difference in who gets rewarded for it?

Yeah, people keep blaming the colour for the lack of resemblance when the colour was a deliberate artistic choice, but it’s the bone structure that looks completely wrong to me. That is just not the shape of her face. She does look a bit closer to a Disney princess than in real life, but much less real and unique.

And the reason “put up” for adoption is now considered insensitive or offensive phrasing is that orphans used to be literally put up on a platform and auctioned off as a source of cheap labour.

They sell them at the dollar store here! They’re the messy kind with a cup and pipette, but still.

I agree there’s something that feels a bit icky about the exploitative nature of the videos, but I think you’re wrong about the tone. People watch the videos for cathartic release rather than to be grossed out. Skin-picking is a common compulsion or form of self-soothing. The videos provide the same endorphin rush or…

Many of the celebrities who’ve recently been outed as scum always pinged my creep-o-meter, despite being widely beloved. Piven, I really liked. Guess I can’t trust my intuition, ‘cause he seems to be one of the biggest assholes of them all.

This is a very good point.