I once shared a three seat row with a tiny woman and her very heavy boyfriend. For some insane reason he sat in the middle seat and encroached on my space. I have no idea why the fuck they didn’t swap seats so the only person he’d be touching would be her. (and hardly even. She took up maybe half her space, it…

So not the point, but good god damn, Dascha is so beautiful.

“I’m pretty sure that in ‘your culture’ everyone thinks you’re an asshole too.” (probably you shouldn’t actually say that.)

Not true. Trans parents can be in gay or lesbian relationships and have babies. But I see your point.

I don’t know. I think (apart from the fact that something really horrible happened) I’d rather be alone than risk getting stuck with someone who might take offense to my face and hurt me. Of course, that’s because I hear horror stories about the violence of too many kids crammed together in poorly monitored conditions…

Nothing productive to add, but damn, I would watch the shit out of this. What a fantastic (and well-documented!) adventure. I was on the edge of my seat just reading this.

I visited a plantation home on my Epic Road Trip and at the end you had the option(!?!!) of an “extra bit” where you could see where the slaves had lived. There was still blue paint on the ceiling that the slaves had done because of religious traditions. You could see the size of the space and know how many people…

I know people who’ve woken up in the middle of surgeries before,but then there’s people like me:

That’s...weirdly personal.

- Get out on your bike when you can! Each person that is out on their bike actually makes the environment more friendly for people on bikes

I hate being called a female too. A lot of women do. But there are bigger fish to fry so most of us don’t complain IRL. Lucky for you that we’re online and no fish is too small.

I worked at a grocery store and for the “grand opening” our totally wackadoodle boss hired two women to show up. Sky high heels, tiny LBDs, glammed to the nines. Neither of them seemed to have been briefed on the occassion. I think they might have been escorts tbh.

The exact same thing happened to me. He asked me for a year. Why not, why not, why not. Because “I’m not attracted to you” wasn’t a good enough answer when “you could learn to be” was his reply.

I think spinning classes are dumb and faddish, but I also wouldn’t ride my bike in the city I live in. It’s taking your life in your hands. Plus, the weather prohibits it for much of the year. It’s easy to tell others to just ride their bikes, but that’s not actually realistic for a lot of people.

Oh man, this is weird. I love this stuff. A lot of ingredients in lip balm make my lips itch and EOS doesn’t. It moisturises me, it doesn’t get moldy (wtf?!) and basically works really well. That and cherry chapstick. Everything else itches like the dickens - yes, including Burts Bees.

Yeah, which is what’s really stupid. I mean, even if cis dudes were in there (and little boys come in with their mums until they’re old enough to be left alone in a men’s room which is older than you might think) they’d be in a stall. There is no reason to ever see someone’s junk in a women’s restroom.

I was not, that’s very interesting. And you’re right, this surgery does sound like the same thing, but invasive and yeah, on/off immediacy, not necessary. Thank you for the info!

I’m curious, (honestly, not sarcastically) what do you think a better solution would be?

I refuse to take birth control because of medical reasons. My current SO hates condoms and can’t maintain an erection with them. We have very little sex. He wants a vasectomy to fix this problem. I want children at some point in the distant future and am leery about a vasectomy because a) reversals don’t always work…

I’m just picturing a fat-cat exec smoking a cigar asking if they can get Emma Stone or maybe Megan Fox to play Saartjie. Then firing the fool who points out that casting a white woman would be a bad move.