“Conservative feminism" is just the hot new rebranding of "patriarchy apologist."

Thanks for sharing. I may be in the minority here, but I’m rolling my eyes at how much she’s centering herself and implicitly asking for you to absolve her of her clueless white-person guilt.
Yes, we’ve probably all gone MIA during the past 6 months in some shape or form, but it doesn’t even sound like she can muster…

Hi fellow SNS posters! I’ve had a really tough week, and if y’all are up for it I could really use some encouragement (sorry in advance for the lengthy post).

It’s a good point that vulnerable populations are now even more vulnerable, without quick fixes.  But it’s also not a bad idea to alert women with insurance that their access might change in the future, or motivate anyone on the fence to pull the trigger instead of putting off a major health decision.  

There is a contingent of heterosexual millenial men who have gotten used to their female partners taking on all the responsibility of contraception and require reminders that condoms exits. 

THANK. YOU. The Broadway dancer who lost his leg, than his life? Was in terrific shape. Many young and healthy people are stroking out due to this virus. Good diet and exercise are important but they aren’t marks of virtue that makes the virus pass you by.

For every meal when you have the economic means to eat pretty much anything else? Literally yes.

At the start of the pandemic, I found myself buying lots of crackers and big blocks of cheese and eating them all much too quickly. Then one time I ran out of crackers well before my scheduled grocery pickup, and I thought, “Hell, I have the ingredients to make crackers, don’t I?”

Honestly, the best weight loss/well-being advice I ever got was cooking your cravings.

I don’t think that’s entirely fair. Some people who have compulsive eating habits need the same sort of accountability that addicts need.  

One thing I’ve noticed during all this is that while we are all struggling in different ways, it can be really hard to have someone else understand how your struggle might be different - not worse necessarily - just different than theirs.

Thank you for this. I ended a years-long relationship this week, and it feels weird to be struggling with normal breakup stuff (admittedly my first adult breakup that requires moving out) and trying to figure out how to build a social life during Covid, when other people have more practical issues of staying…

I really hate to say it, but I don’t expect much change societally, and especially not as it relates to class division. Behaviorally, I think you’ll see more North American people wearing masks going forward, even after a vaccine comes out (fingers crossed), because it seems like the pandemic has normalized…

Worth noting: everything you say here has always been true, pandemic or not. I come from a fairly poor upbringing, and have always been annoyed at the ‘twee’ lifestyle shift of people ‘discovering’ canning, preserving, gardening, etc. Poor people have always done that, and not to post to their blogs.

Thank you for this. I’ve become immune to these naval gazing pieces that are supposed to line us all up for a run in the Pain Olympics.

The pandemic has brought the class differences that have been growing for decades into sharp relief. The media, social and traditional, makes it more obvious by putting those differences in our faces 24/7. Those are the “Well, duh!” points. The question we’re not asking as a society is where do we go from here? The…

Lately I’ve had a few zoom calls with family (who are geographically very spread out), that have made me realize how different our experiences have been. Most of my family work from home, but I am an “essential worker” as a therapist at an inpatient rehab. I go to work every day, wear a mask, and deal with the other…

Birth control “isn’t healthcare,” she explained last year: “Imagine taking a drug designed to target a healthy part of your body and make it stop functioning.”

I disagree with their reasoning but I agree with their conclusion that we should not rely on birth control as the preferred means for contraception. The idea that hormonal intervention such as birth control is simply a way to “control” our reproduction is a gross compartmentalization of how the body actually works, as…

If someone doesn’t want to use birth control and wants to have 19 children, or 10 children, or 5 children, or however many kids they can manage to pop out between the day they get married and the day they die/hit menopause, they’re more than welcome to do that. As long as they’re, you know, competent to take care of…