Now that I will be entertained by. Let the hair and blood fly!

I used to work at a zoo that did endangered animal captive breeding. One of my co-workers was part of a team that would “collect” semen from rhinoceroses. It was as dignified as it can get when you are using a prosthetic rhinoceros vagina. 🦏

After reading through the thread of responses — please don’t destroy me here — but it seems like women are more often then not the targets and believers in this kind of alternative medicine mumbo-jumbo. There were a few people who gave some reasons for this (an established medical system which doesn’t properly address…

Right??? That’s the worst part - that every time they don’t suffer terrible consequences, they take that as a confirmation of their beliefs instead of pure luck. The people commenting on this friend’s post are going on about how they “cured” strep using “organic honey, garlic, and apple cider vinegar” (always the damn…

She and others like her are definitely full of shit, but I kind of understand how women would fall for it. They feel they are doing something for themselves when the medical establishment ignores them. As a personal example, I went to the gyno yesterday because perimenopause is getting to be unbearable. The first drug…

Having grown up with a stepmom who bought into this stuff (anti-vax, crystal healing, herbs, homeopathy, muscle testing, cleanses, detoxes, enemas, generational pain manifesting in a person, etc., etc.), I think part of the reason these people buy into this is that they want answers to things that aren’t answerable,…

There’s a medical history podcast I listen to that occasionally delves into this sort of voodoo medical magic shit. Crystals, extra super doses of vitamin C, all this crap.

He’ll never be the head of a major corporation.

Not funny “ha-ha”, obviously.

+1

“What advantages does this war have over, say, an ethnic cleansing, which I could also afford?”

You’re overthinking it. Using plants as headwear is a cultural tradition that spans centuries across basically every human society since we crawled out from under our rocks. Did the ancient Greeks and Romans with their wreaths of laurels appropriate the Hawaiian people? Doubtful. Did the medieval pagan trend for…

I love these kinds of gestures and the accompanying fashions. If fashion is a form of communication, the women wearing these garlands are signaling a return to myth, to the magical, a throwing off of the harsh pressures of unrelenting capitalism and careerism– if only for a day. Sure, some people may wear it…

Huh. I make my living making just the things you despair. Floaty dresses embellished with vintage bits, tassel earrings, pagany stuff. Thank GOODNESS not everyone feels like you.. (including Stevie Nicks,who bought a necklace I made years ago...SO THERE.)

I followed this diet religiously for 9 months. I’ve idiopathic hypercholesterolemia. I found it to be a complete fad and after researching it more there’s little evidence to back it up. My weight did not change, not that I wanted it to and my cholesterol was worse than before. Now maybe in my case nothing will ever…

Although, to be fair, exercise and diet are not a cure-all for some of us. I exercise twice a day, eat no sugar, low carbs, and so on.... And I am still overweight. I’m amazed at that which some of my naturally skinny friends can eat and be fine. I would be morbidly obese. Keeping my weight even static is a full-time…

What up, ED sufferers/recoverers! Eat regular meals based on the plan set by your nutritionist/therapist/support team. Remember that is this is the internet, not your doctor’s office.

First, let’s be real that this isn’t “starving.” Consider people truly starving around the world, watching family members waste away, actual suffering before applying the word to coping with one or two days of fewer calories in a week, and see how offensive and whiny this sounds.

That United Airlines’s policy forcibly sexualizes children’s bodies is especially reprehensible

It has been reported that the passenger was flying on a pass, and was therefore required to adhere to a more formal dress code.