Agreed.

The potential alcoholism aside (and that IS a major concern), it also feels like “Love of Wine” has sort of almost... come to be a stand-in for an actual personality. No need to actually be funny or engaging or interesting or whatever... just drink wine!

But wine is cool. It’s a beverage that literally changed human history and that we’ve been drinking for thousands of years. The differences in winemaking techniques, grapes, regions- it’s all really cool. Not to mention that wine has health benefits if you don’t have a drinking problem. America’s problem isn’t wine or…

I have the Mirena and just got BC pills and had a nice long chat with my doc about it all.

OMG tell her it’s time to doctor-shop. I lived with that “you never know” bullshit for years (to top it off it was bad enough I was probably infertile anyway!). And when you’re already worn down from dealing with it, it can be hard to advocate for yourself. For whatever reason, hormonal therapies weren’t enough in my…

I went through this FOR YEARS and I encourage your friend to doctor shop. I put up with VERY heavy bleeding and cramps so bad I would puke for 8 days of every month for 20 years. At 40 I finally got my hysterectomy. To say that it has changed my life is a massive understatement.

But even if birth control is being used solely as contraception, if your stance is “pro-life,” you should be pro-birth control access. Last year’s abortion rates were the lowest they had ever been since the Roe v. Wade decision in 1973.

Well think about it. It fucks with your hormones, your bone mass, your ovaries, your cortisol...and this all happened to me in the crux of puberty. I’ve suffered from very painful irregular periods, low estrogen, etc ever since. I was told it’s possible it’s permanent. It’s alright though, I really don’t want kids

Wrong choice of example. I’m a bi person who’s dealt with the shitty “fake bisexual” stereotype for years. People pearl-clutching at the possibility of fakes did me lot more harm than anyone who was actually pretending did. (Never did run into one of those.)

It’s been my experience as a nonbinary person that binary people are way the fuck too concerned with whether we’re faking, because they find nonbinary identities inherently suspect.

There used to be an unwritten etiquette code of not canabalizing charity stores and small businesses that provided a service to the local needy...so there was a culture shift when people started raiding stores for profit

No, they aren’t exploited, they exploit the labor, the middleman resellers continue to profit off of work that isn’t theirs. It doesn’t matter what I’m for or against. I’m saying it seems like this girl boss brand is presented as something to aspire to. There’s a difference between “this should be illegal” and “we…

The way I felt it back then was that it was a lot like gentrification. Still do. It seems like a very middle class phenomena (the people like “girl boss”). Like I had probably watch it if it was about someone who went from shopping there out of need with US and making it big. But we don’t. At its best I know of people…

You can’t separate one thing from another. You’re the one zeroing in on just one aspect of this, because reselling is dear to you. The idea of getting rich off of it while driving up clothes prices is different from finding some old clothes and wearing them or making some spending money by reselling a few items. But…

On the one hand, there is no ethical consumption under capitalism. On the other hand, it would be a more compelling narrative if it was a poor single mom, rather than just a rich lady. Like how they made all that stuff up in Pursuit of Happyness to make Will Smith more sympathetic than his real-life counterpart.

I think that’s a good point too. Why are thrift stores, which once were a source of affordable clothes, now the domain of the Antrhopologie wisp crowd, assigning insane value to older clothes and marking them up out of reach of most normal people?

they’re paying to look poor, and to look unbothered by convention

It might be because the girl I knew of whom did this was particularly toxic, but I hated het and this. Back in the day I/my family had to shop in thrift stores because we had little money and she would come into our local thrift stores and empty it for high quality items and then resell it for hundreds more to rich…

Archie’s off falling in love with his music teacher Miss Grundy, who is no longer sporting a grey bun but is considerably younger and hotter.