YES. Gender + sex are different. Competing in athletics at this level depends upon sex. Until athletics are divided according to different parameters, it is an unfair advantage for individuals who are biologically more male than female to compete in events for female athletes. Current Yayayeah feels uncomfortable with…

This title perfectly captures my last two relationships.

I am such a fan of the Red Fit website. Totally changed the way I think about my cycle. Instead of feeling like the butt of a cruel joke for a quarter of my life, I now feel really powerful and capable of harnessing magic during every part of my cycle. I’m not even an athlete, just period-obsessed.

Thank god, this part of the series was crystal clear - he shouldn’t have ever been convicted.

Honestly, folks who think that the armed service is just a bunch of white dudes who have no tolerance for any kind of diversity reek of privilege. Who do you think got drafted? Who do you think needed the ready-made community that the service offers? Who do you think needed tuition reimbursement? The armed service as…

“Venture out into the night. Feel the noise and stimulation of the party lift from you, leaving you clear-headed and alert. Go home and get a good night’s sleep. You’re not missing anything.”

Idk, this isn’t really surprising to me. The truck is kind of hilarious, but painting people with such broad brushes generally leads to the divisiveness of partisanship. There are too many areas of the hill billy south that support progressive, liberal causes to make such broad assumptions. I say this as a yankee who…

THANK YOU FOR WRITING ABOUT THIS!

Saying that gun control is a women’s health issue doesn’t mean guns don’t kill men. It’s worth highlighting that it’s a women’s health issue because women’s health has been historically valued less than, or not as well understood as men’s health. For example, the symptoms that men experience prior to a heart attack…

Yeah, part of me wonders if it was his mistake that he wore old jorts commando style, and it was our mistake that no one said a word to him about it. Sometimes there’s a lot going on neurologically with people as they age and experience health problems, where body awareness totally goes out the window. There’s also…

While I completely agree that arbitrarily parsing a person’s identity into genitals/non-genitals or hormones/non-hormones is completely vile, I have to say that as a cis woman athlete who’s dabbled in co-ed running and contact-y sports with trans people and cis gendered folk (in addition to playing on all “girls”…

Yes, white women enjoy significantly more privilege than women of color. But that’s some self-loathing, misogynist bullshit if we have to be okay with two white men taking ownership of and profiting off an identity they routinely rape, demote, abuse, and control.

I wonder if it’s one of those things where you’re faced with the person who wrote the words and told you their story and the response is heightened. I’ve definitely gotten teary-eyed watching things live that I could not care less about coming from my computer.

Yes, but unfortunately pain management is tricky, especially for people with a history of any kind of substance abuse, even if they’ve been clean and sober for decades. Any long term narcotics need to be closely and consistently monitored with the help of a pain management team. And prior to any new proceedure it’s…

Yes! And her magnanimous applause at Jules sharing about her eating disorder. Lady! You own a company called Skinny Girl!

I really wanted to know how much of Dorinda’s zero -to - “I’m ashame!” is in the editing.

Ehhh.... While I love the idea of decriminalizing non-violent non-exploitative acts, the system remains dangerous for many of the individuals involved. Also, if we lived in a truly sex-positive world then yes, Carter would be way off in his remarks. But we don’t.

Fuuuuuck I hate women who hate women...

So many people I love wouldn’t exist without some form of conception intervention, but this is my issue with IVF in a nutshell. This is also why I can’t stand egg-freezing and the personal-life side of Leaning In. If you find yourself at forty with an amazing career and a lovely home, you don’t need a baby. You don’t…

The idea that such an intense level of protection is in place so that this movie can continue to be made every five years is such a joke.