Here’s hoping the small post office branch up the street really is open until 8 p.m., as indicated doing a search. I really need to get up there to collect a package, and it’s already after 6.
But, I’m also dizzy enough from the weather that it would be dumb to even try to walk it without at least getting some electrolyte drink in and resting a little while to see if that helps. Extra frustrating with it only being a few blocks, but still.
I mean, worst case I could wait until tomorrow, but it’s something I should really have today. The forecast is also pretty much the same again.
Executive Function Master here put off ordering more BCPs to stave off Cramp Hell until the last minute, and took the last one yesterday đŹ Definitely not going to complain about the shipping time from that pharmacy, but yeah. One missed/late dose is enough to cause problems, from experience. So I would really prefer not needing to do that.
The option of getting something urgent delivered for pickup at the post office is usually handy. Sure, it requires a stroll up there, but at least you don’t have to worry about getting a redelivery slip instead of the package.
Not a great situation in general, but doing my best here. I’m also pissed off again about even needing to self-treat this problem, out of pocket with the extra hassle involved. But, it’s better than the main alternative of spending at least a week pretty much incapacitated (and with looping suicidal thoughts) every month.
Getting worked up about the bigger situation there really isn’t going to help right now, but jfc you would think somebody would see that’s an unacceptable state of affairs for literally anyone. Even if they don’t dare mention the suicidal thoughts from pain.
A challenge to disability professionals and disabled presenters at conferences and panels: Please find a way to respond to the routine contempt that presenters with disabilities are treated with.
Iâve gone to a fair number of disability-related conferences in the past few years. At nearly every conference, I saw an audience laugh at a presenter/panelist with a developmental disability. This happened particularly often to presenters with intellectual disabilities, but I also saw it happen to autistic presenters and presenters with speech disabilities.Â
This isnât a matter of random jerk encounters; itâs a major cultural problem. Even disability professionals who pride themselves on inclusivity and respect tend to behave this way.
This isnât nice laughter. Itâs not a response to something funny. Itâs a response to presenters talking about what theyâre proud of, what theyâre good at, or talking about wanting control over their own lives. People also laugh similarly when parents and siblings talking about their disabled relative wanting autonomy or objecting to being treated like a little child. This happens all the time, and it needs to stop.
If youâre moderating a panel and the audience laughs at a panelist, hereâs one method for shutting this down:
Be proactive about taking the panelist seriously:
Donât look at the audience while theyâre laughing, and *especially* donât laugh or smile yourself.
Wait for the audience to stop laughing.
Pause briefly before going on. This will make the laughter feel awkward.
Ask the panelist a question that makes it clear that you respect what theyâre saying.
You can explicitly ask âDid you mean that seriously?â
You can also be a bit less direct, and say something like âThat sounds important. Can you say more?â
You can also ask a follow-up question about the specific thing they were saying.Â
I think that we all need to be proactive about changing this culture. (Including disabled presenters who get laughed at; we need to insist on being taken seriously. More on that in another post).
There are more ways to shut down disrespectful laughter and insist on respectful interactions than I know about. What are yours?
âAs Jews, it is very distressing to hear about this,â he said. âWe recently commemorated the anniversary of the return of the St. Louis to [Europe], where Jews seeking refuge in this country were turned away and sent back to their deaths. The U.S. risks repeating this same dark mistake. The Jewish community knows the tragic consequences of shutting down pathways to safety for people in harmâs way. We must not let this happen again. âNever Againâ is as applicable today as it has ever been.âÂ
Arts and crafts retail giant Hobby Lobby has gotten itself into the middle of another massive controversy â and this time, it appears unlikely they can rely on a friendly Supreme Court to bail them out.
According to a statement on the Department of Justiceâs website, acting U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York Bridget Rohde and Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials have reached a settlement with Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. for illegally purchasing over 5,500 Iraqi artifacts for $1.6 million.Â
The artifacts were likely looted from archaeological sites or museums in Iraq during the chaos of the countryâs 14 years of U.S. occupation and civil war, and shipped to the U.S. with falsified labels designating them as tile âsamples.â
A massive black market in stolen archaeological and historical items has spawned in the wake of the United Statesâ 2003 overthrow of Iraqi dictator Saddam Husseinâs government.Â
Baghdadâs National Museum of Iraq was looted as U.S. troops failed to secure key locations throughout the city.Â
More recently, the Islamic State have likely sold a fortune in looted antiquities amid its years-long rampage throughout Iraq and Syria, raising troubling questions about who looted the cuneiforms in the first place. Read more (7/6/17)
So thereâs a possibility that someone from Hobby Lobby directly funded the Islamic State by purchasing these stolen artifacts.Â
If you were fine with Hobby Lobby controlling what goes in and comes out of the vaginas of their employees and continued to shop there, at least stop shopping there now, or else you might be funding terrorism.
And if it seemed a bit weird that a company like that would even be in the market for Iraqi artifacts, the official explanation isnât that reassuring either:
According to the New York Times, Hobby Lobbyâs president, Steve Green, said the collection of artifacts from the biblical-era Fertile Crescent was âconsistent with the companyâs mission and passion for the Bible,â but added the company was ânew to the world of acquiring these items, and did not fully appreciate the complexities of the acquisitions process.â
Wait what how does hobby lobby control what goes in/out of their employees vaginas!? What is going on with this store!? Some body please link me or something.
Theyâre more comfortable, still form fitting, and best of all: THE POCKETS. THEY HAVE ACTUAL POCKETS.
donât believe me? look:
these are boys pants, and they look just as good on me as any other skinny jeans I own
See that phone? Iâm going to put it in the pocket. Must be so small right??
Ah yes, girl pants length. Probably canât fit any further than that-
what? whatâs this?
Good god. Oh good lord in heaven. This is blasphemous.
Look at how much room is still there. Thereâs chaos in the streets. Babies are crying. Fashion designers are screaming out of fear of the unknown.
Buy your pants in the boys section, girls. Live in the beautiful world you deserve where you can fit shit in your pocket.
Curvy ladies: Menâs dress pants have more room in the butt. I donât know why, I only know that all my dress pants for work are off the rack in the menâs department in Target. Literally nobody has noticed, except a couple of my younger coworkers whoâve asked meâyou guessed itââoh my god, where did you find pants with pockets?â
Tall ladies: menâs pants are easier to find in longer lengths than womenâs pants are.
Trans ladies: Wanna get on this gravy train, but afraid people will misgender you for wearing clothes off the menâs racks? Step one: tell me who these people are and I will punch them in the face. Step two: if it doesnât make you dysphoric, please donât feel obligated to wear pants off the womenâs racks if pants off the menâs racks are more comfy/useful to you. Iâm a cis woman whoâs been wearing pants from the boysâ section and, later, the menâs section, ever since I hit puberty and in thirteen years maybe, maybe half a dozen people have noticed. And itâs always women asking the oh-my-god-pockets question. Youâre all good. â¤
Fat ladies: you will pay the same for a pair of 42×32 jeans as for a pair of 34×32 jeans, instead of having to pay some kind of Fat Penance Tax by way of being in the âplus sizeâ section. Also, did I mention more room in the butt?
Ladies concerned about modesty: For obvious reasons, there is more crotch space in menâs pants. Embrace it and enjoy a life free from cameltoe worries and spontaneous labia-wedgies when you squat down.
All ladies: I swear to god the waists in womenâs pants these days are made specifically to fit exactly nobody so that no matter what you do, your underwear will show. Menâs pants do not do this. The waists sit where theyâre supposed to and will actually lay flat against the small of your back instead of flopping open to show your unmentionables to the world. If you want hiphugger jeans, buy one leg-length too small and one waist-size too large and let them hang, and they still wonât accidentally show your undies. Menâs pants will last longer. They cost less, in a lot of cases. Embrace the menâs jeans. Buy the menâs jeans. Stop buying shitty flimsy womenâs jeans that wear out in six months.
AND FINALLY: to determine your size in menâs pants, take a tape measure around your waist at its smallest point. This is your waist size and will be the first number in a pair of menâs pants. Next, take the tape measure from about an inch below your no-no squares parts, and run it to your ankle. (You may need a friend or parent to help with this.) This is your inseam length, and will be the second number on a pair of menâs pants. Menâs and boysâ pants are tailored the same way, so if you have trouble finding your waist size in menâs, hop over to the boysâ section. Feel no shame. If theyâd give us decent fucking pants we wouldnât have to steal theirs, right?
Listen you guys, I am SO MAD ABOUT THIS. Iâve seen this first post before, and recently my mom said, âHey, did you see that post on Tumblr about shopping for jeans in the menâs department?â
And I said yeah, Iâd seen it, Iâve been through the Trying To Fit Clothes On My Stupid Body wars, and this post really only applied to skinny jeans because theyâre so stretchy. It couldnât possibly work for regular jeans! I have TRIED SO MANY TIMES. Iâve always shopped in the menâs department because womenâs clothes are like 90% bullshit and 10% fake pockets.
But I hadnât seen the second addition, which gave me more hope, and I decided to just try on a few pairs when I was at Old Navy the other day. They have some âclassicâ jeans with no give to them at all, which is what I was trying on years ago that convinced me it just wasnât possible. (Jeans in my price range didnât really come with any form of stretch back then, as I recall. Textile technology is bad-ass.) But these days they mostly have âflexâ jeans that have some give to them. (Womenâs jeans are usually labeled âstretchâ but apparently menâs have to be âflexâ like they need stretchy garments so their HUGE MUSCLES donât just TEAR THEIR CLOTHES!)
This was totally an impulse decision so I couldnât measure myself, but I grabbed a few sizes based on what I vaguely thought my measurements probably were and decided it couldnât possibly be worse than the endless cycle of regret, dissatisfaction, and recrimination that is trying on womenâs clothing.
The first pair I tried on fit like a DREAM. Iâve been gaining weight lately which is a whole separate nightmare (mainly centered around âbut I donât WANT to buy new bras, this is bullshit!â) and the reason I need to buy new jeans because nothing freaking fits me, and I was sure these wouldnât either, but DAMN. Theyâre the best pair of jeans I own. Twice as thick, pockets twice as big, legs nice and loose (they donât even sell womenâs jeans with a cut remotely similar to this), and contrary to my super dumb opinion from before this experience, theyâve got my plenty of room for all my womanly curvey bits. AND because theyâre actually a relaxed fit instead of trying to cling to every inch of me, they donât show my weight nearly as much as my womenâs jeans do, theyâre easier to move in, theyâre not constantly inching down my hips with every move I make, and overall they just make me feel GOOD about how I look which is a strange new sensation I could definitely get used to.
Itâs like a miracle. I want to cry both out of joy and because of all the shitty jeans now filling my closet when I could have been buying comfortable, relaxed, pocket-having menâs jeans all these years. Many blessings to the posters above, may your crops grow and your cows give milk and your jeans hold all the gadgets you desire.
Also: menâs pants have constant sizes that are based off of actual measurements instead of the womenâs whatever-the-company-wants-to-make-the-size sizes. Theyâre far more reliable and your size will translate to other brands.
@get-dunkd-on help me remember this for our next Goodwill run lmao
I HAVE to try some menâs jeans. Sick of these super skinny show everything always having to be hitched up no pocket crap jeans!
Honestly signal boost. Because imagine this actually starts some kind of ludicrous pants revolution that ends up causing womenâs pants fashion companyâs sales to tank, absolutely forcing them to realize menâs pants have always had the right idea and start doing that instead of this bullshit. Like just imagine. And donât just signal boost this. Tell every woman you know. Tell every trans friend and every curvy friend out there. You see a lady down the street, stop her and tell her youâve discovered a new gospel and itâs purchasing menâs pants. With the way women spread information when weâre excited, the mentioned scenario could actually be hella achievable
PRAISE THE UNIVERSE I FOUND THIS POST AGAIN
Guys. Gals. Non binary pals. As a trans ftm person who just recently started shopping in the menâs department and has gigantic hips full of dysphoria let me tell you a thing.
Athletic cut jeans have more room in the butt. I repeat. Athletic cut jeans have more room in the butt. You donât need to go to the dress pants to fit your lovely curvy self in there. Go to the regular section or big and tall if youâre a bit taller and/or wider, and thereâll be a little section of athletic style jeans. Theyâve still got the giant blessed pockets and the room in the crotch and if youâre really curvy with a large bone structure like I am you can get yourself some quality pants.
This has been an addition by your local nb trans dude. Thank you for your time.
On Wednesday, the U.K. government announced it will waive immigration rules for all foreign nationals directly impacted by the Grenfell Tower fire in London for the next 12 months, NPR reported.
The 12-month suspension means the Home Office will not conduct checks on residents of Grenfell Tower and Grenfell Walk, the Guardian explained. It will also not check the status of anyone coming forward to provide information to authorities.
Immigration minister Brandon Lewis reportedly told MPs the suspension of immigration rules was put in place to protect those who were too afraid to speak with authorities due to their unresolved immigration status, the Guardian noted. Read more (7/6/17)
Arts and crafts retail giant Hobby Lobby has gotten itself into the middle of another massive controversy â and this time, it appears unlikely they can rely on a friendly Supreme Court to bail them out.
According to a statement on the Department of Justiceâs website, acting U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York Bridget Rohde and Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials have reached a settlement with Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. for illegally purchasing over 5,500 Iraqi artifacts for $1.6 million.Â
The artifacts were likely looted from archaeological sites or museums in Iraq during the chaos of the countryâs 14 years of U.S. occupation and civil war, and shipped to the U.S. with falsified labels designating them as tile âsamples.â
A massive black market in stolen archaeological and historical items has spawned in the wake of the United Statesâ 2003 overthrow of Iraqi dictator Saddam Husseinâs government.Â
Baghdadâs National Museum of Iraq was looted as U.S. troops failed to secure key locations throughout the city.Â
More recently, the Islamic State have likely sold a fortune in looted antiquities amid its years-long rampage throughout Iraq and Syria, raising troubling questions about who looted the cuneiforms in the first place. Read more (7/6/17)
So thereâs a possibility that someone from Hobby Lobby directly funded the Islamic State by purchasing these stolen artifacts.Â
If you were fine with Hobby Lobby controlling what goes in and comes out of the vaginas of their employees and continued to shop there, at least stop shopping there now, or else you might be funding terrorism.
And if it seemed a bit weird that a company like that would even be in the market for Iraqi artifacts, the official explanation isnât that reassuring either:
According to the New York Times, Hobby Lobbyâs president, Steve Green, said the collection of artifacts from the biblical-era Fertile Crescent was âconsistent with the companyâs mission and passion for the Bible,â but added the company was ânew to the world of acquiring these items, and did not fully appreciate the complexities of the acquisitions process.â
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