no boys allowed in the room!!!!

how old r u

i hate dryer sheets, they are pointless

i don't like anything that makes things smell like anything!

Mr. Franco and I are 4 mo. and 10 days apart in age and I believe he's currently attending my alma matter.

http://www.mblcosmeticsandmore.com/files/2343446/uploaded/Loves%20Baby%20Soft.jpg

?

damn erica lol

http://lee.org/journal/journal%20030104-043004/jean-nate.jpg

en vaporisateur

hahahaha touche

yall check out this creepy ad btw:

http://rgh.cc/albums/userpics/10001/%5Bcreepy%5Dloves-baby-soft-ad-c1976.jpg

(wait - I dind't actually know that . . . I looked it up just now. Just wanted to make sure you didn't think I was some franco-obsessed crazy person)

ew rapey

xp

ok yeah, that is exceptionally creepy

would not judge tbh: this is a girls only clubhouse for sharing and caring

ha i was going to go look for a photo of jean nate but was too lazy

i mean about enbb and franco, not about innocence being sexier than u think
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OK REALLY THAT AD IS COMPLTELY WRONG AND WTF?!

this guy was suck a fuckin babe in 'go' and 'deadwood' but there are basically no other online pics of him where he doesn't look like a plastic surgery model

http://www.jdmfilmreviews.com/userimages/user-6813828_1179400556.jpg

lol 'suck'

sposed to be 'such'

freudian slip, ladies

wtf is a dryer sheet

my femininity is feeling threatened

am i supposed to know these things?

OK, I totally had this in middle school:

http://images.bidorbuy.co.za/user_images/866/419Discretion_Exclamation_by_Coty.jpg

who was yalls favorite new kid

(jordan)

yeah or else you are a failure as a woman sorry xp

speaking of gross ads, have y'all seen these:

http://www.sostav.ru/articles/rus/2008/columns/golden/images/gf_05.jpg

w t f

i don't remember which one was favorite, i had their tape but i was like 5 or 6

o sorry that was so hueg ugh

i bet enbb liked donnie

jesus christ xpost

the one with the curly hair, i forget his name

tim olyphant in Go is a crush archetype of mine

Dryer sheets are fabric softener sheet things you put in the clothes dryer to make things smell "nice" and eliminate static.

OK WHAT IS THAT AD???

I had NKOTB earrings and my favorite was . . . DONNY! I liked the bad one. lol.

OMG HOW DID YOU KNOW IT WOULD BE DONNY!?

wait

it was joey

is it "ie" whoops - guess I'm not such a fan as I once was

mine was joey too! i was not going to be the first to admit that

xpost

someone is yelling homophobic slurs at some lesbians outside

tim olyphant in Go is . . . hot

i simultaneously had a huge crush on jason priestly too

lol then i turned 13 and got a crush on billy corgan

yes i preferred priestly to perry.

I thought the rest of New Kids were too girly or something idk but I was in love with Donnie. lol. Oh man.

I preferred priestly to perry too.

i always liked nice boys

I was just watching the video for Roy Orbison's "I drove All Night" the other day and had completely forgotten that it stars Priestly and J Connelly and is pretty steamy.

i liked luke perry, but liked jordan over donnie, i am an anomaly

i always like big queens with high pitched voices i think

and i mean hello

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cornwall/content/images/2007/07/11/rufuswainwright1_470x350.jpg

lol

I went with my bff for her colposcopy. They let me be in the room to hold her hand and it was AWFUL. My poor buddy was in shock afterwards. I can’t remember the details since this was 20+ years ago, but she had to go back for another procedure of some kind, maybe a second colposcopy? and she asked if she could be put under for it. They said yes but didn’t inform her of the no eating/drinking thing. We get to the hospital and they’re like ohh you’ll have to be awake since you didn’t fast oh well 🤷‍♀️ which I think is bullshit and they never intended to put her under GA. They tried to coerce her but I grabbed her said guess we’ll just have to reschedule and got her out of there. This is why my husband comes to every dr appointment with me (and I go to his) unless it’s impossible. It sucks but I only feel safe with healthcare professionals if I have an advocate with me.

(apologies)

Doctors urged to treat pain for IUD insertion and other procedures

Countless patients have suffered through in-office gynecological procedures like IUD insertions or cervical biopsies, with nothing more than ibuprofen and white knuckles.

Pain is complex and individual. One patient might feel little to no discomfort and for another it can be excruciating. But some clinicians don't offer pain management because they believe it's unnecessary.

In its new recommendations for cervical and uterine procedures, released last week, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists says there is "an urgent need" for this to change.

fucking finally

my cervical biopsy was excruciating! & the stupid nurses assistant was saying infantilizing shit like “just breathe in and then out like you’re blowing out a birthday candle” and i’m glaring with tears streaming down my face like OMG LADY IF YOU DONT SHUT THE FUCK UP RIGHT THE FUCK NOW

reminds me how they used to do surgery on babies without anesthesia because they thought babies couldn't feel pain

if only there was some way to figure out what those crazy cervix-havers are feeling! but i guess we'll never know

i'm sorry for what you went thru, VG!

Had to have another ultrasound as part of removing my now-defunct IUD, which was a little harder to get out than expected...definitely not fun but a decent excuse to take half a day off work and eat cherries on the couch while the cramps wore off.

Anyway I learned that apparently I have two fibroids, one of which is bigger than my actual uterus?!? They don't hurt (with one exception, more on that in a sec) so the doc says leave them because the surgery is, in her words, "bloody." So I guess I have fibroids now? I mean I've probably had them for years and maybe because I was already peri/post-menopausal the impact was minimal? The exception is that this is probably why some...things got more and more painful over time and I never stopped to assess "this wasn't like this before." I've mentioned to my NP a few times, hey, activities aren't that fun, feels like there's too much furniture in the living room if you know what I mean, and she didn't follow up on that. :( So I guess unless I want to have a bloody and probably expensive surgery, I will not be accessing some parts of human relationshipping which is not making me feel BETTER about my future.

Anyway I learned that apparently I have two fibroids, one of which is bigger than my actual uterus?!? They don't hurt (with one exception, more on that in a sec) so the doc says leave them because the surgery is, in her words, "bloody." So I guess I have fibroids now? I mean I've probably had them for years and maybe because I was already peri/post-menopausal the impact was minimal? The exception is that this is probably why some...things got more and more painful over time and I never stopped to assess "this wasn't like this before." I've mentioned to my NP a few times, hey, activities aren't that fun, feels like there's too much furniture in the living room if you know what I mean, and she didn't follow up on that. :( So I guess unless I want to have a bloody and probably expensive surgery, I will not be accessing some parts of human relationshipping which is not making me feel BETTER about my future.

― Ima Gardener (in orbit)

shit, that's awful :(

i have a lot of cis female friends who deal with similar limitations on certain parts of human relationshipping and i fucking _hate_ how much stigma there is around women who have those limitations. i mean the women i know with those problems are often lesbians, and still feel like "what woman would want me if i can't do _that_". even though to a lot of us lesbians that kind of thing isn't something that's important to me or even something that i particularly want!

i'm happy to be a woman and i'm happy to be 50 and i'm happy guys aren't creeps to me but it's hard seeing so many women my age, particularly cis women, being told in so many words that having normal health issues for a woman their age makes them "broken" somehow :(

Oh no the broken part I blame Christian purity culture for. I've had that for like 40 years.

yeah fair! i'm more of a... like they say in the meme, "why not both" haha

interesting to see you talking about this, idk if you're reading "what are you doing with your time and gifts" thread, a guy just posted something there that... it's not the same thing, there are gender differences, i just kinda went "huh interesting" when i read it

Por que no los dos?!

ah i've got two fibroids too, io. fortunate that the big one is located outside the uterine wall which meant that, albeit high-risk, I was still able to get pregnant and give birth this year (yay!). but it's also pushing up on my bladder which means that I have to pee pretty much every two hours and have an increased risk of kidney problems (boo!). I've had it a long time now, first detected during a routine check-up about six years ago.

the other one is much smaller and also outside the uterine wall and developed during the pregnancy. for both, my obgyn just recommended regular monitoring instead of surgery as well. re 'bloody': I had a caesarean and asked if it was possible to remove the fibroids at the same time and got the same response... it wasn't possible then due to high risk of bleeding out. :/

The thing with fibroids is that they do grow and shrink over time - mine grew massive during my pregnancy but shrunk to about 5cm a few months after delivery.

So there's a good chance that yours may too? but of course it's hard to say because it's all dependent on hormones, those pesky pesky hormones, and of course despite how common fibroids are, there's very little research on what causes them or how to treat them, and of course there are a lot of snake oil merchants out there claiming to be able to shrink them "naturally" through diet or supplements (and it's all bullshit). of course of course of course

I am starting to have hot flashes. At least that’s what I think they are… like “wow I feel like I have a really bad sunburn on my face!” … then “it’s 65 degrees and I wasn’t out in the sun so …”

My female reproductive apparatus has felt like a tremendous curse ever since I realized how miserable it would make me for the rest of my life. It has remained authentic to its mission for sure.

Cosigning that so hard