"The procedures already had a heightened humiliation factor for women, which I’ve experienced myself*, but it took making white men feel like women and people of color often do for this to be pushed into the next zone of full blown anger."
- Alis Dee
NSFW possibly, but this is medical, not porny. A must-see for all women, I think (and hell, men too). I'm feeling a lot better about my own boobs after looking at this, that's for sure.
- Alis Dee
I had a minor "fat = health" incident the other weekend, where I managed to get my (extremely skinny, vegetarian nutritionist) cousin to admit that dieting is rarely effective and not a magic bullet for health.
- Alis Dee
"Her mother reminded her it was a OK to be different, to which Katie, who is adopted and the only one in her class who wears glasses, responded, "But it's not OK to be too different.""
- Alis Dee
"No, we don't respect your desire to needlessly torment animals because some hallucinating desert nomads did it centuries ago. We don't respect it at all. You can cry that we are "persecuting" you if we stop you committing acts of cruelty if you want."
- Alis Dee
And this is why they call it "security theatre". Honestly, this shit happens. People are so fucking terrible (or frequently aren't allowed to be good at) at risk assessment. Keeps me employed though, I guess. Also: Comments, AVOID AVOID!
- Alis Dee
Cancer surviving flight attendant forced to remove prosthetic breast during pat-down - http://www.wbtv.com/Global...
"Because the minute I take someone to task for not using English correctly, I am making a lot of assumptions about the person I am talking to. I am assuming the following."
- Alis Dee