This is not directly related to that, but the story reminded me of a “funny” story. I used to be an engineer for a manufacturer of commercial HVAC equipment and most of our equipment went into the guest rooms of high rise hotels. Occasionally, I got sent to job sites of hotels still under construction (but almost finished so I rarely had to wear a hard hat) to troubleshoot problems with our equipment. The last job I got sent on before I quit that job and transitioned was the Trump Tower in Chicago. Now, I had been on HRT for a year or so, and I had grown my hair out and gotten my ears pierced, but I was still presenting as male at work. But I’m also really short (4’11"). But I butched it up as much as I could for this job because it’s an active construction site. I’m dressed in stereotypical engineer clothes: plaid flannel shirt, jeans, steel-toed Doc Martens, and I have my hair pulled back into a pony tail. I got ma’amed twice my first day on that jobsite, and both times the sales rep who was showing me around ever so helpfully “corrected” the people who called me ma’am. But I got some funny looks. Then, on my way back home a couple of days later, I’m at O’Hare to catch my flight home, and I have to go to the bathroom before I go to the gate. I of course go into the men’s room because, again, I’m still presenting male. On my way into the bathroom, I hear behind me a man say to another man, “Did you see that? That woman just went in the men’s room!” And that trip is when I knew it was time to fully transition, which I did a couple of months later.
Rubiales apologised for the kiss on Monday before Fifa, world football’s governing body, opened disciplinary proceedings against him on Thursday.
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On Friday he apologised for grabbing his crotch while celebrating in the VIP area in Stadium Australia, with Queen Letizia of Spain and her 16-year-old daughter standing nearby.
At age nine, this was a big deal to me at the time.
He’s now been suspended by FIFA pending their investigation.
This should be a gift link, courtesy of Wonkette. I admire these women and feel for their pain and fright.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/08/26/revenge-porn-leaked-nudes-police/
Can’t read it. 
Here ya go…
If you go to:
You can put in most urls and come up with a static, archived version that gets around the paywall.
Thank’ee, kind lady!
She started her channel after moving from her native Iraq to Turkey at the age of 17 in 2017, talking about her independence, her fiancé, make-up and other things. Tiba appeared happy and attracted tens of thousands of subscribers.
This January she went back to Iraq to visit her family - and was murdered by her father. However, the killing was not considered to have been “pre-meditated” and her father was sentenced to only six months in prison.
About time!!!
They don’t mention the most basic reason in the States: racism. No amount of medical knowledge can change that. But I was intrigued at ideas such as an iron infusion during a prenatal visit results in a lower likelihood of bleeding out during delivery.
Racism is definitely behind the disparity between Black and BIPOC mothers and pregnant people and white ones. But even if that were fixed, we’d still be way too high. Because of misogyny and forced birth culture and laws.
Pregnancy is not as well understood as it should be. The research doesn’t get the funding it needs. We still don’t know what causes pre-eclampsia or a lot of the excessive bleeding the article mentioned. Then add in our disastrous health care situation, leaving so many pregnant people without adequate prenatal care. In truth, a person should be getting prenatal care six months before they even plan on getting pregnant. Or even longer if they have any health issues. But too many can’t even control getting pregnant.
Sorry. Taking a deep breath. I’m glad to see the Gates foundation taking this on. Where they lead a lot of attention and money follows.
So certain outlets, such as the Daily Liar, are making accusations based on the supposed content of revenge porn videos. I figure
Either
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the reporters involved watched revenge porn, which means they knowingly violated people’s sexual boundaries, or
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they made it up, which makes them defamers and untrustworthy, or
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they believe someone who either watched revenge porn or made it up or believed someone who either…
In any case this makes the accusers untrustworthy.
The headline doesn’t mention it, but they break it down between male and female graduates.
The only college major in which women outperform the median male salary (barely) for 15 different majors is engineering. For men, 5 out of 15 majors make more than that highest-paying major for women, and in every major they make more than women. So, no progress detected.
She says so many things I have felt or thought, especially about moving in performance and entertainment circles in any capacity at all… and her take on the way men like Brand are treated vs women working in the industry is freaking spot on and speaks to what a lot of us face day to day in our working life and personal life no matter what job we do or role we fill.
I watched one of her stand-up sets years ago and it was funny, hard hitting, honest, vulnerable, touching, and moreover… funny. I haven’t watched the new ones yet though but probably will soon.
But honestly she does so well with this kind of unstructured format and handles more serious topics so well that I kind of hope she keeps up the podcast.
Though he’s kind of verbose and takes a meandering path to get to the point, it’s still well worth watching.
Yeah, some represent the misogynistic sensibilities of their times…but damned if some aren’t straight-up timeless! And big kudos to the late, great June Foray, without whom the various vocalizations of these furious females would’ve been im-possible!