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You're definitely not alone. I pick up a good romance novel every now and again. I also like how you pointed out that it's a case by case basis as I will never condone 50 shades and the like.

I also like how you made a point that there is actually a story and relationship development. Think about how many movies have a few sex scenes without it being the focus of the whole romance film (e.g. No Strings Attached, The Notebook, etc.). I think the huge difference between romance novels and porn, is that women are not being objectified as often in romance novels because women are the ones writing them.

I am resolutely against visual porn involving real human beings, but I think that (written) erotica by women can be an incredibly powerful tool in allowing women to explore their sexuality safely without exposing themselves to a constant stream of images of beaten and battered women. The content involved in such books (i.e. unsafe kinks) should be judged on a case-by-case manner whether or not it is harmful, because there are some genuinely good stories in this genre. It’s also important to always read everything critically, and I’m not saying that erotica should be exempt from this or general criticism.

also worth noting that out of all pornography types, written erotica (by women for women) is the most scorned and ridiculed by mainstream society- the porn that widely actually involves a story and relationship development is the one that gets made fun of for being embarrassing to engage in. Shocker.

I’m not sure if this is an unpopular opinion, but I’d love to hear other people’s thoughts! 🤍🤍

Ugh, I'll always hate this trend. As the daughter of a nurse, I was taught growing up that acrylic and fake nails are not okay because they are terrible for your actual nails, especially if done repeatedly, and because they harbor bacteria between the fake nail and your real nail. You can safely paint your nails for far less money anyway. If you do want to get them painted professionally, try to find a nail salon that is family owned or one where you can verify the workers are not trafficked. I grew up in the midwest US and I got pedicures at the same nail salon for over a decade because I knew it was owned by a local Vietnamese family.

I hate the trend of long acrylic nails so much. Ah yes, let's encourage young women to do something to their hands that will prevent them from doing most everyday activities. I get occasionally wanting to decorate your body. I get it. I paint my nails on occasion. But me painting my nails purple does not prevent me from handling small objects. Tricking young women into paying 35+€ every three weeks for the pleasure of not being able to use their hands is cruel.

Bonus: In Europe at least, many of the women doing your nails are trafficking victims, forced to work for essentially no pay with chemicals and dust that will permanently destroy their lungs and airways. All so you can be unable to use your hands.

What the actual fuck. She wasn’t even remotely transphobic, she just wanted to stay true to her beliefs and not expose her hair to the male SEX. The XY chromosome combo. She's not "misgendering" anyone. She didn’t use the "wrong" pronouns or anything like that. All she did was defend her personal belief based in her religion that she keep her hair covered in front of biological males. Funny how Islam is super woke to all the leftists until it conflicts with all their gender-bending philosophy and self-identifying trend.

Aaand everyone’s calling her transphobic

As someone who grew up in the coldest state in the midwest, literally nothing was more annoying than guys mocking us girls growing up for "being a wimp and getting cold so easily". Like, excuse me, but I would like to see a high school aged boy to try and survive a Minnesota January after shaving all the hair off their legs and underarms, while wearing a coat that is designed not with their warmth, but with the transparency of their figure, in mind, and wearing the thin black leggings from Target or Pink or wherever. Not to mention a lean figure has always been made to be the ideal one for women.

What really gets me is that they won't call her a mother, but then they go and refer to her female child as "daughter". Damn hypocrites.

I have not read the whole article yet, and I'm not defending the hospital in any way, shape, or form, but I do wonder if the whole "specimen" comment had to do with age of viability. The age of viability is generally considered to be around 22 weeks and has stayed right around there for the past two decades. My sister was born in 2003 at 22 weeks 4 days gestation. Today, an Alabama boy holds the record for the most premature baby to survive. Curtis Means was born 132 days premature on July 5, 2020 at the University of Alabama at Birmingham when the mother was 21 weeks and one day pregnant. There are plenty of other stories out there about women who had a stillborn child or a child who died soon after delivery at 18 to 19 weeks gestation, and the hospital refused to give them a birth or death certificate because, according to the CDC, they had only suffered a miscarriage, or their baby was of "previable age".

I don't think this is an ethical or healthy practice, because it dehumanizes infants and mothers alike, but it should be known that it is not a one-off situation.

Babe wake up new word for women just dropped: ✨lifegiver✨