The matter of MW being a man with seriously regressive views, including on abortion, isn't a question.

This is all so awesome, I love my fellow K-pop mums/moms/grannies!

It's just not hard to answer. *I do have a slightly more expensive personal definition, which includes CAIS individuals (no masculinizing puberty, socialized from birth as female, female phenotype) as social women, so if asked to expand on that, I would.

The problem is, it's just not that intrinsically complex. It's an unnecessary conversation. People can have identity and presentations that don't align with their sex without pretending this is enormously complicated. AHF is the least regressive definition. It doesn't state anything about womanhood other than age and sex. Within that definition, women are free to be as various and diverse as they are. Other definitions are either circular ( a woman is someone who identifies as a woman), or sexist (a woman is someone who performs women-gendered activities). Nobody has to give MW the time of day. I wouldn't. Doesn't mean I need to pretzel myself out of a truth.

MW is an very regressive person. Nonetheless, the answer is as above. It's an annoying question because it's one to which everyone actually knows the answer.

Adult human female.

Ty - I'm Spalding and Multilit trained, which is handy.

Awesome, thanks. I'm hoping to be doing reading programs M-Th in a local school next term, but not employed by DoE - through a charity. Just waiting on funding. But will check out OG/MSL in the meantime.

I'm sorry. That is so demotivating. If schools want to retain teachers, they need to start treating them as people and not maneuverable widgets. You have my sympathy and also my outrage. Signed, She who is quitting her school-based tutoring job this term without anything to go to, because it's that bad.

Because historic things happening often happen on the other side of the world, I've nearly always been in bed, or just out of bed making a cuppa, when I've heard the news. My mum woke me up twice - once to tell me about when someone tried to kill the then-Pope, and when John Lennon was murdered. My ex woke me to tell me about 9/11 and about the London Tube bombings. I was in Europe for the fall of the Berlin Wall, but have zero memory of hearing about it. I don't have many of those lightbulb memories. The one about John Paul is strongest, because as my mother told me, she opened the blinds in my room, and the light flooding in is superimposed with the news in my mind. And after that, 9/11, standing waiting for the kettle to boil with the radio on, and telling ex I was sure it must be a hoax because I just couldn't believe it. The saddest memory I have is of a massacre that happened in Tasmania, AU, in the 1990s. Ex and I were lying down and listening to music (pre-Spotify, radio) and news began to break in of a gunman in Port Arthur. We listened to the news all afternoon and into the evening, as it became increasingly clear how deadly the afternoon had been. It was horribly shocking - we don't have mass shootings the way you guys do, although there had been a few prior.

When dd2 broke up with her partner of 4 years, I did not talk to the ex. I remembered how I felt when I broke up with a partner of 2 years, and my parent seemed as if they couldn't adapt and just 'be on my side'. Childish? Maybe. Still, as soon as I heard from my dd about the split, that was it - to me, it wasn't appropriate to speak to the ex, or continue any kind of independent relationship with her. So I vote that you handled it fine. You weren't unkind, you just recognized the boundaries had changed.

You can have children with whom the fit is smoother than others.

It's the same here..

This. And honestly, sweeping is a pretty good choice and a whole heck of a lot better than my mother's choices aka get physical. I wouldn't really describe it as rage, for me, but being flooded with adrenaline. And not being able to leave the adrenaline causing situation. Physical movement that is not directed at others is a good coping strategy.

My perspective would be a different one, I guess. If a pod is meeting the same minimum standards as a homeschool in that state, the cost may be worth it to a mother who doesn't want to have to quit her career, but whose child can't be in school.

That's awesome. Study is soo satisfying!

This.

There need to be better options for the significant minority of kids for whom institutional schooling is damaging. I've seen the same post Covid rise in 'offerings', for the h/s community, often from retired teachers with zero understanding of a homeschool cohort. People seeking to make a business from a market they just don't understand. I would 100% run a pod if it wasn't illegal here. I teach homeschoolers and have done since my own kids were small - I could do a good job of it. I don't think there's anything wrong with the concept, and it could work for a limited set of parents whose children need not to be in school and who have the $ to outsource and who don't want to have to quit work.

Yes. I particularly like sweeping as a rage-outlet. You can put your whole body into it..

You may be in iso to protect you from any other hospital acquired infections - Prednisone takes out your immune system. Regardless, that's horrible for you. I'm so sorry. There are people (often RNs) who offer a private advocacy service. I don't know how to find one in VIC but you may need a family member to find someone who can guide them through advocating for you. I'm so sorry 😞

It's more the smell. It's a personal preference. It's fine, I haven't picketed the cafe, I just don't go anymore.

I don't want to see or smell a urinal, though. It's the only local cafe that has this arrangement so I just go to nicer ones!

I like the museum near me. It has female toilets with stalls and open sinks, including stalls with provisions for prams. It has male toilets; I don't know how it's configured. It has accessible bathrooms, which are single-stall and self-enclosed. It has gender-neutral bathrooms that are single-stall and self-enclosed. There is a baby change room and also baby change facilities in the female loos. ~ I don't like the library near me. It is a large room behind a heavy door - on one side of the room are narrow self-enclosed stalls for women and on the other side the same for men. For some reason the lighting is dark. I don't use it unless I'm going in with someone I know, because it feels really unsafe. ~ I don't mind self-enclosed gender-neutral single loos so long as they are not down some long corridor or something. There's a cafe I've stopped going to that has a urinal in both of its self-enclosed loos. Yuck. I have no idea why you need a urinal and a stall in a single-person toilet.

No human is scum, whether they are on my ignore list or not. It's just interesting that the same people who think pronouns are a life and death matter are quite happy to be relentless in their personally-directed bullying.