hillary cass is to gender-affirming care what andrew wakefield is to vaccinations.

Like, dressing room mirrors and fluorescent bar lighting already exist, ma’am. I can hurt my own feelings just fine without your help.

“… I may be a bit squishy around the middle these days, but I’ve also never smoked the grocery money.”

Cigarettes come filtered. My response to attempted body shaming does not.

I should mention that she was a Lab mix with the typical webbed paws. Her capacity for mucky feet was prodigious.

We’re a No Outside Shoes household. My dog has passed on now, but when she was young we taught her how to “wipe her feet” by digging them on the mat. If it was muddy or snowy out, we kept a bin of old rags by the door to clean her paws.

Came here to relay this exact bit of wisdom, learned from my family’s Navy vets.

(Now, if only they’d stop telling me they’ll throw me overboard if I ever wash the pot with soap.)

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There is no such thing as accidental cruelty from the architects and puppet masters of this perverse, evil Administration.

All of it is intentional. All of it is being executed according to a plan carefully designed to outlast its current mascot. 5/5

Almost all of the affected professions are mandatory reporters for child abuse, intimate partner violence, and sexual assault. 4/5

It’s not just that all of the degree fields that Trump’s Department of Education wants to de-legitimize include jobs that are predominantly staffed by women. 3/5

It’s not just that political policies shape cultural attitudes, and that this decision will channel even more contempt, distrust, and disrespect toward the people who work in these positions. 2/5

All the other GenXers ran straight to Nine Inch Nails, but Tori Amos was first to my mind.

That style is called clog dancing, or clogging. It does descend from Irish step dancing, with Scottish, English, and African influences. It’s what home sounds like for me. Glad you’re enjoying it!