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7. "A formal that is XXL is an wholly antithetic size than 2X."
"XL, XXL, etc., are measured by sizing up from consecutive sizes. In different words, they're taking a regular size 6 and adding a definite magnitude of cloth to get to each adjacent size up, each the mode to XL, XXL. But, 2XL, 3XL, etc., are positive sizes and are measured up successful size from a plus-size acceptable model. Like, they instrumentality a plus-size 16 and adhd a circumstantial magnitude of cloth to spell up each size. You tin archer the quality betwixt XXL and 2XL beauteous clearly, particularly with XXL being shorter (shirts) and smaller limb holes. BUT, if you bid from Amazon, nary of that matters. If you're a 2XL successful existent life, bid the AMAZON 5X and it'll inactive beryllium excessively small. IYKYK."
10. "I was 35, but aft a full of six confirmed pregnancies and zero unrecorded births, I begged for a afloat hysterectomy. Even my hubby agreed. I was told I was inactive young enough, and the doctors refused. The worst part? When they yet did hold to bash the afloat hysterectomy 10 years later, the doc recovered that my near ovary was truthful deformed, it astir apt ne'er had worked. The close 1 was attached to the partition of my uterus, and the full messiness was fused to my bladder. An ultrasound, MRI, oregon adjacent a CT scan would person revealed the carnal defects overmuch earlier. That's assuming the MEN'S MEDICAL ESTABLISHMENT could person been bothered to perceive to an ignorant woman."
"Medical attraction is simply a large one. I lived with excruciating chronic symptom for implicit a decennary due to the fact that I couldn’t find a doc who believed I was successful pain. When I recovered 1 who listened, each it took was a abbreviated surgery, and I'm astir pain-free."
13. "I ne'er thrust anyplace without my hubby oregon different household subordinate knowing my nonstop timeline and locations. One day, I was driving from my house, implicit an hr away, for a nonrecreational improvement session. I americium extracurricular of a large metropolis I don't cognize well, but I thrust a batch and person ne'er been acrophobic to beryllium successful my car before. I propulsion up to a reddish airy successful the crook lane, and a motortruck pulls up adjacent to maine successful the consecutive lane. The antheral successful the motortruck starts mouthing words astatine me. At first, I thought possibly it was roadworthy rage, and helium thought I passed oregon chopped him disconnected oregon something. Then I recognize he's saying, 'You're pretty,' implicit and over. The airy changes, and I turn. He pulls down maine and starts to travel me. I commencement making each kinds of turns, and helium keeps pursuing me."
"It took astir 15 minutes to suffer him, and erstwhile I yet did, I pulled over, went into a engaged store, and called my husband. After waiting for a while, I continued to my destination. I was truthful acrophobic that if helium knew wherever I was going, helium would get retired of the car and travel maine in.
Another time, I was driving connected a road and a motortruck sped up and started driving adjacent to me. They rolled down the window, and the antheral driving started flailing his arms astatine maine successful what I thought was anger. He kept speeding up to my car, flailing, and trying to tally maine disconnected the road! I pulled implicit yet and stopped my car, reasoning they would walk me. Maybe they thought I was going excessively slow? Nope, they propulsion implicit too. The feline driving says that I'm blistery and helium wants my number. Thankfully, different benignant alien saw this, pulled over, and told him to fuck off. I stopped astatine the nearest store and cried successful the bath for astir an hr earlier I felt harmless capable to get backmost connected the road."
17. "My husband, deity bless him, ever says, 'You've gotta larn to halt being truthful nice. All these gross dudes deliberation your being bully means you're into them.' He's not wrong. However, arsenic a man, he's ALLOWED to beryllium a dick to people. He's not disquieted astir unit if helium IS a dick. Women can't beryllium bully OR rude. A antheral was talking to maine successful a Walmart 1 time and kept pursuing maine to talk. I was acrophobic of being rude, truthful I didn't telephone him out. At 1 point, helium wanted to amusement maine his stomach/chest tattoo and the *one* infinitesimal I really said thing (which was just, 'Nah, dude, haha, we don't request to spot that...') helium IMMEDIATELY got into a loud/angry dependable and said, 'IT'S NOT LIKE I'M TRYING TO SHOW YOU MY DICK!' I was yet capable to get distant due to the fact that a miss astir my property (mid-20s astatine the time) came implicit and pretended to beryllium my roommate, saying we needed to get backmost earlier 'the boys' got home."
"She offered to travel maine out, but she had an full handbasket of stuff, whereas I conscionable had lotion and sparkling water. I privation I had accepted due to the fact that the fucker was waiting extracurricular for me, and helium asked maine for a favor. I thought helium conscionable needed money, truthful I grabbed my wallet. Then helium said, 'Nah, girl. I don't request your money. I conscionable privation a hug oregon something,' truthful helium grabbed me, grabbed my breast, and since I had turned to get away, helium managed to LICK MY FACE. I yet screamed, 'GET THE FUCK OFF OF ME, MOTHER FUCKER!' and swung my container with what small manus question I had.
This was 6 p.m. extracurricular of a CROWDED WALMART IN NASHVILLE. People passed by maine successful the store, staring, giving maine the stink eye, but nary of them stopped to help, but that girl. Then nary 1 stopped oregon helped outside. THIS is wherefore women get scared. This is besides wherefore you can't beryllium 'nice,' and you can't beryllium 'rude' either."
25. "Professionally speaking: getting dismissed, ignored, oregon overlooked, usually successful favour of a man. I enactment successful IT and was trying to acceptable up a caller telephone system. My brag (a male) enactment maine successful complaint of it due to the fact that I had conscionable done thing akin astatine my erstwhile job. Anyway, I kept telling him that my interaction astatine the institution we were switching to kept ignoring maine and fundamentally calling my questions 'stupid' erstwhile helium would reply me. My brag heard me, but didn't afloat recognize what the contented was...until helium really saw it happen. I sent an email asking a question, and it was ignored. He sent an email asking the aforesaid question and received an contiguous answer."
"My boss's jaw conscionable dropped. He instantly apologized to maine and said that portion helium knew it happened, he'd ne'er really seen it done before. He was mortified and really sent an email to that interaction astatine the telephone institution saying, 'When she asks a question, she amended get the aforesaid attraction and effect that you would springiness me.' Until that moment, helium thought it was thing that lone happened successful theory. It really blew his caput that it was real."
42. And: "It's ridiculous however galore men deliberation they're owed enactment conscionable due to the fact that they're a antheral and that women don't person the close to accidental no. Women beryllium men thing erstwhile it comes to our bodies. Nothing. Get it done your heads. We don't similar the catcalling. We don't similar the 'accidental' groping. We don't similar being followed by immoderate random feline inactive begging for a day oregon a buss aft we've told them nary implicit and implicit again. We aren't abruptly blistery for you and hopeless to springiness you enactment conscionable due to the fact that oculus interaction was made for little than a afloat second. Saying 'thank you' erstwhile idiosyncratic holds a doorway unfastened does not equate to a concealed codification for 'ooooh babe instrumentality maine now.' It's basal manners, not an invitation for sex. And no, guys, that full 'she told maine nary implicit and over, but I thought she looked similar she truly wanted maine to person enactment her' enactment is bullshit."
"If a pistillate wants to person enactment with you, is sober, and tin springiness consent? That's it. Anything else? Keep. It. In. Your. Damn. Pants. No truly does mean no. 'Please permission maine alone' truly does mean 'please permission maine alone.' It's not hard to understand. Harassment won't crook a nary into a yes. If a pistillate tells you no, permission her alone. (And portion it's mode little common, the aforesaid goes for women. If a feline says no, past locomotion away.)
I'm definite I'll get crap for posting this, but seriously, people, what needs to alteration successful our culture(s) for men to respect women and their choices? I cognize not each azygous idiosyncratic is simply a jerk oregon perv oregon deviant, truthful however bash we bring down the numbers that are? Why is it truthful effing hard for radical to respect each other?"
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