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Are these old people? Long ago, all gas stations were full service, and even after that women weren’t really allowed to pump their own gas tho men would. There were even some joke books, Real Men Don’t Eat Quiche and Real Women Don’t Pump Gas. It seems so dated and pointless to me, and I’m old (I do remember being very little and my mom having trouble finding a gas station that still did fill up and windows for her)

not even joking but when i konmari'd my space, it freed up my mind from so much mental clutter and literally felt lighter after i finished the process. decluttering is a mentally and emotionally cleansing process that i would recommend to anyone.

>I have read that wars are used as a method of culling the population, not sure if this is what you are referring to

exactly this. 'bare branches' of men tend to lead to political instability, or be used as tools for societal instability.

👌😎 you're life's going to change for the better: i guarantee it. a squatty potty would also be a nice addition to really elevate (🥴) your bathroom experience.

>HEPA air purifier

i heard you can get an air purifier on the cheap with a box fan, tape, and an air filter. most people seem to be happy with this option over the actual air purifying unit. google hepa air filter box fan to see what options you have.

i recently bought myself a pair of boots that i said i was going to buy for/after christmas. i got them at the best time, however, because they keep my feet warm and dry during these chilling autumnal rains.

squatty potty. diet is remarkably important, but posture is also a very important and underrated part of the equation.

a bidet is a great tool for clean up.

i don't like coffee either, so i just drink caffeine pills. they don't make me poop, they don't wear off after five minutes, and they don't taste like anything.

>Read Women who run with the wolves

i read a few chapters and was blown away each time. Dr. Pinkola-Estes has a long, rich, and meandering sort of way to explain each of the stories in 'Women Who Run With the Wolves', and many times i found myself rolling my eyes at what she had to say, until one sentence later, she wrote something that made everything make sense. kinda like how my mom explains things to me. the epiphanies and insight she gave me are something that i will carry with me for the rest of my life. kinda like what my mom has done for me.

every woman should read 'Women Who Run With the Wolves', but fair warning: it will be one of the most difficult reads of your life. no joke, 'The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma' was an easy read compared to 'Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype'.

I really just want to say that this absolutely need not be a hang up. Inesecurities are normal and everyone has tons of them (even the ones you think wouldn't) and vulnerability is elemental to connection (in otherwords, is a turn on if properly owned).

On that note I will say that Models by Mark Manson is my favorite dating advice book goes into the how and why of this much more in depth. If you find you like his take, his website has inexpensive courses with exercises to implement said view. Sorry if this sounds like an ad, it isn't one.

Feel free to DM as well. Best of luck to you

I used to be super skinny - like the newspaper geek who works with Nancy in the new season of Stranger Things. Adderall in high school didn’t help, and I think it’s largely genetic because my mom was the same way. Plus after I got off the Adderall, the only way I could stay alert to focus in college was to skip meals (because I was eating trash that would send me into a food coma).

I’m a healthy weight now though - I feel a lot better eating more (which I had to do to be able to breastfeed, or a my supply would tank, and the habit stuck), and it’s SO much easier for me to put on muscle at the gym now that I eat more.

I definitely had an advantage over most people though, in terms of developing a healthy relationship with food, because I never felt like I was fat. Food was just another part of the day. I had plenty of OTHER things that sent me into guilt spirals every day (mostly time management related stuff, due to the ADHD, and accidentally offending people because I was still figuring out how to socialize like a normal person who didn’t spend her entire childhood buried in books), but food wasn’t one of those things.

Now I have a daughter who LOVES to eat, and I’m hoping I can help guide her into a healthy relationship with food too even though she won’t constantly have everyone telling her it’s ok if she eats more. I figure treating food like it’s a normal healthy part of the day is the best we can do for now. And demonstrating sustainable healthy eating habits instead of dieting on and off.

There’s a really good book one of my friends found, that helped them reframe the way they think about food and fitness: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08RSKRFRK She said it’s a bit informal but really helped her.

> That's what feminism is.

I personally agree with you that this simple deinition should be what feminism is. But feminism can be many things and has changed over the years. Reading this book really opened my eyes on how many shapes it can take.

There are some feminists branches that want to eradicate men. I wouldn't call that a fight for equal rights and that's still called feminism. Trans-exclusionary feminists are also technically feminists, even though they voluntarily exclude a certain type of people from their fight for equality.

We should be careful with the no true Scotsman fallacy. Feminism has no fixed book of rules, there are frequent common themes but it's necessary to be precise because the word feminism doesn't really have an agreed upon meaning. That's why it's tricky to simply call yourself a feminist in my view, it's too vague.

> It's not as complex as people try to present it. It's the multiple branches and feminists themselves that often make it confusing. The many acronyms and complex sociological concept don't help. I don't think the majority of people on this earth are really clear on what very central ideas like the patriarchy or intersectionality mean.

But maybe there are basically two feminisms, activist feminism and what I'd call every day feminism which is basically common decency and respect. Still, it's the same word and it requires calrification.