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• Wow. As someone who suffered through the TX Public School System's avoidance of sex education and evolution, I am appalled that now we can't even talk about Thurgood Marshall. Are these people serious?? Really??? We barely spend any time on
  (posted to As if school textbooks weren't bad enough. )
• Shark-fu...thank you. The Gates thing has been discussed in the media ad nauseum-- but the angle you took here regarding the privilege of anger really gets at the heart of the issue for me.
  (posted to Notes from a bitch...pondering the privilege of anger...)
• Wow. That article made me speechless-- a rare event for me! I re-read that last paragraph like 8 times to really soak it up.
  (posted to Ann's on vacation....)
• Absolutely! It happens to me all the time. Sometimes people just say "maybe you're pregnant!" as a joke, but others really seem to think that. How is that the immediate reaction to a headache??? Additionally, when I was in college
  (posted to "Experiencing an ailment of any kind? You're probably pregnant.")

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• Y'know what's weird? I kept hearing Dr. Kern's quotes in the voice of Doc Cottle, from Battlestar Galactica. Lost none of its power, actually. As Lisa said, it has some appalling style problems, but the article itself is otherwise very (posted to Ann's on vacation....)
• You know I don't do this to myself, because its not possible for me to become pregnant, but anything that I experience gets waived off as pregnancy by the people who don't know me that well. At which time I (posted to "Experiencing an ailment of any kind? You're probably pregnant.")
• I got this reply just the other day. I'd eaten something that didn't agree with me and was being pretty violently sick at work. Of course, the first thing my colleagues did was rub their hands with glee and ask (posted to "Experiencing an ailment of any kind? You're probably pregnant.")
• YES. How annoying is this assumption that any symptom in a female of childbearing age means she must be pregnant. I have had this when I vomited. Er no it's called MIGRAINE. And thanks for that post rebekah, as someone (posted to "Experiencing an ailment of any kind? You're probably pregnant.")
• Lisa, criticize away! I think it's important to point out that just because an Ob/Gyn isn't shot in the head or isn't abused physically or verbally all that much all's well and we should be most thankful for some crumbs (posted to Ann's on vacation....)

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