Yes, guys can get it, but it is much more rare.
Plus there are so many women's shoes that just fall off my feet or give me blisters or ....or. Despite my wishes I'm reduced to trainers most of the time. keep to the Fen Causeway
Seriously I've tried cos I love wearing heels, I love how they make me feel, but...I can't. keep to the Fen Causeway
Helen, I never knew that about men's feet, how odd. Of course, it makes me wonder how some of those drag queens manage the monster heels they wear. Those shoes look painful enough as it is without that factored in. Member of the Anti-Fabulousness League since 1987.
Also different people grow in different ways, I was fortunate in that I don't have huge ridges and so don't have to worry about them on my eyebrows and hands, but they're enough to hurt my feet. keep to the Fen Causeway
What does this mean? (Go easy on me). When locusts move on, they leave nothing behind
Lacking any bony ridges, that may be the only possible way to go on you. Come, my friends, 'Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
I should point out that one of my friends is an FtM, so I've kinda seen a lot of trans stuff from the other side. He has actually written a report about transsexual people and health care in Europe, which I am considering a diary about, just cause he's my friend. Member of the Anti-Fabulousness League since 1987.
Eyebrow ridges are bony protusions on men's faces. It seems related to manual labour cos you see them regularly on builders etc, but rarely on office workers. I guess ya gotta be looking for them cos mostly we see the face, not the constituent parts.
Talking of essays on transgenderism, here are the three I wrote
Thoughts in a Waiting Room
In the Land between Blue and Pink
Men/Women : Emotions and multi-tasking keep to the Fen Causeway
Also, I found your analysis of your condition to be different to what I expected. My friend is often quick to overturn common narratives, and rephrase his experiences and insights in entirely new ways.
You also mentioned you were working on a 'transition diary'. Anything come of it? Member of the Anti-Fabulousness League since 1987.
What analysis of my condition did you expect ? I'm curious. keep to the Fen Causeway
I hope I made it plain that TGs are less united by their similarities than by their dissimilarities. Each of us has a different experience of our condition, a different understanding of it. It is very easy to read books and trim your personal narrative to fit an attractive wider theory as a form of self-validation. But too many of these books are written by people who early on betray they have no real understanding of the phenomenon. For instance, the entire charing Cross experience is driven by what I consider to be an unsympathetic psychological approach that regards people who aren't dissuaded and proceed to surgery as failures.
So there are no wider views, I extrapolate where I can, but make it plain that I am doing so from a statistical sample of one.
I can only write about what happened to me and how I felt about it. keep to the Fen Causeway
You know, respect for all the shoe diaries and such - but WHY?
Mysteries of life.
<ducks and runs very far away> You can't be me, I'm taken
I hope that this was quite a bit down the list, after 'some men are pigs', and 'smiling is obligatory'. Member of the Anti-Fabulousness League since 1987.
Most women in the UK seem to be of the "all men are bastards" opinion. I've actually had rather terse conversations where my willingness to defend males has been taken as a sign that I'm still not a real woman.
Smiling isn't obligatory, but people are nicer to women so smiling is easier. keep to the Fen Causeway
It would depend on the individual actions and character of a man as to whether I would defend him, but I think it unacceptable to abuse whoever chose to do so. The women who insulted you were out of line, and you ought to have come back by asking why the hell they thought they were women? Their answer would have probably been nothing more than some essentialist or constructionist diatribe. Member of the Anti-Fabulousness League since 1987.
Their answer would have probably been nothing more than some essentialist or constructionist diatribe.
It has long been my argument that essentialism displaced feminism in the UK over 30 years ago. The difference between the "feminist" debates in the UK compared to say France or the US is a generational chasm. keep to the Fen Causeway
I'm personally not of the opinion that all men are bastards. Some men are really quite beautiful and wonderful people.
Phew! I feel relieved... "Ne te courbe que pour aimer..." René Char
There used to be four flavor groups: sweet, sour, salt and bitter. All but sweet and salt have disappeared from most foods. Try to name a popular food item which is bitter or sour.
I occasionally buy schav (sorrel soup), but this has been sweetened too. The same goes for cabbage soup. And we wonder why so many people are having health and weight problems... Policies not Politics ---- Daily Landscape
sweet, sour, salt and bitter
I would add to this: spicy. I actually try to integrate all five tasts in a meal and try to avoid processed food like the devil. :-) I find if I stay with lots of fresh vegetables I get all tastes easily.
And of course the food companies have to add sugar and salt as it is more addictiv.
Well, sour like from lemon juice or vinegar in the salad sauce, which I always make myself.
and I guess both bitter and sour are also in Helen's cranberries. :-)
That's what comes to mind right now, I am sure if I would think about it more I could think of others too.
as sour are also considered: rhubarb, tomatoes, sauerkraut, yoghurt.
additional bitters can be considered: parsley, celery tops, garlic, onion, dandelion, which you can currently find fresh in the fields.
To wit: DANNON Fruit on the Bottom Blueberry Serving Size: 6 oz; 170g
Cultured grade A lowfat milk, blueberries, sugar, fructose syrup, high fructose corn syrup, contains less than 1% of modified corn starch, pectin, kosher gelatin, sodium phosphate, malic acid, natural flavor, calcium phosphate. Contains active yogurt cultures including L. acidophilus.
Sugars 25g Protein 6g
(By the way this used to come in an 8oz container, it is now 6oz.) Policies not Politics ---- Daily Landscape
dandelion, which you can currently find fresh in the fields
And in my chemically untreated lawn. Just what I need-another excuse not to mow it. ;)
Juices are supposed to contain actual juice, almost exclusively. The juice will usually have been macerated within an inch of its life, freeze dried, shipped across the world in a leaky tanker, warmed up and reconstituted before being chilled again. So it's not fresh juice. But it's still juice.
Fruit drinks can apparently contain anything at all including colours, flavours, artificial sweeteners, mayonnaise, glue, and rusty old machine tools. I suspect there's a statutory limit on how little juice manufacturers can get away with. Whatever that limit is, any 'fruit drink' will be right on the line.
Cranberries are supposed to help with prostate cancer. Although that particular research was sponsored by the national cranberry association - or whatever the official title is - so it may be best to take it with a pinch of something sour or bitter.
Those fruit "drinks" made of juice and sugar and water and whatever are called "nectars" in France. When locusts move on, they leave nothing behind
LOL... The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it. Chinese Proverb.
bitter greens, like scarola. The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it. Chinese Proverb.
You take some cranberry juice and pour it in a tumbler full of ice. Then add a significant amt. of vodka. People don't understand that you need a lot, in order to cut through the strong taste of the juice. Top off with the juice of a 1/4 of a lime (or more or less, to your taste.) Drink. Then make another.
Variations include adding sugar (would only do this if you are using straight cranberry juice, and not cranberry juice cocktail, which is nasty junk anyway) or replacing the vodka with iced tea and adding mint.
Are cranberries a New World thing? I love the stuff but will admit it is an acquired taste. Oh, man, this is making me miss the Cape...
Oh, cranberries are said to prevent & treat urinary tract infections, which women are susceptible to as a result of our anatomy. (TMI, I know.) Ain't it grand being a girl? Come, my friends, 'Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
If you have to drink one when you're actually on the Cape, best mixed with flash boiled fresh corn and a vat or two of spicy clam chowder. Skennah Kowa
Oh, man. Now you've got me jonesing for a plate of scallops and fries and a cup of chowder... The thing abut living in the Midwest is the total absence of fresh shellfish. Im terribly allergic to the stuff, but manage to crave it anyway... Come, my friends, 'Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
Ummm... Our knowledge has surpassed our wisdom. --Charu Saxena.
"Ain't it grand being a girl"
Damn right. There's no down to being a girl that is lower than my highest high as a male. keep to the Fen Causeway
Two glasses a day (of at least 50% Cranberry juice) may prevent recurrent infection.
But cranberry juice is usually heavily sweetened and that is a lot of refined sugar to be downing on a daily basis...especially if you aren't even enjoying it!
I guess whether it's worth it depends on an individual woman's degree of susceptibility to these infections. Because it does vary.
On the other hand, though cranberries have the marketing behind them, blueberries also contain proanthocyanidins. You might find those more palatable?
When I'm well I'll go looking for something better. That's a good tip about blueberries, thanks. keep to the Fen Causeway
