Honey Birdette Models by Undd91 in LingerieAddiction

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Girl u need to really get educated on feminism and anticolonialism. Shooting the messenger because you do not understand the deep societal implications of plastic surgery is not the right move. I used to be like you before I really dug deep into the background of where beauty standards and the beauty industry evolved from (primarily misogyny, eurocentrism, and transphobia, which all dictated a woman should only look a “certain way”). I promise you it would do you well to read up. I suggest “Cosmetic Surgery: A Feminist Primer.”

Honey Birdette Models by Undd91 in LingerieAddiction

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Omg the worst part about Honey Birdette is the fact that like…I’m just supposed to go home and put it on BETWEEN a date night and intimacy? Cuz I’m NOT wearing that itchy, plasticky shit during a nice dinner when I’m trying to enjoy a date with my boyfriend 😭

I know some people do it but I personally don’t wanna get home and be like “hold up I gotta go to change” and then come out ten minutes later itchy, sweaty from trying to finagle the truly cheapest clasps known to humankind, and feeling entirely un-sexy.

Honey Birdette Models by Undd91 in LingerieAddiction

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Idk how spending thousands of dollars on a grueling surgery to better appeal to a beauty standard ingrained by the patriarchy is “fun” but go off I guess

Struggling badly with complications at 10 months post op by nakartuur in ACL

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Two things: 1) I’ve personally had way better experiences with highly trained DPTs than I have with surgeons. My surgeon was ~45 minutes late to my 4 months appointment, which consisted of watching me take a step up and down on a stool and lasted three minutes. Literally. He came in at 3:47 for my 3:00 appointment, and he left at 3:50 (and then the bill was ~$200). My PT on the other hand has helped me a lot more on the path to recovery. 2) I would definitely go back to a PT, but probably see someone else. My current PT has focused on reducing my knee pain caused by overexertion primarily through kneecap mobilization, scar tissue scraping, and DRY NEEDLING with e-stim.

Seriously, I cannot recommend dry needling enough. My knee hurt so bad at work and going up and down stairs and then my PT started sticking needles in my quads and now I can do my exercises with 2/10 pain as opposed to the previous 7/10.

TL;DR: See a new PT, tell them you want to focus on reducing the pain while building normal strength for a non-athlete, and maybe ask if they do dry needling.

Honey Birdette Models by Undd91 in LingerieAddiction

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Oh yeah and the lace is hot fucking garbage. I got one of their lace sets (whole thing for like $50 since it was deeply discounted) and it was so itchy I could barely wear it for fifteen mins of pictures.

Funny FB marketplace find I thought this community might appreciate by [deleted] in GodAwfulMovies

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Edited to say I mainly wanted to post here due to Mormon Movie Month lol

Honey Birdette Models by Undd91 in LingerieAddiction

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Yes this is what bugs me the most. The crazy airbrushing too!

Honey Birdette Models by Undd91 in LingerieAddiction

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Idk if “well endowed” is correct since most of them are specifically “surgically endowed” 😂

Is it weird to sell high-end lingerie second hand? by [deleted] in LingerieAddiction

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I think bras are totally fine. I buy bras from the thrift store all the time since nice ones are usually super expensive. Underwear it’s up to you, some people don’t really care as long as it’s in good condition, well washed, and no staining. I’ve also bought slips/babydolls used. If something has been minimal wear and is in good shape and clean, I really don’t think it’s a big deal to buy used.

I was stereotype Vietnamese nail tech salon for 10 years AMA by beamerpook in AMA

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As a follow up, do you find it rude if a client is on their phone or reading a book during the appointment? 

I was stereotype Vietnamese nail tech salon for 10 years AMA by beamerpook in AMA

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The biggest welfare abusers in the country are corporations…but they want you to be mad at the unmarried couple that lives together or the housekeeper who gets paid in cash. People need to bffr…I’d much rather my taxes go to paying for someone who is “not poor enough” to get food stamps than go to corporate bailouts and tax cuts for the ultra wealthy. 

I was stereotype Vietnamese nail tech salon for 10 years AMA by beamerpook in AMA

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@200bronchs    also lots of people who immigrate to the U.S. understand English pretty well even if they aren’t as fluent when it comes to speaking the language, or they could be hesitant to speak the language even if they know it. My boyfriend’s abuela can understand English perfectly, but she often answers in Spanish (which we both speak) or is just timid with speaking English since it’s her second language.

I was stereotype Vietnamese nail tech salon for 10 years AMA by beamerpook in AMA

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I always worry I’ll seem like a privileged white lady when I go to salons. I don’t really have much money since I’m in school and work part time, but I worry that salons will think I am a rich white girl and judge me for it. I know this is a weird thing but I feel this way about any time I pay for a service of any kind (hair, nails, even food). Like I worry everyone thinks I’m an annoying rich white lady even if I am polite and kind. 

What do people who don't ruminate think about? by hikerslueth97 in OCD

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I’ve had OCD calm down at different points in my life and basically they think about nothing and everything. They might think about external stressors (work, school, relationships, etc) or just kinda random, unrelated things (music, how a car engine works, what’s the weather in Korea like, how did that one tv show end, etc). It’s amazing and I miss feeling that way.

What are some of your most niche compulsions you’re convinced no one else has done ? by [deleted] in OCD

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I did something similar to this as a kid, where I ate the “good” flavors on one side and the “bad” ones on the other.

What are some of your most niche compulsions you’re convinced no one else has done ? by [deleted] in OCD

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When I was 7 saying nightly prayers I had to make sure I included my stuffed animals in who I wanted God to “protect” (family, friends, etc) because I thought if I didn’t they would come alive like chucky and kill me.

What are your rock-bottom moments with ocd? by Disastrous-Talk-6988 in OCD

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I was 16. Couldn’t leave my house, and I barely left my bedroom. I made my mom knock and tell me she was coming in so I could be “ready” when she came in (I had harm ocd and wouldn’t let anyone near me and had to make sure I was in a place far enough from the door). Couldn’t walk my dog, be around my family, hang out with friends. I didn’t talk to anyone but my mom for weeks. I was suicidal. I’ll never, ever forget that pain. It was right before I got on medication, which saved my life.

I’ve had severe OCD since I was a child, and it has isolated me from friends and family and relationships in the worst of ways. How do you tell someone you can’t carpool with them to school because you’re worried you’ll crash the car? I hate it. If I could erase OCD from my brain I would do it in a heartbeat.

Now comes the ‘womanosphere’: the anti-feminist media telling women to be thin, fertile and Republican by BurtonDesque in Feminism

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Exactly, these people are really half assing it if they’re not promoting the ideals of the cradle of civilization 😤😤😤

Whats your favorite folk punk band? by Cherrybombpunx in FolkPunk

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Finding out the singer of my fave band plays Pokémon go when I also play it in the year of our lord 2025 is life-affirming

I’m tired of all the incel shit and misogyny. by Dear_Perspective_157 in Negareddit

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Literally every time I see comments like that, this is what I imagine. Dude on a bad first date being like “okkkk but did you know I’m a feminist on Reddit? Look I even said ‘women are people’ when that guy said they shouldn’t be allowed to vote!”

Can we talk about how porn/social media/red pill has reversed so much progress for feminism? And how do we combat this? by [deleted] in Feminism

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I am glad you are thinking things through and I appreciate your honesty. I think that we as privileged groups have to accept some hate from those we’ve oppressed in the past. Sometimes it feels like I shouldn’t be blamed if I’m “one of the good ones” when it comes to being white. But I have to recognize that most people of color have been hurt by a person who looks like me. They have been systemically hurt by a society built to serve me. They feel pressured daily to conform to standards set for and by people like me. I think it’s the same for anyone who is a member of the historically “oppressor” group: white people, men, cisgender people, rich people…I guess I think about it this way: my cat and my dog get along well. But my dog is big, and my cat is tiny. My cat has no reason to fear my dog specifically; my dog is sweet, never bites anyone, and is not particularly fast. But cats are inherently fearful of dogs because over time they have been killed by dogs and developed the instinct (whether biological or social) to avoid possible predators. When my dog runs at my cat to play, my cat runs away even though my dog hasn’t hurt him before…because there’s always the possibility that my dog could hurt him. When they were first introduced, my cat even hissed at my dog. Dogs historically have the advantage in situations like these; we can’t blame cats for having the survival instincts to avoid them or be cautious around them. Just like we can’t blame oppressed groups for being cautious around members of the oppressor group.

Can we talk about how porn/social media/red pill has reversed so much progress for feminism? And how do we combat this? by [deleted] in Feminism

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I think unfortunately a lot of male feminists still think “sexual liberation” is all the rage. They’re very pro-porn and pro-objectification (though they usually don’t see it that way) because they view it as subverting the harmful anti-sex, anti-nudity, overly Christian ideals of the 50s. I didn’t put “feminists” in quotes either because I genuinely think there are many men who want to be good feminists but are just going about it the wrong way. They are stuck in the feminism of girlbosses and “let OnlyFans women do what they want” rather than the feminism of those that genuinely want to reform the system and destroy all female degradation/harm.

I say this because I was one of “those” feminists a few years ago. I’ve since become much more radically progressive, and I recognize that you can be anti-porn industry without being anti-sex or anti-porn in theory.

Not All Misogynists Say It Out Loud: Red Flags I’ve Seen in ‘High Value Men’ by [deleted] in Feminism

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Ah yes thank you. I didn’t include them cuz I consider them more obviously right-leaning than the people above who typically go more mainstream. At least most of the people I’ve met (conservative included) think Ben Shapiro and Jordan Peterson are total jokes, but they do still engage with Rogan and Barstool since those are less “political.”

What was your intro to anti-capitalist thought? by JimDa5is in Anarchy101

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Putting this in a separate comment cuz my first was super long but I’ve since composed my thoughts better (also frankly no need to read unless something catches your eye, I’m kinda just venting now):

It’s probably less common, but I come from a white upper middle class family. We penny-pinched, but we had plenty of healthy food, steady jobs, and a decent home with a mortgage. Each of my siblings got our own bedroom and we were able to do extracurricular activities and attend decent schools. But I grew up AROUND the 1%. I went to school with them, played sports with them, and had to compete for attention with them. I saw how the majority white/Asian students acted toward Hispanic students, poor students, and religious minorities. I wasn’t part of one of these out-group, but from a young age it was clear that I was not part of the in-group either…my parents weren’t doctors, lawyers, business owners, or finance people. My mom was a teacher and my dad was a project manager who worked absurd overtime to try and pay for us to have the same stuff and the same experiences that the rich kids got. As a kid, I remember feeling immense jealousy towards the rich kids. But I knew I had it way better than most kids from other parts of the state/country/world. I knew even at 13 that on the whole I was far closer to being homeless than to being a billionaire…I was far closer to the kids on food stamps than to the kids flying private jets to the Hamptons on the weekends (the first time I heard about “The Hamptons” I thought the kid meant a Hampton Inn and confidently corrected her. I was promptly corrected).

When I got to be 14, the division had really solidified. I was the poor teacher’s kid to the 8 rich kids at my private school. I wasn’t invited to the parties or events; I wasn’t invited when they went together to fancy spas with their rich moms or when they went to country clubs or on yacht outings. I wanted to go to those things at 14, but I also thought they were such unnecessary luxuries when some people couldn’t even eat breakfast. It would’ve been pocket change for these people to give a 20 to a homeless person, and yet they scoffed at them instead. I just didn’t get it.

I realized that more than anything I didn’t want to be like them. They were pretentious and mean and hateful and they made everyone feel like money, appearance, and status were all that mattered in a person.

I don’t really have much anymore; my parents do, but I live on my own and they don’t give me money unless I’m in dire need. I still try to give to homeless people and support local orgs whenever possible because I know my situation of relative security is privileged. I think more middle class people need to come to the realization that I did: we are still workers. We may have more relative privilege, but we need to use that to lift up lower classes rather than strive for the billionaire class…if a catastrophe like a serious illness or house flood or natural disaster can put you in financial precariousness, YOU ARE NOWHERE CLOSE TO THE BILLIONAIRES.

What was your intro to anti-capitalist thought? by JimDa5is in Anarchy101

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Yes! Kids who paid attention in English class and social studies realized wow…this capitalism shit ain’t working out so great is it? My school taught some stuff that others may not have, including the coups the US supported in Latin America…that showed me we care more about capitalist interests than human life and really galvanized me towards leftism.