Angela Beegle (aka chotii) ☕

[Angela Beegle (aka chotii) ☕ @chotiari]

This morning, I set a jar full of honey in a pan of water on simmer to decrystallize. And then I went and laid down and fell asleep and woke up to my daughter asking me if I knew why the house was full of smoke.

Anybody know how to get rid of the smell of burnt honey?

[Angela Beegle (aka chotii) ☕ @chotiari]

@IsaacHayes3 At the point where "race" cannot be differentiated from culture and behavior, yes, people may hate your race. But what they're really hating is the behavior and the culture that perpetuates that behavior.

"African-Americans" have a culture problem.

[Angela Beegle (aka chotii) ☕ @chotiari]

Actually, yes. One of my twins was born with multiple major heart defects. At 18 weeks pregnant, the high-risk OB advised me to have an abortion. I watched her talk herself into the position that my child had a genetic defect – all this without actually testing.

My kid is fine.

OK, yes she had surgery on her heart, she weighed 7 pounds at four months of age and was finally big enough to have surgery. She is now 26 years old and she never had a genetic defect. Just an unfortunate difference of development.

But I could've listened to the doctor, sure.

[Angela Beegle (aka chotii) ☕ @chotiari]

@St_Rev If I were a conspiracy theorist, I might hypothesize that the government allowed the riots in order to foster the spread of Covid - and other forms of harm and death - among the people who were rioting.

[Angela Beegle (aka chotii) ☕ @chotiari]

@AndrewLys3 @esrtweet Alrighty then,. If BLM *were* a Marxist terrorist organization, what would it do differently?

[Angela Beegle (aka chotii) ☕ @chotiari]

You could even demand that people treat you as a billionaire, and you probably attempt to present yourself to the world as a billionaire.

But you are not a billionaire and you don't know how to act like one. That's a simple fact. You probably have absolutely framework to conceptualize never worrying about bills, or being able to casually fly your private jet anywhere in the world at a moment's notice, or what it would be like to buy a Vicuña coat that costs $52,000 and donate it to a thrift store after one season.

Similarly, people around you would probably not want to treat you like a billionaire because *they know you're not*. They might attempt to do so out of courtesy or to not set you off, but they would never truly believe it

[Angela Beegle (aka chotii) ☕ @chotiari]

@St_Rev Good protein. Glad you finally got decent food.

[Angela Beegle (aka chotii) ☕ @chotiari]

@Bennieeexyz I'm pretty sure this is me and my whole family and sci fi conventions.

[Angela Beegle (aka chotii) ☕ @chotiari]

When I say my doctor, it wasn't just her. It appeared to be the entire medical system in the city where I lived at the time. I believe it was a policy within that medical organization, top down.

My GP would not prescribe. She sent me to the GYN. Who sent me to the G.I. specialist, who sent me to a liver specialist, who had to do this extensive and expensive special MRI on my liver to make sure I didn't have too much fat in it… All to be allowed to put something like a Band-Aid dot with estrogen on my tummy every week.

The process appeared designed to make me give up.

By that point in my life, simple ordinary sex had become traumatic due to atrophy. It wasn't anybody's fault. There was nothing my husband could've done better. Or different. I didn't want to live that way. And I didn't want him to have to live that way. So yes, I fought my way through the system. They seemed to be so worried that I might possibly get cancer, that they were just fine leaving me to live in hell.

Thank you for the offer of assistance, by the way.

[Angela Beegle (aka chotii) ☕ @chotiari]

I eventually fought my way through the system – it took years – and was finally granted access to HRT.

My trans identified children got access to hormones faster than I did....Like in a single appointment. At the time I joked bitterly that maybe I should identify as a trans woman so I could get estrogen.

And yes, the HRT helped me. It made me feel whole again. I haven't felt as complete since I was about 50.

Some women can't take it for medical reasons. Some doctors still refuse to give it. And by the way, menopause can also take away the ability to reach orgasm. So even mutual oral may not do anything for her. I'm telling you, it's hell.

I've been there and thank God I'm out of it now. But my doctor just expected me to live like that… From about the age of 50 onward, for the rest of my life.

[Angela Beegle (aka chotii) ☕ @chotiari]

Well, sometimes the solution is HRT, and sometimes the woman cannot take it. Or her doctor refuses to give it to her because of some sort of policy they won't explain.

Menopause basically breaks a woman's body. It needs estrogen to function properly, and menopause makes it go away.

Saying that a woman who is broken should be thrown away because she will not provide sex, and she doesn't provide it because it hurts like absolute fucking hell…

Does not make you the good guy.

[Angela Beegle (aka chotii) ☕ @chotiari]

@Broncocole06 @AlexaShrugged @McJuggerNuggets Yes. Yes they do. And sometimes people who do not have Downs have heart defects. My daughter was born with ASD, VSD and DORV.

She is 26. They did surgery on her when she weighed 7 lbs. She is fine.

(BTW some perfectly healthy babies are misdiagnosed and killed as a result)

[Angela Beegle (aka chotii) ☕ @chotiari]

@KING5Seattle I mean... if the can was sealed, this is *not* *possible*.

If the can was not sealed - rare but possible - and she took the lid off and ate from it anyway, half the responsibility falls on her. Consumers need to be aware if a canned product is not safely sealed and NOT EAT IT.

[Angela Beegle (aka chotii) ☕ @chotiari]

@MadeofMonsters Can you get, or can someone bring you some ice?

[Angela Beegle (aka chotii) ☕ @chotiari]

@jan_murray @anne_joseypye Is this supposed to be sexy? Because this is the opposite of sexy.

[Angela Beegle (aka chotii) ☕ @chotiari]

@SooperMexican @ksdotlewis I mean, I've seen multi-stack burgers that were probably that much meat.

[Angela Beegle (aka chotii) ☕ @chotiari]

@wil_da_beast630 I've seen obese, sloppy men with stringy hair and 10 o'clock shadow, wearing she/her pinbadges and expecting to be treated with kid gloves. Why should this jerk be in any different?

[Angela Beegle (aka chotii) ☕ @chotiari]

@wil_da_beast630 They don't have to. They don't have to make any effort at all. All they have to do is say is "I'm a woman", and people treat it like it's true. Because they're afraid of what will happen if they refuse.

[Angela Beegle (aka chotii) ☕ @chotiari]

Then why does a woman need the agreement of 3 men to make a legal claim of rape?

Not the rapists, mind you. 3 men who saw the attack and agree she was attacked against her will.

Is that Islam, or tribal custom? And how is anyone supposed to know the difference when they are so intertwined?

[Angela Beegle (aka chotii) ☕ @chotiari]

@atensnut Anyone who's ever driven a classic Mustang knew exactly what was going to happen.