This is how I, a 45-year-old white woman and mother of 6, currently at her peak Karen power, went from assuming police work was a necessary part of functional communities, to becoming a passionate advocate for #abolishthepolice#defundthepolice, over the course of one week.
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@designmom I handed my OBGYN a list of symptoms that was essentially a checklist of peri menopause (no period for 6m, anxiety, hot flashes, weight gain..) and was told it’s stress.
Me:
So what is perimenopause?
Every search result:
It’s pure hell. It can start anytime during your 30s or 40s. It will last ten years or more. There may or may not be hot flashes. Don’t know what a hot flash is? Tough luck for you. End of information.
@Geeeoff The people who say this miss the point that it wasn’t actually ok to say it then. They fight against “cancel culture” as a way to disregard all consequences.
𝐩𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐜 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐞 — 𝑛𝑜𝑢𝑛 — a state of being in which you are employed and healthy during a pandemic but you're also tired and depressed and feel like trash all the time