He is a dick sometimes, but again, he isn’t wrong here. As grating as it is haha

Washington is similar in that you can vote in person but it’s still considered an all-mail voting state. Our voting centers wouldn’t be large enough to handle everyone voting in person. (Though hopefully we work to switch that up come midterms.)

I can’t speak to California, but I’d wager it still varies state to state a bit.

Washington is an all-mail voting state. Individuals who prefer to vote in person rather than by mail may do so at local voting centers, which are open for 18 days before the election. The voting period ends at 8:00 p.m. on Election Day. Contact your county elections department for more information on voting center locations and times.[

Ah it was with the recent Halsey album review “controversy”. He did refer to himself as such, but it was justified.

“I don’t have to prove my track record to Halsey,” he maintains. “I have been the most relevant and impactful music critic of my — and any — generation for over 10 years now. You can’t really debate that. There’s no music critic bigger than me who’s had more impact than me for as long as I have, consistently. And if I die tomorrow, nobody’s going to outdo that run.”

https://variety.com/2026/music/news/halsey-anthony-fantano-twitter-edgelord-youtube-the-great-impersonator-1236787577/

California, Colorado, Hawaii, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Vermont, and Washington

This is a little bit of a continuation of a discussion that originated in another community.

This is a produced television show. Nothing the actress is wearing is her choice in the show.

I will fight tooth and nail for anyone to choose how they present their body. I don’t care if people shave or don’t shave.

I do care about how the media presents women and the affect it has on how society expects women to look and behave.

Anthony Fantano - he’s a music critic and here is his youtube channel

I didn’t criticize their individual choice.

I am criticizing the media for only showing women as hairless.

Do I need to explain this again in different words for you to understand I’m not attacking the actresses’ personal choice?

Subsequent ad campaigns of the 1920s, ’30s and ’40s worked hard to rebrand armpit hair and leg hair as the enemy, pushing prepubescent bareness as the American ideal, along with toxic depilatory creams like “Sheer" (which contained mercury and bromine) and Koremlu, which contained a now-banned chemical — a rodenticide! — known to cause neuromuscular damage and blindness.

Those advertising campaigns paid off when silk and nylon shortages during World War II made stockings a luxury and bare legs a necessity. A widely-cited stat suggests that by 1964, a staggering 98% of American women were routinely shaving their legs. Today, the global market for hair removal products and services is a impressive $5.42 billion.

Though some feminists of the ’60s flaunted armpit and leg hair as a political statement, the demand for hairless bodies only grew more intense over time. In the 1980s and ’90s, the “the Brazilian,” an especially painful practice of using wax to remove some or all pubic hair, became popular. Millions got on board, including in Europe, where a 2018 Belgian study found that 80% of women reported removing at least some of their pubic hair. The increased pressure to be fuzz-free sometimes resulted in fierce reactions — ranging from shock and disgust to ridicule and mockery — for those who didn’t comply. (You may recall images of Julia Roberts lifting her arm to wave at fans at the 1999 “Notting Hill” premiere. The backlash was not cute.)

“Women often don’t realize how much friends, family and society weigh in on what we do with our body,” Breanne Fahs, a professor of women and gender studies at Arizona State University told CNN in a 2020 interview. “Often, what we think is a choice — as in ‘I choose to shave’ — has actually been…enforced upon us for generations.”

Here, some reading for you

I don’t agree with all of his takes, but that’s what makes some of his reviews so interesting. I also appreciate his willingness to change his opinion on a band or musician.

True that. East coasters are weird.

Hah, ah Fantano. Y’know, he wasn’t incorrect when he said he’s one of the most influential music reviewers of our time. But there’s no way to say that without sounding completely full of himself lol

I’m ngl, hearing a lone man whistling Vivaldi’s “Spring” in the middle of the night while alone would be kinda terrifying.

Ah it looks like the advice here is very similar to the other post.

“hey if you’re a man i’m gonna need you to never approach a woman who’s alone at night time. don’t care what your intention is - unless it’s an emergency, don’t. you probably have no idea what the jolt of terror and/or the gnawing dread feels like in these situations. thanks.”

Women being hairless is a manufactured media campaign. We are born with hair, we grow hair, hair on women is natural. The prevalence of showing women as hairless below our eyebrows is a deliberate choice and it is not simply down to individual preferences.

I’m not criticizing their performance or their individual choices.

I’m criticizing how the media wants to portray women as completely hairless all of the time.

Lactation kinks are pretty tame comparitively, but everyone’s different lol. There’s certainly some kinks I leave unexplored!

There’s a reason the Tree of Life is intertwined with the Goddess in Wicca.

I was curious about this, so I looked it up. It’s even cooler than I thought!

“It’s like going under the sea,” says Vigil, an OBGYN and a professor at Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. “You see all these little stars and seaweed-like appearances.”

But this field of fractals is no underwater scene. It’s a microscopic view of mucus from the human cervix. These shapes are created during a “fern test,” named after the distinct fern leaf structures present in cervical mucus around ovulation.

In addition to being beautiful, cervical mucus is functionally important. It lines the cervix, vagina, and vulva, creating a protective barrier between the body and the environment. The mucus also plays a major role in fostering healthy bacteria, protecting from pathogens, helping sperm reach the reproductive tract, and even signaling disease and pregnancy issues to clinicians.

“It’s a gatekeeper,” explains Katharina Ribbeck, a biochemist at MIT who studies all kinds of mucus, including cervical mucus. “It lets the right things in and [keeps] the wrong things out.”

I still believe there should be more representation in media of women with body hair.

We should normalize picking what’s best for each person individually and not trying to portray a certain way that women are “supposed” to look.

Funnily enough, I personally prefer body hair because it’s softer than stubble. But that’s my personal preference and not one I tell others that they should do just to please me. (not saying you are doing this, just putting thoughts to words).

Thanks for accepting it and I hope you have a good day, too!