On Last Week on HPV's Girls
@wallsdonotfall @teenie yes, hooray internet comments that are civil! I definitely think I was too dismissive with my "Amish/weird" remark. I was mainly offended at what I perceived as a patronizing tone that the show would treat something that's so common and just downright normal with such mysticism and misinformation. But I think we should all just order tacos and watch some videos of dogs playing with babies now. It is time for that part of the day.
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On Last Week on HPV's Girls
@wallsdonotfall I wasn't being offended about the discussion of HPV because "God, we've all heard this before". I was just saying that from my point of view, it's unrealistic. I'm not trying to be dismissive, I just honestly didn't know until this very Hairpin discussion that there were so many women in their late 20s who hadn't had a personal experience with HPV. This is honest ignorance I'm admitting to, not rampant meanness.
And please don't project some image of me being some anti-sex ed lady onto my comments. I just seriously have talked about this so often with so many people of such differing sexual backgrounds I was earnestly surprised to see people beyond their mid-20s still discovering this. But if it's the case that most women of that age still don't know the ins and outs of HPV then I guess the depiction on the show was accurate, if unhelpful.
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On Last Week on HPV's Girls
@ImASadGiraffe In my experience, you always get a biopsy after a positive result. And then they check every 6 months to make sure it goes away on its own. They don't take anything out unless they actually find something, and then that's a seperate procedure. They USED to snip off a pinch of skin back in the day - but I had one just a few months ago and my dr used a new technique that just involved rubbing some skin cells off using a mascara-wand type thing. Didn't hurt at all.
I've had 2 biopsies and nothing ever came back significant. It just comes with the territory of being a lady. Like constant UTIs and menstrual cramps, I think.
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On Last Week on HPV's Girls
I don't watch Girls. But if they seriously treated it that way I'm disappointed. Not because I expect everything on TV to be factual, but because aren't the characters on that show supposed to be 24-ish? I'm sorry, but the ins and outs of the HPV minefield have been thoroughly explored by the time you're out of college unless you are Amish or weird. By the time I was 22 like all my friends had had cervical biopsies. Basically if you've had sex with more than one person, or have had sex with someone who's had sex with more than one person, you probably have it/had it/heard about it. So it's not exactly a rare thing.
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On Friday Bargain Bin: What to Do With Your Allowance This Week
I have a potion-bottle necklace and I am disappointed with how rarely I find outfits to wear it with. Mine was from ModCloth and I can't even think of anything useful to put in it. (I don't want to put perfume in it bc omg what if it broke and spilled a whole bottle of perfume on your body in like the middle of the day or something??)
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On Half Day
I'm also wrapping up things early today. Is your personal thing also "going to bar early to unofficially try and reserve tables for official office happy hour"??? If so see you there and also stay away from my tables they are mine.
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On GTFO, Prom
I remember my parents setting a firm $150 max on the dress, which I remember it not being hard to edge up against. But of course this was pre-Laguna Beach when fashionable people still wore big ball gowns to prom.
There's dinner, but the boy pays for that. Hair, that'll run you a good $75-$100. Flowers, maybe $35?
So that's $350 just about at most?
I assume this crazy amount is brought on by everyone these days getting limos and hotel rooms like in the movies. Is it me or is high school becoming more and more like the movies?
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On Bridal Beauty: Five Things to Do to Your Face
I only recently discovered fake eyelashes/nails/tans and the joy of it has turned me super-femme at the ripe old age of 26. Go all three!
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On Apropos of Nada
Great read!
Carolita - are you the same lady who wrote awhile back about having bought an old-school giant laptop to type this boyfriend's book on? I remember liking that story, too, and I refuse to believe there was more than one graduate student typing her jerk boyfriend's book in Paris in the 90s. Refuse.