Sunday, July 27, 2008

"1958 glass butt plug?"

This is a post to a message board on SteadyHealth.com. The title was, "1958 glass butt plug?"
I just found out that my 98 year old grandfather has been using a glass butt plug to help him have a bowl movement since 1958. Well his broke and he wants me to find him a new one. Has anyone ever heard of this or what I can do to help him? I have to admit it is very embarassing asking for help at the local pharmacy. They told me to go to the Porn Store. He is 98 and very set in his ways.
Can you imagine what kind of shape a 50 year old butt plug would be in? How did he break it? Hopefully there was no glass splintering into his sphincter. I wonder if he had a little velvet box that he kept it in or something creepy like that. Makes you wonder how many old people are wandering around wearing butt plugs this very moment... "Very set in his ways?" Don't seem like his bowels are (har har). Just for the record, no one has responded to this woman's post.

Monday, July 14, 2008

Stolen from Jezebel.com...

Walking While Female
Monica Gonzalez; a 40-year-old grandmother and resident of Brooklyn is fighting her arrest for prostitution last November. Gonzalez, who suffered an asthma attack earlier that day, was on her way to the hospital a few blocks from her house when cops stopped her and arrested her on charges of prostitution, claiming that she was carrying a condom and had previously been arrested for prostitution. Gonzalez had no prior history of arrest and says that she was not carrying a condom. But what does the officer who arrested her care? Women of color don't have medical issues that warrant late-night walks to emergency rooms!
Another shining example of the criminalization of poverty, womanhood, and POC-ness.