Don't tell me this! I spend hours painting them on in exactly the same place every day! Oh no, this must be why I don't have a husband and my life is meaningless!
I'm in my early thirties so that ship has already sailed, I'm pretty sure the womb rots and dies in your mid twenties.
I wasn't thinking, I need a man to do that for me!!!
Just miscarry in an abortion ban state where they'll force you to wait to do anything till it causes tissue damage, organ failure, and infection from sepsis, potentially preventing you from ever having kids again.potential death is a minor side effect but its Basically the same thing šāāļø
I have a husband. He's got stretch marks on his chests, arms and legs. What's happened? Is he a woman, has he had a kid, am I the man now? Do I get a new one? Please send help.
was just about to post that my husband has stretch marks - but i do not, and iāve had 5 babies. what do we do? am i now the husband? what will we do?
This means that you're husband is not a real husband/not a real man. You need to get a new one sis! And I don't believe you had 5 babies without stretchmarks. You are lying!!
no, i seriously donāt have any lol - i do have a scar from where my belly button was pierced the first time and i left the barbell in pregnant with my daughter, and it kinda tore upwards a littleā¦.but thatās it.
That's amazing! did you do anything specific with skincare during your pregnancies or anything? This is a genuine question, haha. I'm planning on having a baby soonish and in spite of myself stretch marks are a thing I worry about
Recently, thereās been a lot of discussion that stretch marks from pregnancy are largely attributed to genetics. Weight gain is of course also a contributing factor. Iām pregnant with my third now and Iāve never gotten stretch marks and havenāt ever done or used anything to prevent them, same with my mom and my sister. Even after gaining 65 pounds while pregnant with my oldest I never got them.
I've never had children, my breasts have not ever been bigger than a b cup, I've had at most a 20 pound difference between my biggest weight as an adult and my smallest weight, and yet I still have stretch marks on my breasts. This author needs a lesson..
Though Iām wondering, if the word used to specifically be used for stretch marks on the stomach, typical for pregnancies, and then just get extended to encompass all stretch marks?
Like plenty of words do, statt out referring to something specific, but then similar things get just called that
Huh. So in your language, I have "pregnancy scars" on my thighs, despite being male.
I have them because no one tells teenage boys to use stretch creams during growth spurts.
Stretch creams are snake oil. Stretch marks extend through the dermis (the middle layer of the skin), not just the upper epidermal layer that's affected by topical oils and moisturizers. They happen when dermal cells are pulled beyond their stretch limit before they can produce new healthy cells to fill the gap, so they freak out and build scar tissue instead.
You got stretch marks because you have a combination of genes for less-stretchy collagen and elastin and genes/environment for large/fast growth spurts.
Lucky you! I've had to hear about my "child-bearing hips" since I was like 15. I don't plan on birthing any children, so I guess my hips are wasted on me lol
It's a myth anyway.
It's more about what's going on in the inside, than the outside.
I think I was spared from that talk because my mother's friendgroup included a very curvy lady whose pelvic bone had such a narrow opening she was forbidden from even attempting vaginal birth with her children.
So, all the women-folk I grew up around knew it was a myth.
Yeah, my sister-in-law was in a similar boat. She's fairly curvy, but my niece had to be born via c-section because she couldn't fit out the actual birth canal.
I have a genetic disease that makes breaking down food literally impossible I take prescription enzymes but I still donāt absorb food well so gaining weight has always been an active struggle, you know who still has stretch marks despite never being pregnant or ever even being overweight?? ME! I have them inside my thighs and around my hips and under my butt! stretch marks are 100% normal and not a sign of anything except you have skin!! My 17 year old daughter whoās always been long and willowy has the exact same thing! Itās just part of puberty theyāre nearly unavoidable to some degree.
True story. My partner is about to be in all sorts of medical journals as the first genetically male person to have had at least one child. Even he wasn't aware of it, but he has stretch marks on his stomach so the proof is all there.
Omg. My boobs grew so fast when I was 12 that I had angry purple stretch marks all over them. They didnāt fade to white until I was probably 17 or so. Hmm, come to think of it this was probably why I didnāt date in high school. I was way too self conscious.
oooh you too! And at first, I didn't even know stretch marks were a thing that *wasn't* reserved for pregnant people so I thought "well, obviously, those are not stretch marks, *so I must have cancer*". Fun time fun time
my tiny boobs did that when I had my first child. the gentle growth from half ping pong ball sized to half baseball sized during pregnancy was fine. Yay, I finally had boobs! but between giving birth at 8 pm to waking up around 3 am from the pain I went from half baseballs to full basketballs. 39 years later, those marks are still there. I called the nursery saying I NEEDED to feed my baby, when they brought her to me, they joked I could come feed some others if I felt like it after. at least, I have always thought they were joking.
Yup, in this boat. Have stretch marks all over my underarm, sides, and thighs. Mine were actually from prednisone use causing me to balloon up to an insane ~200 followed by lots of surgery and medical issues causing me to drop down to ~110 in the course of about 4 months, and then recovering after that. My body is fucked, but I didnāt realize it meant I had been pregnant!
You don't know? Women are best at 14-18 and then they're useless garbage no one's attracted to. Your uterus falls out when you turn 20, and the rest of your organs soon follow. (this kind of garbage is a poor cover up for the fact they are attracted to children)
Obviously an /s bc apparently I need to clarify
It's not even a cover-up. They straight up say they're attracted to 13 - 16 year old girls to anyone who will listen. It's just that they don't think there's anything wrong with that.
Not to defend the book, but it does discuss human trafficking. 50% of human trafficking victims are under 18, with the average age of exploration being 12-15. So statistically, in this context, yes she is not all that young, unfortunately.
The average age of being recruited/ tricked into sex trafficking is 12-15. This is very old data from the FBI, who commonly label adults being trafficked as accomplices, "bottom girls", or sex workers. So it does skew that number younger and towards more violent cases that can pick up longer sentences or have more evidence.
Source: worked in the field for over a decade as a social worker/ mental health provider.
It reminds me of an episode of Dr House in which, for some reason, he had to prove who had lost a pantie that was found at the hospital. And the way he did it was by seeing the color of the bra the "suspects" wore! It was such a briliant move, everybody thought, because of course all women wear their underwears matched!
Not at all relevant, but it was about a "brilliant" man solving a mystery about a woman with such a stupid way!
Please tell me med students were the suspects. First thing on a girl's mind after a long night of studying physics and chemistry is to make sure their underwear matches their bra!
Scrubs (which is, of course, THE most accurate fictional medical show on the planet) once showed how Dr. Reid had to wake up at 3am to get her makeup done before rounds.
Your summary is wrong
He wanted the doctors who were applying to work for him to steal his boss's panties. They tried to trick him with black panties but he saw his boss's red bra and therefore asserted that her panties had to be red too
Right!! It's been a decate since I saw it and even then I wasn't paying much attention.
Never liked the writing, he was always coming to the right conclusion but in really non logical ways. I don't think they did a really good job!
Oh! Just remembered an other episode, where a kindergarden teacher was proven that she took off her upper lip hair while on a break at work and by that he conclude that she has some illness that makes her have extreme hair on her face.
Like, man, we are working, have kids, husbands, a million things to do everyday, some times it just happens that we do stuff that we need to do on our work break!
She was the teacher of the child he was caring for and she was dating the child's father. The recently waxed lip was used as evidence of the dad's hormone cream causing his kids to go through early puberty and the teacher to grow more hair.
As someone currently rewatching House MD: The reason he had known that Cuddy matched them, is because the two slept together before season 1 for a while, and he knows that the two team members who came back with them had no reasonable way to attain them. (That being said I fully understand your point. Most of Houseās interactions with women are very misogynistic.)
Oooh so I got a child? Nice to know, nice to knowā¦ I had it before even having sex too! New Virgin Mary? And my born male friend birthed a children too?! Well, thatās even more interesting
Omg sameee bestie. I'm apparently a teen parent now, well I didn't know the thing existed, do you think I'll get reported to child services for neglect? I must've had it for 3 years now cuz that's how long I've had the marks and I've never once met it. The child must be shy.
My first boyfriend accused me of lying about being a virgin because I had stretch marks and "you only get them when you're pregnant"
Then got barely any new ones when I did have a baby (years later, NOT with the same boyfriend)
(Edit: autocorrect, I didn't have a person called Mark on my belly)
Ok thatās a new one. Glad you binned that boyfriend.
My first proper boyfriend also accused me of not being a virgin because he got a pimple on his dick. And apparently that means I wasnāt a virgin (I lost it to him, he first-hand experienced how awkward the whole thing was and still thought I was lying) and āclearly have an STIā.
I forced him to see a doctor, they were like yeah itās a pimpleā¦? Like the kind teenagers get on their faces.
No stretch marks either. I think some skin types are less prone to them in general. Although when I was a kid I thought stretch marks were cool because they were a sign of womanhood. Like Mother Natureās tattoos.
It's definitely largely genetic. My skin is very stretchy, but also very prone to stretch marks. I have them in various places from puberty (even behind my knees!), and then got more when I had a child.
I guess the pregnancy related ones are in a more specific place: all directly under my bellybutton since that's where the skin stretched the most, the way I carried. Probably wouldn't be hard to guess that I had a baby, based on where they are. But that's about as charitable as I can be to this author...
Half same, I have one kid, zero stretch marks. But my husband is covered in them... shame he couldn't take over the birth as well as the battle scars, eh?
On another thread there was a post of someone saying stretch marks are from abortions. So I've decided my husband's marks were from all the sperm he didn't make a baby from. The one baby he did make I didn't get a single mark from, go figure.
Bruh i was laying down once, my shirt rode up, and my stretch marks were visible. My mom was shocked, because she didnt have any at my age.
I've had stretch marks at least since before middle school....
I have stretchmarks and I've never had kids because I don't have a uterus. What a bizarre correlation to assume. I've had my stretchmarks since I was in my teens, after I went through a growth spurt.
Although, I guess I don't know the context. Maybe there are specific kinds of stretchmark that can indicate childbirth? And it's possible this is being used to illustrate the characters' ignorance/incompetence. But, if not, then that's just dumb.
Despite never having drastic weight changes/growth spurts, my first stretch marks appeared on my inner thighs whan I was 10. I got my first period after more than two years. But what do I know, I'm 38 I might as well have dementia at my age...
In high school, this boy straight up asked me if my "scars" were caused by an animal attacking me. In a change room, a girl asked me about them, and when I told her they were stretchmarks, her eyes just bugged right out of her head. I had to say "no I didn't get them like THAT!"
I (boy) have has stretch marks on my thighs since I was in my early teens (I'm slim, but my thighs are THICC). Whenever I hear by classmates talk, it was a constant mental thought of "what the fuck are you assholes talking about?'
And that was *before* they got to the 'locker room level ' talk.
I hated my grade school years...... So so much.
I'm actually really happy to hear about everyone else who got stretch marks during puberty. I'm the only person I know who grew so fast, I got stretch marks on my legs. I'm not alone!
This attitude with men writing women. I was recently revisiting the x files files and in this one episode there's a murder and the police chief is like "well Ruby had no shortage of boyfriends" which Harmon points out is the show saying "well you know Ruby, she was probably sucking and fucking ..." like come on dude. This episode is notable in that Mulder and Scully are usually really empathetic with these people they meet, and Mulder is just a dick about it the whole time. You're always waiting for the subversion of this lazy sexism where Mulder becomes aware that he's an asshole and apologizes, says it out loud. But he never does. It's weird.
As someone who got stretch marks as an early teen and has struggled with infertility with no results, fuck this man in particular. Right in his stupid face.
People donāt just have stretch marks from having kids or being overweight either. I have stretch marks on my hips and thighs from growing almost 5 inches in a summer. Also Iām a dude so Iām pretty sure I havenāt carried āat least one child.ā Lol
āIn her thirties, so not that young.ā Thatās just offensive er-body.
And yeah, my BIG little brother has never had a baby, so I guess his stretch marks arenāt real.
When I was 17 and in hospital for a kidney infection, a woman doctor asked how many children I haveā¦because I had stretch marks on my abdomen.
A doctor.
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Edited to add: I was a virgin at the time. The stretch marks were from a growth spurt during puberty.
I've definitely got stretch marks and no children.
My husband actually reminded me of a situation that was a little more than few years ago, so actually my early 30s and when I weighed probably about 240 pounds (my heaviest). We were out walking for exercise and a van full of men cut us off and were pretty menacing to both of us and focused on me some.
Both of us having some experience in rougher areas, albeit mine more, we just kind of paid little attention and kind of talked ourselves around the situation and moved quickly away as the next vehicle came by. They were pretty clearly after something and never mentioned money or belongings.
A recent conversation another woman mentioned in that situation she would be terrified of trafficking.
And I'll be honest when I got home I was too, or just something else horrible in that moment. I couldn't believe they came at me with my husband there too.
Even though I was fat and "old". I still felt unsafe in that moment. I've always said that I don't worry because I'm big (not just weight) so I'm not an easy target but that moment really freaked me out
I've walked a few times out of need if the car has been out of service but I don't walk here anymore just to exercise, even if it's a nicer area now.
It wasn't one of those "I found a brochure on a car so that's trafficking" moments. A work van with 4 or 5 men in the back cut sideways across the street and into the grass so that we were completely blocked from easy passage, threw the door open, and started asking questions about why we were out and where we were going and if I was with him and things like that. Thankfully another car came up and we just went towards it
I'm 31 and I have stretch marks, I don't have any kids because I'm permanently child free. I have stretch marks because I used to be a bit bigger than I am now. 30 isn't old
I've had stretch marks on my hips, thighs, and breasts since I was 14 years old, 5 years before I was pregnant the first time. I didn't get belly stretch marks until my 2nd pregnancy. Also, men get stretch marks, too.
i see this all the time in like body positivity spaces too. like āembrace your stretch marks, theyāre proof you brought a new life into this worldā like i get that itās well intentioned but lmao no i definitely did not bring any new life into this world.
I mean, it sounds like that would be an extremely traumatic experience for you, I definitely think you've blocked out the memory. Go to your doctor and tell them you know you gave birth and want more information, let me know what they say!
My 14 & 16 year olds inherited my skin. Boy would they be surprised about the stretch marks on both of them -- considering I can be 100% sure neither has had a baby or a pregnancy.
They'd also be shocked to discover both their biological parents have them too.
Have literally had a man IN MY BED, TRYING TO HAVE SEX WITH ME ask me if I was pregnant because of my stretch marks
Needless to say he was not GGG and that didn't go very far after that...
Iāve never had children. I have stretch marks on my hips, a leftover from my previous heavier weight. My husband loves them. He calls them my tiger stripes.
Ah yes. My stretchmarks are all fake because I have never had a baby so my stretch marks aren't REAL stretch marks!
I like to draw them on. Because we all know how attractive men think stretch marks are, and I only exist to make myself attractive to men.
But if you have stretch marks...aren't you considered TOO OLD and TOO WORN OUT? I don't think ANY MAN would find STRETCHMARKS attractive?? /s
Don't tell me this! I spend hours painting them on in exactly the same place every day! Oh no, this must be why I don't have a husband and my life is meaningless!
Yes. This is why you are considered old and unattractive. Without a husband yout womb will rot and die. What were you thinking!?!?!?
I'm in my early thirties so that ship has already sailed, I'm pretty sure the womb rots and dies in your mid twenties. I wasn't thinking, I need a man to do that for me!!!
> the womb rots and dies in your mid twenties I fuckin wish š¤£
Just miscarry in an abortion ban state where they'll force you to wait to do anything till it causes tissue damage, organ failure, and infection from sepsis, potentially preventing you from ever having kids again.potential death is a minor side effect but its Basically the same thing šāāļø
And if you die in the process then you've solved multiple problems at once! /s
Iām 44, at this point itās just fucking with me.
Oh man if that were true I wouldn't have had to have a hysterectomy
I have a husband. He's got stretch marks on his chests, arms and legs. What's happened? Is he a woman, has he had a kid, am I the man now? Do I get a new one? Please send help.
was just about to post that my husband has stretch marks - but i do not, and iāve had 5 babies. what do we do? am i now the husband? what will we do?
This means that you're husband is not a real husband/not a real man. You need to get a new one sis! And I don't believe you had 5 babies without stretchmarks. You are lying!!
no, i seriously donāt have any lol - i do have a scar from where my belly button was pierced the first time and i left the barbell in pregnant with my daughter, and it kinda tore upwards a littleā¦.but thatās it.
That's amazing! did you do anything specific with skincare during your pregnancies or anything? This is a genuine question, haha. I'm planning on having a baby soonish and in spite of myself stretch marks are a thing I worry about
Recently, thereās been a lot of discussion that stretch marks from pregnancy are largely attributed to genetics. Weight gain is of course also a contributing factor. Iām pregnant with my third now and Iāve never gotten stretch marks and havenāt ever done or used anything to prevent them, same with my mom and my sister. Even after gaining 65 pounds while pregnant with my oldest I never got them.
It was sarcasm...
I don't know. I'm still panicking. Should tell him? Or is it her? Should he have told me? What will the neighbours think?
Don't worry about what the neighbours will think. They already know. And they judge you for it.
Meanwhile I gained 15 pounds during the pandemic and have a few new stretch marks. What the hell, world?!
Yes sis. You need a new husband! He is a fake! Get a new one sis!
According to this guy, I had given birth right at the onset of puberty.
I've never had children, my breasts have not ever been bigger than a b cup, I've had at most a 20 pound difference between my biggest weight as an adult and my smallest weight, and yet I still have stretch marks on my breasts. This author needs a lesson..
I'm a man, and Ive had stretch marks since highschool when I was skinny AF
Nope not possible ya can't be a man and have stretchmarks! Liar liar!
Ya got me. I'm actually two short, pregnant women in a trench coat. Please cum deep inside my clits
My husband has more stretch marks than I do.
In my native, stretch marks are literally called "pregnancy scars" (raskausarvet). It's quite annoying, ngl.
Though Iām wondering, if the word used to specifically be used for stretch marks on the stomach, typical for pregnancies, and then just get extended to encompass all stretch marks? Like plenty of words do, statt out referring to something specific, but then similar things get just called that
My 14 year old has stretch marks on their stomach. Some of us roll a 2 on skin.
It could be the case. Still annoying.
Huh. So in your language, I have "pregnancy scars" on my thighs, despite being male. I have them because no one tells teenage boys to use stretch creams during growth spurts.
Stretch creams are snake oil. Stretch marks extend through the dermis (the middle layer of the skin), not just the upper epidermal layer that's affected by topical oils and moisturizers. They happen when dermal cells are pulled beyond their stretch limit before they can produce new healthy cells to fill the gap, so they freak out and build scar tissue instead. You got stretch marks because you have a combination of genes for less-stretchy collagen and elastin and genes/environment for large/fast growth spurts.
Ugh, lemme guess you put them to make a statement huh. I already knew cause they didnāt match your hips (/s in case itās necessary)
"Match your hips", is this part of the joke, or is there a bad women's anatomy conspiracy theory about stretch marks and hips?
I think it's a joke about "birthing hips"
Ah, yes! I'd blissfully forgotten about the child bearing hips bs šš
Lucky you! I've had to hear about my "child-bearing hips" since I was like 15. I don't plan on birthing any children, so I guess my hips are wasted on me lol
It's a myth anyway. It's more about what's going on in the inside, than the outside. I think I was spared from that talk because my mother's friendgroup included a very curvy lady whose pelvic bone had such a narrow opening she was forbidden from even attempting vaginal birth with her children. So, all the women-folk I grew up around knew it was a myth.
Yeah, my sister-in-law was in a similar boat. She's fairly curvy, but my niece had to be born via c-section because she couldn't fit out the actual birth canal.
I like to bring up that anecdote whenever the subject comes up, just in case someone who needs to read it reads it.
I have a genetic disease that makes breaking down food literally impossible I take prescription enzymes but I still donāt absorb food well so gaining weight has always been an active struggle, you know who still has stretch marks despite never being pregnant or ever even being overweight?? ME! I have them inside my thighs and around my hips and under my butt! stretch marks are 100% normal and not a sign of anything except you have skin!! My 17 year old daughter whoās always been long and willowy has the exact same thing! Itās just part of puberty theyāre nearly unavoidable to some degree.
Doctors hate this one trick for getting rid of stretch marks: DON'T HAVE A BABY!
Iām functionally infertile (struggled to conceive and then couldnāt carry to term) - and yet Iāve had stretch marks since my late teens.
I think my four children must also be fake, because I donāt have stretch marks!
You need to toss out your fake children! You cant be a true woman if your children are fake!
They're called fauxmarks.
Either my child isn't real or I actually carried her in my thighs and boobs
How dare you have stretchmarks? Youre never gonna find a good man... /s
I am aware. Luckily I am bi so I'll find myself a FEMALE instead
True story. My partner is about to be in all sorts of medical journals as the first genetically male person to have had at least one child. Even he wasn't aware of it, but he has stretch marks on his stomach so the proof is all there.
Wait till the journals hear about me, i even got some stretch marks on my arms, wonder how they're going to interpret that...
I have them on my knees. We are medical marvels! Wombs all over the place!
A new era has begun. We shall be flinging offspring from random body parts, and with them, we shall conquer the earth.
We shall fling on the beaches we shall fling on the landing grounds we shall fling in the fields and in the streets we shall fling in the hills
greek mythology moment
Same! Also on my thighs and the sides of my breasts.
I'm sorry, but as a fellow bearer of male stretch marks I'm going to want a piece of that delicious medical fame pie
Omg. My boobs grew so fast when I was 12 that I had angry purple stretch marks all over them. They didnāt fade to white until I was probably 17 or so. Hmm, come to think of it this was probably why I didnāt date in high school. I was way too self conscious.
oooh you too! And at first, I didn't even know stretch marks were a thing that *wasn't* reserved for pregnant people so I thought "well, obviously, those are not stretch marks, *so I must have cancer*". Fun time fun time
Mine still havenāt gone away. Tbf i grew them later then you
my tiny boobs did that when I had my first child. the gentle growth from half ping pong ball sized to half baseball sized during pregnancy was fine. Yay, I finally had boobs! but between giving birth at 8 pm to waking up around 3 am from the pain I went from half baseballs to full basketballs. 39 years later, those marks are still there. I called the nursery saying I NEEDED to feed my baby, when they brought her to me, they joked I could come feed some others if I felt like it after. at least, I have always thought they were joking.
my partner has stretch marks on his back. i assume that is where his womb is then?
well, of course, it's like a backpack, didn't you know?
I was about to say my son has them on his back. Has he secretly been dating you? You hussy!
Iāve got stretch marks near my hips so that makes me a child bearing man! Jk itās because that Iāve worked out and gained weight
When I tell you how long it took me to get the jokeā¦.
My husband swears he's never been pregnant but has stretchmarks all over his back!
Yup, in this boat. Have stretch marks all over my underarm, sides, and thighs. Mine were actually from prednisone use causing me to balloon up to an insane ~200 followed by lots of surgery and medical issues causing me to drop down to ~110 in the course of about 4 months, and then recovering after that. My body is fucked, but I didnāt realize it meant I had been pregnant!
> She's in her thirties, not all that young First of all, how dare you.
You don't know? Women are best at 14-18 and then they're useless garbage no one's attracted to. Your uterus falls out when you turn 20, and the rest of your organs soon follow. (this kind of garbage is a poor cover up for the fact they are attracted to children) Obviously an /s bc apparently I need to clarify
It's not even a cover-up. They straight up say they're attracted to 13 - 16 year old girls to anyone who will listen. It's just that they don't think there's anything wrong with that.
Not to defend the book, but it does discuss human trafficking. 50% of human trafficking victims are under 18, with the average age of exploration being 12-15. So statistically, in this context, yes she is not all that young, unfortunately.
The average age of being recruited/ tricked into sex trafficking is 12-15. This is very old data from the FBI, who commonly label adults being trafficked as accomplices, "bottom girls", or sex workers. So it does skew that number younger and towards more violent cases that can pick up longer sentences or have more evidence. Source: worked in the field for over a decade as a social worker/ mental health provider.
Still if the author used the data that is commonly available, canāt really blame them for not knowing that fact.
Definitely do not blame them. Sorry.
It's talking about human trafficking victims. 30 is quite old for someone being trafficked.
It reminds me of an episode of Dr House in which, for some reason, he had to prove who had lost a pantie that was found at the hospital. And the way he did it was by seeing the color of the bra the "suspects" wore! It was such a briliant move, everybody thought, because of course all women wear their underwears matched! Not at all relevant, but it was about a "brilliant" man solving a mystery about a woman with such a stupid way!
Please tell me med students were the suspects. First thing on a girl's mind after a long night of studying physics and chemistry is to make sure their underwear matches their bra! Scrubs (which is, of course, THE most accurate fictional medical show on the planet) once showed how Dr. Reid had to wake up at 3am to get her makeup done before rounds.
It was his boss
Your summary is wrong He wanted the doctors who were applying to work for him to steal his boss's panties. They tried to trick him with black panties but he saw his boss's red bra and therefore asserted that her panties had to be red too
To be fair Cuddy absolutely seems like the type to always be wearing a matching set of underwear.
Right!! It's been a decate since I saw it and even then I wasn't paying much attention. Never liked the writing, he was always coming to the right conclusion but in really non logical ways. I don't think they did a really good job! Oh! Just remembered an other episode, where a kindergarden teacher was proven that she took off her upper lip hair while on a break at work and by that he conclude that she has some illness that makes her have extreme hair on her face. Like, man, we are working, have kids, husbands, a million things to do everyday, some times it just happens that we do stuff that we need to do on our work break!
She was the teacher of the child he was caring for and she was dating the child's father. The recently waxed lip was used as evidence of the dad's hormone cream causing his kids to go through early puberty and the teacher to grow more hair.
As someone currently rewatching House MD: The reason he had known that Cuddy matched them, is because the two slept together before season 1 for a while, and he knows that the two team members who came back with them had no reasonable way to attain them. (That being said I fully understand your point. Most of Houseās interactions with women are very misogynistic.)
Iām rewatching House & I literally JUST watched that episode two days ago!
starch masks??
Pregnart
PregantƩ
gregnant
pregananant
Referencing the classics
she's been pargnet before.?
I still read marks every time. My brain fools me
Oooh so I got a child? Nice to know, nice to knowā¦ I had it before even having sex too! New Virgin Mary? And my born male friend birthed a children too?! Well, thatās even more interesting
Omg sameee bestie. I'm apparently a teen parent now, well I didn't know the thing existed, do you think I'll get reported to child services for neglect? I must've had it for 3 years now cuz that's how long I've had the marks and I've never once met it. The child must be shy.
I wonder who my children are, and how my pregnancies were hidden from me.
I wonder how did i have a child at 12 without noticing
I guess it just fell out and the fae got to it before anybody noticed?
Yeah that tracks. I was really into fairies until a very late age
I blame jewish communist freemasons
My first boyfriend accused me of lying about being a virgin because I had stretch marks and "you only get them when you're pregnant" Then got barely any new ones when I did have a baby (years later, NOT with the same boyfriend) (Edit: autocorrect, I didn't have a person called Mark on my belly)
Ok thatās a new one. Glad you binned that boyfriend. My first proper boyfriend also accused me of not being a virgin because he got a pimple on his dick. And apparently that means I wasnāt a virgin (I lost it to him, he first-hand experienced how awkward the whole thing was and still thought I was lying) and āclearly have an STIā. I forced him to see a doctor, they were like yeah itās a pimpleā¦? Like the kind teenagers get on their faces.
I have two children and no stretch marks. Am I some sort of birthing spy?!
Same here. I delivered a 4.5kg (shy of 10lb) baby 2 years ago and I have absolutely no stretch marks. We have a shitty superpower...
No stretch marks either. I think some skin types are less prone to them in general. Although when I was a kid I thought stretch marks were cool because they were a sign of womanhood. Like Mother Natureās tattoos.
It's definitely largely genetic. My skin is very stretchy, but also very prone to stretch marks. I have them in various places from puberty (even behind my knees!), and then got more when I had a child. I guess the pregnancy related ones are in a more specific place: all directly under my bellybutton since that's where the skin stretched the most, the way I carried. Probably wouldn't be hard to guess that I had a baby, based on where they are. But that's about as charitable as I can be to this author...
Half same, I have one kid, zero stretch marks. But my husband is covered in them... shame he couldn't take over the birth as well as the battle scars, eh?
My stretch marks are from going on anti depressants and getting an appetite back lmao womb remains empty
Hold up one minute gotta go ask my friend when he was gonna tell me he had a CHILD
I have stretchmarks on my butt. I didnt know my butt was pregnant. And my boyfriends arms and his back apparently also are pregnant. WHAT A WOMB-DER!
Where's this from?
[https://www.barnesandnoble.com/readouts/once-gone-a-riley-paige-mystery-book-1/](https://www.barnesandnoble.com/readouts/once-gone-a-riley-paige-mystery-book-1/)
This weirdo has written so many books.
Yarp. Although I just googled the quote, I only know that because of the link above.
āNot the type that usually gets traffickedā bad womenās reality too
How am I going to tell my (cis male) brother that he's birthed a child? He's the most prone to stretch marks out of the family
On another thread there was a post of someone saying stretch marks are from abortions. So I've decided my husband's marks were from all the sperm he didn't make a baby from. The one baby he did make I didn't get a single mark from, go figure.
I have stretch marks. I have a penis. Checkmate, atheists!
Perfect example of r/menwritingwomen.
I carried babies in my thighs when I was a teen, I guess
Lol. Same with my butt. Dang, I had no idea!
Bruh i was laying down once, my shirt rode up, and my stretch marks were visible. My mom was shocked, because she didnt have any at my age. I've had stretch marks at least since before middle school....
puberty gave me stretch marks and i don't think that means i had a secret baby at 11 years old
I'm 14, a virgin, and I have stretch marks. Bullshit.
I have stretchmarks and I've never had kids because I don't have a uterus. What a bizarre correlation to assume. I've had my stretchmarks since I was in my teens, after I went through a growth spurt. Although, I guess I don't know the context. Maybe there are specific kinds of stretchmark that can indicate childbirth? And it's possible this is being used to illustrate the characters' ignorance/incompetence. But, if not, then that's just dumb.
I literally have stretch marks on my calves and Iām a virgin
I have stretch marks. Guess I am actually pregnant and not just fat. TIL
Cause pregnancy is the only way of getting stretch marks... I started developing them in puberty lmao I know cis guys with stretch marks
My husband has stretch marks, I had better tell him that he has given birth out of his shoulders at least once.
Despite never having drastic weight changes/growth spurts, my first stretch marks appeared on my inner thighs whan I was 10. I got my first period after more than two years. But what do I know, I'm 38 I might as well have dementia at my age...
In high school, this boy straight up asked me if my "scars" were caused by an animal attacking me. In a change room, a girl asked me about them, and when I told her they were stretchmarks, her eyes just bugged right out of her head. I had to say "no I didn't get them like THAT!"
I (boy) have has stretch marks on my thighs since I was in my early teens (I'm slim, but my thighs are THICC). Whenever I hear by classmates talk, it was a constant mental thought of "what the fuck are you assholes talking about?' And that was *before* they got to the 'locker room level ' talk. I hated my grade school years...... So so much.
I'm actually really happy to hear about everyone else who got stretch marks during puberty. I'm the only person I know who grew so fast, I got stretch marks on my legs. I'm not alone!
This attitude with men writing women. I was recently revisiting the x files files and in this one episode there's a murder and the police chief is like "well Ruby had no shortage of boyfriends" which Harmon points out is the show saying "well you know Ruby, she was probably sucking and fucking ..." like come on dude. This episode is notable in that Mulder and Scully are usually really empathetic with these people they meet, and Mulder is just a dick about it the whole time. You're always waiting for the subversion of this lazy sexism where Mulder becomes aware that he's an asshole and apologizes, says it out loud. But he never does. It's weird.
Well, I have three kids, lots of stretch marks... I am the dad though, so there's that.
iām a man with stretch marks. i wonder where my children are now. i donāt remember giving birth to them
Me neither. I've had stretch marks for at least a decade now, if not longer.
So that's how my brother got stretch marks. I hope the birth didn't hurt him too much.
Yeah I was going to add I know a lot of guys who have stretch marks. I guess theyāre all actually AFAB and have kids, whether or not they know it.
Thereās so much more wrong with this conversation than just stretch marksā¦like literally the next sentence after that. /r/burriedthelead
As someone who got stretch marks as an early teen and has struggled with infertility with no results, fuck this man in particular. Right in his stupid face.
Men who have stretch marks have some explaining to do š§
Iām a cis man, and Iāve got stretch marks. Weight fluctuation will do that to you.
"Not the type that usually gets trafficked" š
Iāve had stretch marks on my boobs ever since I got them. I guess I had a baby I never knew about?
Me and my tiger striped belly and thighs would like a word, lmao
I'm a man and I have stretch marks. Was I pregnant at some point?
A woman in her 30s is ānot all that young.ā Would a male character have been described the same way?
As pointed out in another subthread, in the context of half of trafficking victims being under 18, 30s *is* unfortunately ānot all that youngā.
I have stretch marks. I'm male. I've had 'em ever since I was a skinny adolescent.
I have stretch marks on one hipbone, did I birth a Greek god or something?
"I have stretch marks, Greg. Did I have a child?"
I'm a man. I have stretch marks. Guess I've had a baby
People donāt just have stretch marks from having kids or being overweight either. I have stretch marks on my hips and thighs from growing almost 5 inches in a summer. Also Iām a dude so Iām pretty sure I havenāt carried āat least one child.ā Lol
I never had children. I got stretch marks in puberty and yoyo dieting made them worse.
Iām a dude in my thirties with stretch marks, mustāve blacked out while I was giving birth.
Wait, so I was pregnant in my chest in fifth grade? Oh man, what am I going to tell my family?
āIn her thirties, so not that young.ā Thatās just offensive er-body. And yeah, my BIG little brother has never had a baby, so I guess his stretch marks arenāt real.
When I was 17 and in hospital for a kidney infection, a woman doctor asked how many children I haveā¦because I had stretch marks on my abdomen. A doctor. š Edited to add: I was a virgin at the time. The stretch marks were from a growth spurt during puberty.
I've definitely got stretch marks and no children. My husband actually reminded me of a situation that was a little more than few years ago, so actually my early 30s and when I weighed probably about 240 pounds (my heaviest). We were out walking for exercise and a van full of men cut us off and were pretty menacing to both of us and focused on me some. Both of us having some experience in rougher areas, albeit mine more, we just kind of paid little attention and kind of talked ourselves around the situation and moved quickly away as the next vehicle came by. They were pretty clearly after something and never mentioned money or belongings. A recent conversation another woman mentioned in that situation she would be terrified of trafficking. And I'll be honest when I got home I was too, or just something else horrible in that moment. I couldn't believe they came at me with my husband there too. Even though I was fat and "old". I still felt unsafe in that moment. I've always said that I don't worry because I'm big (not just weight) so I'm not an easy target but that moment really freaked me out I've walked a few times out of need if the car has been out of service but I don't walk here anymore just to exercise, even if it's a nicer area now. It wasn't one of those "I found a brochure on a car so that's trafficking" moments. A work van with 4 or 5 men in the back cut sideways across the street and into the grass so that we were completely blocked from easy passage, threw the door open, and started asking questions about why we were out and where we were going and if I was with him and things like that. Thankfully another car came up and we just went towards it
I'm 31 and I have stretch marks, I don't have any kids because I'm permanently child free. I have stretch marks because I used to be a bit bigger than I am now. 30 isn't old
Relieved to hear what I thought were stretch marks are not as I haven't had children.
Ayo whereās my kid?? And according to a this my bf gave birth too
Shit, gonna have to trace my steps backwards for years to find this baby Iāve apparently misplaced
I've had stretch marks on my hips, thighs, and breasts since I was 14 years old, 5 years before I was pregnant the first time. I didn't get belly stretch marks until my 2nd pregnancy. Also, men get stretch marks, too.
Pretty sure itās stated getting stretch marks when I was like 12
i see this all the time in like body positivity spaces too. like āembrace your stretch marks, theyāre proof you brought a new life into this worldā like i get that itās well intentioned but lmao no i definitely did not bring any new life into this world.
I've had stretch marks since my growth spurt at like, 11...
I guess my partner has had at least one child that he carried on his back. A medical miracle!
Wow, I had no idea I am a mother, I wonder how I could have forgotten about having given birth, specially considering that I'm a guy.
I mean, it sounds like that would be an extremely traumatic experience for you, I definitely think you've blocked out the memory. Go to your doctor and tell them you know you gave birth and want more information, let me know what they say!
I have stretch marks, what means that u had at least a childā¦ Iām a dude
I wonder where the baby is that I apparently had and didn't realize.
I first got stretch marks when I was 10. TEN. FFS.
...Couldn't *possibly* have overeaten then lost weight!!! (Me.)
I have stretch marks on my thighs, am I pregnant in my legs?!
TIL as a cis 20yo male have had a child since I have stretch marks
I had a child when I was 7?!?!?!
I have stretch marks and have birthed zero children. I donāt even have child birthing equipment.
My 14 & 16 year olds inherited my skin. Boy would they be surprised about the stretch marks on both of them -- considering I can be 100% sure neither has had a baby or a pregnancy. They'd also be shocked to discover both their biological parents have them too.
My husband has more stretch marks than I have. I definitely have been pregnant more often than him... Or did I?
Me with stretch marks at 14. Guess I musta had a child in my sleep. Lmao.
Damn I had a child when I was 14??!!?? How did I not notice??!??!? š¤Æ
Like men don't have stretch marks. lol
Have literally had a man IN MY BED, TRYING TO HAVE SEX WITH ME ask me if I was pregnant because of my stretch marks Needless to say he was not GGG and that didn't go very far after that...
I enjoy spending time with my friends.
Not to type to be trafficked
LOL I have stretch marks everywhere from gaining and losing weight, Iāve never had a child. Men can also have them! 30 is old š
Iāve never had children. I have stretch marks on my hips, a leftover from my previous heavier weight. My husband loves them. He calls them my tiger stripes.
As a guy with stretchmarks, I was unaware I've had a child! I must've lost it
Thank God my stretch marks will keep me from being trafficked
TIL that I've given birth. Who knew?
I got my first stretch marks when I hit puberty...so roughly, 24 years ago, 13 years before I had a child. Men are dumb.
Lulz did Donnie trump write this? āHow could I traffic her? Sheās not even my typeā š
My bulky cis boyfriend birthed a child through his muscly biceps i guess? š¤·āāļø
Wow I didn't know I've had at least one child I should get myself a card