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Is anyone else starting to feel kind of wary about the increasingly common narrative that "women's bodies are so different to men's that modern scientific recommendations do not apply to them"?

I wish I could make white people(and not just white Americans) understand how diverse the pre-columbian Americas were. The history, religion, culture, politics was at least as complex as Europe's. There was the full gamut of religions, from monotheists to animists to ancestral religions. There were city building empires, village farmers, nomadic traders, and so many other ways to live. This is all just based on what we know, the fragments left behind and the stories of survivors of an apocalyptic plague. All this before the most extended campaign of genocide in history was waged in an attempt to wipe out those survivors.

When it’s announced that a Bay Area middle school teacher is one of three heroes sent to save the world, San Francisco clamors to rename things to “Ryland Grace.” Grover Cleveland Middle is quick to the draw, becoming Ryland Grace Middle the very next school year. Grace also gets a street, of course, a science wing at Stanford, a state park along the coast — by the time the Beetles return, you could probably throw a rock in San Francisco and hit a Ryland Grace reference.

I think stratt's approach to her health is a combination of a) believing that it absolutely, comprehensively does not matter in the context of her current situation and being willing to put herself through literally any hardship if it can give humanity a better chance and b) viewing herself as a critical piece of equipment that cannot be allowed to malfunction or, god forbid, breakdown under any circumstances. she has the precise numbers on how little sleep she can get, how many meals she can miss, and how much caffeine she can have before it significantly affects how she operates. the psychiatrists she's consulted have all told her that the pressure and the knowledge of her impending prison sentence should probably be making her "actively suicidal" or "completely fucking insane" or smth so if/when it all ever starts to feel a little heavy she makes sure to verbalize her concerns to someone else to "share the burden" (lol. lmao.) so she doesn't snap and turn into emperor caligula or whatever. she's not stupid, she knows she's too important to risk putting herself out-of-commission, so she methodically schedules in the necessary maintenance.