/feels/ - Advice & Venting

1. During pregnancy, cells pass back and forth between a mother and her baby. What is truly amazing is that these baby's cells can stay active in the mother's body for decades after birth—a phenomenon known as fetal microchimerism.
If a mother’s heart, liver, or other organs suffer an injury later in life, these lingering fetal cells will actually migrate straight to the site of the damage. Once there, they can transform into the specific types of cells needed to help repair and heal her body.

2. A surprising number of life-saving and everyday inventions were born purely out of women looking out for others. In 1902, a woman named Mary Anderson was riding a streetcar during a freezing sleet storm in New York City. She noticed that the driver had to keep opening the front window to manually wipe away the ice, leaving him shivering and delaying the passengers.
Feeling bad for the freezing driver, she went home and sketched out a lever-operated rubber blade that could clear the window from inside the cabin. She patented the very first windshield wipers a year later, entirely because she wanted a stranger to stay warm and dry.

3. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a brilliant group of women known as the "Harvard Computers" completely revolutionized astronomy. At a time when women weren't allowed to operate the university's telescopes, they were hired to analyze thousands of photographic glass plates of the night sky by hand.
Despite being barred from the actual observatory equipment, their mathematical precision unlocked the universe. Annie Jump Cannon created the star classification system still used by scientists today, and Henrietta Swan Leavitt discovered how to measure distances in deep space—the exact "cosmic yardstick" Edwin Hubble later used to prove the universe is expanding.

4. Biologically, some women possess an actual superpower when it comes to perceiving the world. While the average person has three types of color-sensing cone cells in their eyes, a genetic variation allows some women to possess four distinct types of cones.
This condition, called tetrachromacy, allows them to see up to 100 million different colors—roughly 100 times more than the rest of us. Where a standard eye sees a basic green leaf or a gray concrete wall, a tetrachromat can perceive an incredibly rich, shifting gradient of entirely distinct shades and tones that most people simply cannot detect.

Women are amazing!

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Hello nonas, im really sorry for annoying you with this post but i need a strong answer.

Every time im not listening to a video or music, my mind cant help but ramble about random bad shit about me, my friends, and my loved ones.
I think i have a pretty good and fulfilling life, but i cant help but to overthink every single step of mine, throwing down my achievements and thinking that people actually hate me.

anyone ever got a similar situation? Got any suggestions on how to deal with it? Postal 1 dude just because he's cool

Hi nonas! I am a 29 yo autistic woman but even though Im awkward and bad at socializing Ive managed to keep some (girl) friends on my social circle, some of them Ive known since HS. Anyway fast forward to today and for over a decade none of them have managed to help me bag a boy/moid (whatever term you prefer). So I decided to try to find out what the moids had to say about it and several of them told me that I have friends who are gatekeeping me out of relationships with men. This honestly shocked me a little because I think it could be true I dunno. How can I tell if my friends are driving away moids (even the good ones)? I have no social skills and this is frankly eating me up on the inside, if this is true I do not know how to react to this or how to confront any of my friends. Please help me I am so confused I don't know what to think. I don't want to be in my 30s with no boyfriend experience, I dont need a super handsome moid just one who will love and respect me to some degree at least. Thanks!

Do you guys ever struggle with loneliness? Is the feeling almost constant and intense, or is it more buried and hidden until you think about how alone you are?

Share you thoughts, feelings, vents, insecurities, fears etc about loneliness, maybe we can all help each other out to not feel so alone for a second <3

i love my boyfriend desu
but clothes that hang up in his room smell like ammonia-y ferret droppings. not musky, like cat pee if it was even worse, and without actually coming in contact with the pee. he has to wash his clothes when he comes over. when i go over i have to keep my clothes shut in my zipped suitcase. my dumb ass just hasn't told him that i know the source of it
we're ldr and idk how to broach the topic that it is gonna be me or the ferrets if he wants me to move in with him. i have migraines and my ocd already makes me think i'm stinky
also it's bad for animal welfare i think
wtf i do
(i already am bitey when he doesnt do stuff to my standard in my home, he just says ok and does it tho)

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help i don’t know if this is the wrong place to ask this or if this is gross and tmi but like i genuinely dont know if this normal
so everytime i masturbate by penetration i pee… is that fucking normal ive looked everywhere and it said that it’s just squirting but i don’t know if it’s actually that and i’m fucking scared that if i get boyfriend and we have sex i’ll fucking piss on him

My cousin is so “normal” and I envy her sometimes, not really her life but how easily she seems to make decisions and stay kind of oblivious and content.

She has the career in corporate hell (based on her personality she’s the type to believe if you work hard you’ll get promoted even though this is rarely true), the husband (who is literally just a TikTok rage bait video at this point), the kid (who will likely grow up repeating the same cycle or check out of society), the house (poorly made in America, basically cardboard and always needs repairs), the car (expensive, pretty sure it’s like 80k), the vacations (they just go to hotels and say they visited that country).

All these things are good if it’s with the right people don’t get me wrong.

It seems like in the West, people either naturally fit into this kind of life and enjoy it, or they’re pressured into it and eventually learn to be fine. Then there’s everyone else, who they call losers, who are either too unstable health-wise or financially to deal with life, can’t give a shit because it’s all going to crap anyway, or stuck in the “should I or shouldn’t I” limbo.

I think I’m stuck in that limbo. This might sound crazy, but I think about just trying to fit the normal life to pass time because life is too long. Like my cousin will likely wake up one day divorced, doing gig work, fired from her job for daring to be older than 50, etc., but at least she’ll be 50-something and have spent those 20-something years doing something, unlike me who is essentially doing nothing.

I’ve chatted to some people online anonymously who’ve said they regretted doing the normie life. The grass is greener on the other side. I don’t think these people actually picture what they would be doing if they weren’t doing what they’re doing now.

Maybe I’ll marry an “incel”, adopt a kid, and hope my shitty mindset won’t be passed on.

But who am I kidding. I think you really need to be a bit oblivious and used to making “dumb” decisions to live life like this. I don’t think you can fake it, even though people say they are every day. I don’t really believe it, or maybe I’m just so lazy that I can’t even imagine faking it.

I went to the hair salon and got my hair done. Afterward, the hairstylist started taking pictures of me to advertise her work on Instagram without asking for my permission. It made me feel really insecure, and then she did the typical, “Oh no, sweetheart, you’re so gorgeous.”

I really hate that kind of “baby girl” manipulation some women use with other women, acting overly nice and showering you with compliments while taking advantage of you or dismissing how you actually feel.

I call it the “baby girl” act because it reminds me of a certain YouTuber who has that exact performative personality (rhymes with Yasmin Fan)