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Auspice

@RnMissionRun said in RL Anger:

I don't think shower preferences are a gender thing. I'm a guy, and I like my showers so hot that it leaves my skin red after.

Don't know. But women in the office complaining that it's too cold does seem to be common.

Anemia is more common in women.
Anemia tends to lead to an iron deficiency. Iron deficiency means your red blood cells aren't working efficiently to carry oxygen through your body to do things like, oh...keep you warm.

Anemia is a pita because it's honestly really difficult to keep iron levels up. Esp. when paired with other common conditions in women, like hypothyroidism.

Did you know iron (iron pills, iron rich foods, etc?) can make hypothyroidism worse? I have to juggle my pills each day and the food I eat so that they don't all cancel each other out. Thyroid pill immediately when I wake up. No dairy or anything with iron! And I don't want to take any calcium supplements alongside my iron supplement because that can cause severe nausea...

yadda yadda yadda...

When the kale (super food!) craze was going on, some people actually tipped themselves into temporary hypothyroidism because they were taking too much of it (you should cook kale if you have hypothyroidism; don't have things like it or spinach or broccoli raw....at least not too much of it.)

I was fucking up my meds and timing so bad until I sat down with an endocrinologist and she was like "No wonder none of your shit has been working. None of your other doctors ever told you any of this?!"

Also, for any other anemic ladies: look up "blood builder" on Amazon. It's the only one that doesn't make me sick. Also has a bunch of other vitamins and minerals in it. Friend of mine that's a midwife/doula recommended it years ago.

surreality

Also, women store heat in the body core. Men in the extremities. (Blame evolutionary adaptation if you must.)

Our extremities are typically where the sensory organs live.

Roz

Also men's business wear just has more layers and is overall warmer and the thermostat is generally set in deference to that.

insomniac7809

At my place of business, the temperature seems to just be permanently set to 'wrong'

Auspice

@insomniac7809 said in RL Anger:

At my place of business, the temperature seems to just be permanently set to 'wrong'

I'm just reminded of this.

mietze

Well, I can tell you, at a certain point those women are going to suddenly find that the office is WAY TOO FUCKING HOT. Ask me how I know. Though immediately afterwards it's going to be even more too fucking cold.

Sparks

@insomniac7809 said in RL Anger:

At my place of business, the temperature seems to just be permanently set to 'wrong'

A couple of months ago, our HVAC system at work started acting a little inconsistent; different parts of the fourth floor were at different temperatures. Over in the HR pod it was freezing cold (by everyone's standards), while over at the other end of the floor it was consistently too hot (by everyone's standards). However, building management didn't consider it serious enough to deal with as a priority.

A couple of weeks ago, the HVAC system started making a sustained, horrific, ear-piercing shearing-metal screech, and then began to emit a smokey smell.

Building management fixed the HVAC pretty damned promptly.

It's so nice to have the office a proper temperature again. Though I'm still not entirely convinced one of my co-workers didn't sabotage the system deliberately to force the issue; we are an engineering firm, and we have access to the roof and HVAC shed...

Thenomain

@Roz said in RL Anger:

Also men's business wear just has more layers and is overall warmer and the thermostat is generally set in deference to that.

I would wear fewer layers if I could, but whatcha gonna do.

Tradition

Auspice

@Thenomain said in RL Anger:

@Roz said in RL Anger:

Also men's business wear just has more layers and is overall warmer and the thermostat is generally set in deference to that.

I would wear fewer layers if I could, but whatcha gonna do.

You can have the skirts/dresses WITH NO POCKETS if you want.

I'm sure us ladies would be glad for the pants WITH POCKETS and the jackets WITH POCKETS.

Ghost

My SO showed me the pockets in her jeans, once.

Women's pockets are buuuullshit. My man-pants can hold 3x what she can in her lady-jeans.

I empathize with women when it comes to their shitty lot in life when it comes to women's clothing that can't fit a cell phone in them. In fact, the jeans I'm wearing right now have two big back pockets and a sub-pocket next to my right buttcheek that is designed specifically for a smartphone.

A travesty, it is.

Tinuviel

@Auspice said in RL Anger:

You can have the skirts/dresses WITH NO POCKETS if you want.

We did. They're called kilts.

Auspice

@Tinuviel said in RL Anger:

@Auspice said in RL Anger:

You can have the skirts/dresses WITH NO POCKETS if you want.

We did. They're called kilts.

And you had a damn sporran to go with it, too.

Tinuviel

@Auspice said in RL Anger:

And you had a damn sporran to go with it, too.

A skirt with a bag. It's not our fault you folks insist on wearing bags on your shoulders, we know where bags are supposed to hang.

Auspice

@Tinuviel said in RL Anger:

@Auspice said in RL Anger:

And you had a damn sporran to go with it, too.

A skirt with a bag. It's not our fault you folks insist on wearing bags on your shoulders, we know where bags are supposed to hang.

I've actually, for years, been trying to find a good bag to wear at my hip that isn't a fanny pack. Unfortunately, NONE ARE CONSIDERED BUSINESS WEAR.
(And yes, I also know what fanny is slang for, for you. #dealwithit)

A sporran was 'formal.'

Tinuviel

@Auspice said in RL Anger:

A sporran was 'formal.'

It's become formal. Crazy highlanders still wear them for daily wear.

Aria

@Auspice said in RL Anger:

@Thenomain said in RL Anger:

@Roz said in RL Anger:

Also men's business wear just has more layers and is overall warmer and the thermostat is generally set in deference to that.

I would wear fewer layers if I could, but whatcha gonna do.

You can have the skirts/dresses WITH NO POCKETS if you want.

I'm sure us ladies would be glad for the pants WITH POCKETS and the jackets WITH POCKETS.