u/Effective-Sugar-758

Honestly, I can't believe that the solution was this simple all along...
For years, I've suffered from debilitating hay fever. Nothing seemed to help. Antihistamines did next to nothing, I even had immunotherapy for 3 years with no results.
I have tried using nasal steroid sprays before - to no avail, so I gave up. Reading a post on this sub about correct use inspired me to try again. I wasn't expecting much, but it couldn't hurt to give it another go.

(By spraying towards your ear with your head tilted slightly forward, taking deep breaths instead of snorting the spray)

I kid you not: all my allergy symptoms in and around my nose have vanished completely after two weeks. I sneeze 3 times a day now at most, some days not at all. I used to hate that constant itch in your nose that always felt like you were about to sneeze but couldn't - that's gone now too. So is the snot. Pollen counts at very high and I'm breathing with absolutely 0 issues.
I'm so grateful I found this community, this one simple thing drastically improved my quality of life, thank you all so much!

Pretty much what the title says. I've been a sufferer of severe hay fever (mostly grass pollen) pretty much since childhood and got allergy shots from ages 12 to 15. I am now 20 and my symptoms haven't really improved. I recently went to see my ENT to get tested again, and she suggested me getting shots for 3 years again because this time it might help. Would it be worth it? My allergies do impact my quality of life, but I don't want to waste my time sitting in a waiting room waiting to get the shot every week again if it's not gonna do anything.

I just want to get this off my chest. I am aware that the discussion around sexism in shoujo is a pretty hot topic, and far be it from me to stop people from expressing criticism, but it gets to a point.

I recently saw a post of a male creator talking about certain female leads in shoujo romance, and the gist of it was basically: "People hate on these characters because they're soft and in touch with their femininity and that makes them jealous" while also making blanket accusations of internalised misogyny, and I think that's kinda crossing a line. I believe that in general we gotta tread more lightly with throwing around terms like "internalised misogyny" but if now were at a point where men can appropriate that rhetoric to espouse what is very obviously thinly veiled sexism we've lost the plot. In the first place, terminology like "in touch with their feminine" is just a 1950's type of ideology repackaged in modern lingo and I think that that can be really harmful. As a disclaimer, I have no problem with men enjoying shoujo and expressing their opinions on it, but I don't think we should let this sort of subtle sexism infiltrate a female centric community.

I won't speak on the female leads that creator mentioned as being "hated upon" since I haven't even watched all of these shows, but in my first place my impression was always that they were relatively popular. There was probably also criticism of them that was unreasonable. There always is, with every piece of media. But making these sort of blanket accusations isn't getting us anywhere, as it also inhibits people from expressing reasonable critique. And in the end, we still have to remember that people have a right to dislike something you like and express that dislike without seeing it as an attack.