I am insane with jealousy. I can’t tell you how much I wanted it, but my mom thought maxi skirts were inappropriate for school.

On the back of your success I tried to do my own Image Search and was disappointed to not be able to find the dragon-embroidered maxi skirt that has been burned into the most wanting part of my brain since I saw it in the Delias catalogue.

The summer before I went to middle school (1996 or 1997), a Delias catalogue showed up at my house. I pored over it, because I wanted to show the kids at my new school that I was Cool and Awesome and Definitely Not A Nerd, and what better way to do that than with Cool Awesome clothes?

Their shoes go up to 11, and in styles that a girl who never got to wear combat boots when they were age-appropriate (me) can covet. Their inseams also go insanely long, and I’m tall. I hit up Delias all the time.

Definitely, but we’re supposed to be better, and we need to prove it by not making the simplest of mistakes over and over again.

When that’s what’s being said, that’s what I’ll respond to. What was actually said, and what I’m responding to at the moment, is the idea that an animal is equal to a human.

I have actually never spoken to a creationist, a fact for which I will gladly bow down in thanks to every god that I don’t believe exists.

I have no idea who you’re hanging out with who isn’t aware of this fact.

It’s not NOT sexism. But being unable to figure out when things are literally too bad to compare to other things, which is a pretty entry-level concept I think, is not helping.

To be fair, I’m kind of into spin classes, and I’m SUPER into gay clubs, so this sounds like something I would be 100% all for.

I demand that anyone who wants to make a case about how no-one cares about “real” problems in Zimbabwe first find Zimbabwe on an unlabeled map.

You are absolutely correct.

I’ll be saving these links for my own use when the season rolls around again. Maybe just print the articles to hang in my cubicle.

Important to note: there is no lion season.

“Divorced from” may be the wrong terminology. “Think it’s fundamentally silly” may be more on target. It’s not like it’s an idea I’ve never heard before, I just don’t think it’s true.

This is why people can’t take feminists, liberals, or other social-justice-oriented people: because as a group we can’t get our heads around how to make an analogy that isn’t hideously offensive.

Welcome to the way Americans view their taxes.

It’s a very short list of things that couldn’t be more bullshit if they tried.

Exactly. Teens have warped priorities and that makes them think things that don’t matter matter, which is why you can be popular because daddy drives a sports car or mommy lets you get a nose ring. The vast majority of people wise up by the time they’ve finished college, and the shit that got you major play in high…

Nothing like PETA’s involvement to get me to not give a shit about something I might otherwise be concerned about.