What is the difference between athletic and slender though? Because she's not particularly muscly that I can tell.

I get the impression she was talking about her body, not necessarily her face. Though plenty of women are totally gorgeous who aren't models or actresses. No reason to think her and her friends are not one of them. Not all pretty people decide to be in show biz :-)

How CAN we retrain our brains? I know that I feel ok about my body, but at my lightest I felt like I had a belly (size zero, clearly I was nuts) and now that I'm heavier I still do. When I try on clothes a big thing I look for is if I look skinny. Even though I actually consider myself to have a fairly healthy…

It seems like a chin that lined up with your nose would stick out a lot. I'm having trouble picturing it as something to strive for. That said, there's probably plenty of people who have that trait that manage to totally rock it.

Ooohhh I hadn't noticed but it is pretty. I would also like that nail polish. Nail polish all around!

Agree. And if you happen to misjudge what someone would like to hear as a compliment, just apologize and move on. And remember it next time you feel like complimenting them so you don't offend them twice.

Totally. That is such a good way of putting it.

I'm not sure what's going on in YOUR life that you feel the need to lash out irrationally at a stranger on the internet, but whatever. If it so easy to "make you sick" I'm not sure how you manage to get around in the world day in and day out. You don't know anything about my life, my background, my experiences or my…

I was basing the name off an alternative definition, "One inclined to a nomadic, unconventional way of life." I like to travel. And I disagree that it is offensive and disgusting. You are presuming a definition that is completely wrong. Words can have more than one meaning.

Yeah, agreed. I'm 5'2 and look like the size 12 despite being a much smaller size.

I think she was just teasing, and not in a negative way. She is telling this woman she is NOT fat.

I think height is a way bigger factor too. I think I look like the size 12 in that pic but am a 2. And I don't think I'm just totally deluded or body dismorphic; I think I look fine. I am really short though so I went from being able to wear kid sizes in high school/college to gaining some weight and now being a lot…

Guys, I think she's either a troll or just really confrontational. I checked out her other comments and they are both judgemental/negative in tone.

While I may agree with your point, I hate that internet commentary ends up being so antagonistic. You could have made your point without being aggressive.

The thing about this is rather than getting (some) parents to help, I can totally see a child getting beaten or abused because he or she didn't get a good enough grade in school. Most parents care, some don't, and the ones that don't aren't going to magically become great parents because of this law. It will just be…

I like that he picked a dog that matched his hair :-).

I don't know. Vronsky was a pretty good partner to Anna, though she got too jealous and insecure to really appreciate it. I mean, he liked doing his own thing sometimes but he treated her well and clearly loved her. And though I did like Levin for Kitty, I never liked that she basically had to be humbled into being…

See, I read it more that Kitty was "punished" by the author for daring to turn down a viable proposal (Levin) by being rejected by the guy she really liked and going through a serious depression (apparently the women in this book were really prone to depression). It wasn't until she had been properly humbled that she…

Point is, SeaAnemone was refuting that it can teach us what women want b/c it is only what marketers *think* they want. But women buy romance novels in droves. So I'm disagreeing with that point. If it wasn't what quite a few women wanted, it wouldn't be as successful a genre as it is. Women write it. Women read it.…

I did the same. I got mine after becoming sexually active, but was still able to get it I didn't have the virus. So it's not necessarily too late as an adult, but it's obviously too late if you have the virus already.