I sometimes just decline the weigh-in. Like, if I'm having a bad day or just don't need that one extra irritant. I am closely monitored for a serious condition, so even skipping some weigh-ins I still get checked pretty frequently. It just makes me feel like I have some agency.

That sounds super cool!

Climate apocalypse will probably get us first, though.

OMG this.

Thank you for your service.

Because that's how Jez rolls these days? #grayforever

I’ve never seen “Keeping Up” or any other show featuring the Kardashian family and give zero fucks about the lot of them. But I think it’s absolutely fine to joke about anorexia (or any other distressing aspect of the human condition), as long as you are not making the joke at anyone else’s expense. By “anyone else’s…

I hope they are bitten by rabid bats. And are denied treatment. And die in a 100% preventable fashion.

I think there are really a LOT of factors that come together to produce this kind of cultural habitus. I’ve also seen the undertow 1) successfully resisted (in part, anyway) and 2) occasionally produce some very unexpected positive consequences.

You’ll be fine. I believe in you!

Thank you!

Every day, adv. ph. = cotidie = 每天

If you’re an adult who thinks the term is “investigating journalism,” you have no business getting snarky about anyone else’s cognitive faculties.

Just curious, were any of your Ethiopian or Eritrean friends less than drop-dead-gorgeous? I’ve started to suspect the entire region is like wall-to-wall supermodels. Not jealous or anything. Who needs cheekbones anyway?

Right?

Yes, that’s what I kept thinking. I know nothing about her except the tiny bit I’ve read concerning the lupus and transplant, but (fellow lupie) I’ve found some apects of the trajectory really hard to believe.

right? tons of people need to avoid sun.

“we had to destroy the village to save it.”

25 years of lupus, honey. :) i was a creaky old lady at 21. but at least i’m still here. as are you, super-amazing warrior that you are! i hope your health improves. or if that’s too much to ask, that it at least refrains from giving you even more crap.

the number one function of the human breast is to nourish the next generation — “the only really majestic choice we get to make in this life, which is to continue it.” i'm 42, have fantastic tits, and would gladly swap them for the state of motherhood.