In my experience, it depends where your head is when you enter Weight Watchers. If you realize that your regular daily eating habits are unnecessarily caloric and you need a system to help you learn to set reasonable limits for yourself (or see what reasonable portions actually look like), it can be a great way to…

I love getting my hair done. If it weren’t so expensive to go to nice salons, I’d get regular trims and stuff all the time, but in New York, I usually end up going to apprentices who are training at high end salons.

I’m really looking forward to the entertainer that Miley’s growing into. I realy wish she hadn’t gotten all tone-deaf-racist on us, because as someone who’s been chewed up, spit out, autouned and otherwise career-manhandled by the fucked up corporate pop record industry, she IS able to hold her own. Are there better…

1. UUUUUUUGHHHH I WANTED HER HAIR BUT NEVER COULD HAVE PULLED IT OFF. Actually I don’t think this has changed since middle school.

Maybe she just thought it was the gateway to the ocean?

I'm pushing 30 and can still barely figure it out

I was like, waiting for the day I’d finally be objectified!

In case it hasn’t been mentioned, don’t shirk away from giving hugs/physical contact when she starts to go through puberty (you don’t want her to think that you’re uncomfortable with her changing body), but be aware that her comfort level with certain types of touch might change as she becomes more aware of her…

Maybe I was oblivious, but I never got checked out when I was growing up. I think I was decently cute looking, blonde, athletic but never thin, not very curvy, very self conscious about my weight. Nervous around boys, TERRIFIED of being teased by family or classmates for “liking” someone or being “liked” by someone.…

I applaud you.

OMIGOD IS SHE STILL AROUND I LOVE HER SO MUCH

GOD am I lame! I spent 4 glorious months in Spain when I was 20, bouncing all around Europe on the weekends, and didn't so much as kiss anyone! I've always been so self conscious around guys that the only ones I register as "interested" are the shameless creepers. (And when you're an American in study abroad, they…

“The key is abusing your position of authority to make the child believe the ‘relationship’ is normal. Anything is possible when you groom your victim thoroughly enough for it to be psychologically devestating for him to accept the idea that a child is not an adult, and therefore cannot consent to an adult…

I'm in my late 20s and my hair is the longest it's been since elementary school! (...and it's exactly the same haircut)

Ugh, you are spot on. A form of grooming. Muddying the waters. ("The 'knowledgeable' person in charge says this weird thing is normal, and according to virtually everyone, he is a respected industry expert and therefore probably right, so other things he does that I think are uncomfortable are probably normal as…

It's strange how it takes some unpacking to even realize the narrative we're buying into when it comes to sex and sexual relationships. Even for people like me (and other readers of this site) who put a lot of mental energy into it, I find myself blindsided by the absurdity and the simplicity of institutionalized…

I'm so proud of these women for coming forward and sharing their stories. I hope all of the "where were they with their accusations 30 years ago????" people can begin to see that rapists usually TARGET victims who they are most likely to get away with raping. Cosby didn't go around drugging just any woman he felt…

Oh, that's an easy one! Dutch braid bring the side sections under the middle one (same technique that's used for cornrows typically) while French braids bring it over. They are the same, except the Dutch braid pattern looks upside down and "inside out" since it's sitting on top of the hair. When you're doing it on…

I love deep-set eyes. They can handle eye makeup so well

Oops, please excuse the double post and typos!!