“Wellness for me is like a greediness. It’s not enough for me that I’m not sick. I have to be well. This is something you can buy.”

This article and some of the comments remind me of the reaction some of my classmates had to the girl who was ranked second in my year at school. People she barely knew hated her guts because how dare she be so intelligent and academically successful, while also being conventionally attractive and not socially…

Jesus some of the comments here have a whiff of misogyny. Why should she be humble about her intelligence?? Most men certainly aren’t.

“remain one of the only countries in the world with no form of national paid leave.”

I appreciate that Meghan is using her influence for good. It reminds me a smidge of how Jackie O used to send nice messages (that were really arm twisting missives) in support of things she cared about like preserving Grand Central Station. If Meghan were still under the thumb of the monarchy, she’d never have been…

It’s entirely on-brand for Meghan McCain to not realize that people are being shitty to her because she’s being shitty to them. She’s the epitome of the person who doesn’t realize that she’s not just running into assholes all day: she’s the asshole.

Does this make her a snowflake? It does, right? Am I right?

Parasocial relationships, over-identification, projection, whatever — we need to bring back the Greek pantheon for glomming, and stop demanding someone’s personal life be an integral part of their job (save exceptions involving criminal/abusive behavior, and others I can’t think of right now). 

What is genuinely surprising to me around the issue of “body positivity” (or was surprising, before it happened a bunch of times,) is the number of people who come out of the woodwork to say mean things about celebrities (and particularly female celebrities,) after they’ve lost a significant amount of weight. I think…

To be fair, Fat Amy gave herself the nickname Fat Amy so the twig bitches didn’t do it behind her back.

“what’s with these theater kids...where they do not have the best attitudes/personalities?”

Growing up I took note of—not just from her in particular—things I want to carry on my life and things I don’t want to carry on

“Blatantly[...]not the best advice” is a delicious turn of phrase.

She threw enough shade to combat climate warming.

Gladiator would be it for me.

Wasn’t there a recent story about Damon using the F-slur up until his daughter urged him not to (that backfired on him)?

Good answer to a “gotcha” question. ANYONE asked a similar question is risking a minefield of responses that can be twisted or misinterpreted. He artfully deferred the question (that had nothing to do with him or his own actions!) with a nothing answer that took no sides.

I thought it was a pretty solid answer - he didn’t want to talk about it, he made that clear, and he was classy about it. I’m not sure what else you could want in a celebrity non-response.

It also seems to suggest that everyone who is fat is fat for the same reasons.

Fitness culture is the same garbage as diet culture.