Amen. Good God, I'm going to bookmark this and reread it whenever my husband annoys me, so I never forget how awful being single would be.

Good to know. Can you expand on the context in which a fat feminist fat-acceptance advocate can bash a woman with serious self-esteem issues for her lack of actual squats? Would it be okay for anyone else to say it? Please, I'm really curious to learn about when and why it's ok to say these things about women's bodies.

Also, idea: If you worked as hard on your retouching skills as you do on your squats, you could really have the best of both worlds here.

Oh no worries. I have a friend with Celiac, and another with a bizarre psychotropic reaction to gluten, so if people tell me they can't eat it I tend to take it seriously. My concern is that twits like this woman will lead people to think that EVERYONE who says they can't eat X is like that, and they'll put a tbsp of…

Thank you. It sounds as if this is frivolous prosecution, but the headline is absurd and insulting. Is Upworthy merging with Jez?

Yeah, there's lots of people with my name on FB, and all of my privacy settings are restrictive, so I'm like the 19th person you'd find. A good half of them are demographically similar, too.

It is hilarious that someone felt the need to edit the C out of fuck. Because THAT's the most explicit part of the picture.

She certainly interpreted the theme better than most others. *coughKimYecough*

Agreed. Training myself to stop when full, even if there was food on the plate, was surprisingly hard. (Thanks, Mom.) I'd kind of internalized that it was polite to clean your plate, and ate mindlessly a lot.

I may not be recalling it accurately, but (this is hard without spoilers) it was just mustache-twirling levels of plotting and evil. Made me think the author was more selfaware than I'd previously thought.

If I'm remembering it correctly, the very end goes so over the top that I almost liked it again.

And hold it on a plantation!

I did not much like it, but I'd heard raves about it all summer, so am unsure how much of it was genuine dislike vs failure to live up to high expectations.

Yeah, that's the scary part, that he'd be able to get that close to my house/office/whatever. That, and it's kind of a clever threat, because everyone gets a flat sooner or later, and when I did, you know it sent chills down my spine. Ugh.

I have had a very small taste of something similar. I reacted similarly, but with many qualms. What I wonder is, how much is known about internet threats? Do people issue them the way they take other hardline stances, ie in real life, with a face to a name, they would never be so extreme and antagonistic? What is the…

Yeah. I realize that most of the time people mean no harm by this (there are always some who see it as a dominance move) but it bugs. I am a happily touchy person with those I am close to - hug hubs and kids all the time, sit curled into a good friend on a couch, etc - so it's not that I don't like touch per se. It's…

In our family kisses on the lips were totally out of bounds. So I feel squicked out when I see relatives do it, and I never "social" kiss on the lips, because in my paradigm kissing on the lips is sexual. However, when I was about 11 I realized that other families/cultures saw it differently, so it doesn't bother me…

This is something my mother got very, very right. She never pressured us to hug, kiss or have physical contact with anybody, even though it pissed off the grandparents/aunts/uncles. She wouldn't even tolerate nagging; if they tried to guilt or cajole us, she'd say, "we don't have to kiss anybody, ever."

It's absurd. The idea that eating fat makes your fat and eating cholesterol raises your own cholesterol is like sympathetic magic or voodoo, and yet it's so ingrained. Does eating vegetables make you a vegetable?

It's almost as if we didn't have a massive obesity epidemic!