Holy fuck. Sounds like my mom to the tee. Even the JW part although I'm a guy so I'm sure your problem with the body shaming was way worse. Hell one time my mom bought skin bleach and wanted me to use it, I was like wtf mom.

If I say “keeping up with The Joneses”? Does a black woman come into your head? If we ask “Will it play in Peoria?” do you envision a Chinatown?

This should be on the wall next to the classic logical fallacies poster of everybody who wants to do anything that influences anybody else’s life...and it should be consulted before any people-influencing action is attempted

Is it weird that when I first saw his face, my immediate reaction was, "Look at Andy Dwyer! Growin' up and being all badass and stuff! Bert Macklin would be super duper proud."

That dress Zooey is wearing is at Modcloth! Wee! I observed something!

Someone once asked my aunt where she's from and she said: "From my mother's twat."

i think you hit the nail on the head with the use of the actors and everything. The moral is not told only in the prose, but the casting !