Totally agreed. Though I enjoy it when I feel like I look nice, I'd rather not spend an hour standing around with a bunch of chicks talking about it. I want to go to the bar immediately, and start flirting/joking around with other people, so I can put that momentary confidence to good use!

I have an older brother who is single like I am, and I compliment him all the time because I think he is a genuinely attractive, awesome guy. I think that he's been a little insecure lately about relationships and attempting to date (he's in his late 30's, and I think he's getting cynical).

Damn, THAT'S Carla Bruni? Girlfriend has been a'botoxin. Yikes.

Right? My take away from this is - I don't know if it's actually a compliment for poor Natalie Portman, Jennifer Aniston, and Megan Fox. THAT'S the most beautiful feature people could think of for those women??? WTF. "Why yes, that Natalie Portman has the perfect FOREHEAD." Not something I would ever think about.

P.S. It's also a really bad case of media getting their stories off of Facebook, because I think that's how this whole thing originally started - she posted the receipt on Facebook, and it just took off.

I don't know that journalistic research could have helped this story. It's not until it got into the public in the first place that people started really looking at it and questioning it and digging deeper. I think that it's more a problematic case of media histrionically seizing on a completely minor and individual…

I once worked for a woman who I think may have been diagnosed with some form of ADD, and I sometimes wonder if some of her hostile behavior was because of some drugs she may have been taking.

I don't know that it's right for you to feel ashamed of a choice that you made in a tempting situation as a young, inexperienced girl just because there are certain sectors of society who would label you as a victim. It's ok to be grossed out by it now, but like another poster said about her own experience - it was…

You know what would be edgy for Lars Von Trier? If he did an animated movie about kittens and rainbows. I would totally see that. Otherwise, yawn.

I was just reading something about personality disorders that seems like it has relevance to these behaviors. I'm not a psychologist at all, but obviously its useful to read up about symptoms and conditions when you're curious about your or someone else's behavior.

I had a friend like this too, and what I saw in it was actually a need to have someone around to control, and an insecurity in needing to have someone constantly adoring her. If a guy wasn't moving as fast as she wanted to? Boom he was gone. Now she's married, a real fast, instant courtship. Instant husband, who…

That sounds HORRIBLE!

I think that's a very common phenomenon on both sides, and really should be the indicator of whether the relationship is good for either party. If the guy isn't responding to your texts in the way that you would like him to, or the girl would rather hang out with all her friends then with the guy, then people need to…

Totally. They were probably jealous that you got to him and they didn't, sadly.

Ugh, that seems totally weird. I myself just started pursuing a fuck buddy relationship, and I met a guy who I had an awesome time with, but I have high suspicions that he fucks around with A LOT of people. I knew it wasn't going to be exclusive, but when I realized all that he was up to, it's kind of started to…

As a photographer, I have a different view of the selfie. While it does sometimes seem to be an instance of a girl or woman trying to frame herself in a way that will entice male approval, in the art world, it has traditionally been a form of radical and empowered self expression for a woman to create art around her…

Ha! I just did a google search of "kate moss bush" because I wanted to see this for my own eyes, and this wonderful image came up in the results —

Sometimes arguments about the "patriarchy" seem to devolve into absolving women from thinking consciously about their own actions and choices, which to me is not the kind of feminism I practice. I feel empowered by having the courage to think about what I'm doing and act from my own heart IN SPITE of whatever power…

There are so many women I wish I could tell this to and have them get it. Bravo. We can be empathic to one another, but we do not have to be codependent.

I get and totally agree with what you're saying, and thank you for reflecting honestly on your own experience. I think the problem is that most women may not be as conscious as you were about the systems they are a part of, and how those systems give them the tools to hurt other women. Without understanding the…