But it's perfectly fair and valid to tell someone who makes shoes that their shoes are not comfortable to wear and that you'd like them to do something about it.

Let's hear it for the guys (amateur actors?) who played the villains.

ME TOO.

It might look more fiery when lit, but I like the understatement of it, very Modernist looking.

No shade. I read the ladymag sex tips at the supermarket checkout and at the nail salon and YES oh my god what are people doing in bed where you need to read a sex tip that says "hey, maybe a back rub would be nice" or "try pinching his nipple, he might like it!"

The classic ladymag sex tip is to wrap your scrunchie around your dude's balls while giving him a beej. The little bit of pressure is nice, by all accounts.

Ice cubes. Yesssssss.

Totally agree. No sugar added, please. We're not baking cinnamon rolls tonight.

I'm not a regular consumer of it, but it seems to me that lots of ladymag writing involves how nudity is gross and doing anything that isn't ruthlessly vanilla is a red-hot scandalous secret sexy sex pro tip. "Scrunchies, OMG!"

I am actually LOL'ing about the idea of that running in Glamour. Holy shit.

Agree that it's not (usually) the hospital administrators that have skewed priorities; it's mostly the environment we all swim in.

OK, so here's the commie part... ;)

Not to get all Che Guevara about it, but ultimately it's the profit motive that puts unhealthy food in hospitals (and most other places you find it too).

Agreed. And, to extend the metaphor, it's pretty clear what a Big Mac and fries has to offer you nutritionally. It's not good, but at least you see clearly what you're getting into.

I see that you're being facetious, but to literally answer your questions:

There's a hospital in Minnesota that was one of the first to allow McDonald's. They did so because, unlike other food vendors, McDonald's was willing to work with them to adjust their menu to create healthier options.

To me, McDonald's shaming sounds a lot like when white urbanites talk about how racist "rednecks" from the South are.

I haven't read Shades of Grey (or Twilight) but my impressions are similar — if you're scandalized by a little sugar-coated roughness, you don't get out much at all, ever. Not even to the Romance novel rack at the supermarket.

Her don't-give-a-fuckness is cool except where it concerns actual people and their actual lives. Like, for example, her comments on the survivors of Hurricane Katrina.

Y'know... pressure to live beyond your means, whether it's prom dresses, big mortgages, or iPhones, is something that keeps poor people poor. And makes middle class people poor too sometimes.