I’ve started a 20 lb challenge at my gym: personal trainer twice a week and a group class, at minimum, and daily hand-holding from a nutritionist. If I lose the 20 lb in the 6 weeks, I get my money back. Even if I don’t get my money back, the 6 weeks should kick start me into getting back where I was 4 years ago. I…

He’s lucky he’s a man, then. It seems like every man who makes the slightest change to his habits, like cutting soda or taking a walk after dinner, drops 15 lbs in like a week.

My boyfriend looks more and more like the Kevin Smith before picture. We’ve both put on weight since we met. It’s our fat and happy weight, but now it’s time to put it in check. Also, I’m still healthy enough to pass a life insurance exam. He’s not. He’s still attractive to me (I like a guy with a beard and a little…

We don’t have to keep propping up the assholes.

My mistake. You said repeatedly that if you’re supporting the likes of CK, you’re not supporting artists who are better people, leading me to think you thought of this as an ‘either or’ type deal.

Honestly, you’re the one being dishonest. You misconstrue Che’s statement that he has a right to speak and make a living as “deserves” (quotes yours, for some reason) to make a living.

Who says you can’t support more than one artist at a time?

I don’t think someone’s opinion is dishonest just because you happen to disagree with it.

Its completely fucked up - I put myself through a lot of starving, throwing up and binge-y behavior (I was never skinny) and I can’t imagine what these girls now and days are even going through. Skinny everything is every other scroll on my Instagram.

How do you “ensure they are truly contrite”? The very fact that they feel they can come on back without changing much if anything about their lives and the shit they’ve done seems to indicate quite clearly that they don’t.

The word tummy makes me ill.

You’re already in the blacks, so I won’t be bringing you out of them to reply. Though I’m normally in the greys, I have no interest in elevating the troll/dishonest responses, so I guess you’re the one I’m going to respond to.

In order to make myself feel better about my body, I just repeatedly tell myself that my body would have been the archetype of feminine beauty during the Renaissance.

AND - all you have to is go to your local Asian market/H Mart and pick up a box or two of “Dieter’s Tea” for less than $5 instead of buying overpriced, overhyped pooping tea from these flannel merchants. Sheesh.

They either make you poop or they’re diuretics which make you pee a lot and get rid of any liquid you’re retaining. They should not be used as a substitute for diets and exercise for weight loss but it’s insane how people still fall for that shit.

Diet teas make you poop. This makes your “tummy” (a word I fucking hate) feel less bloated.

Michael Che not being a piece of shit would be newsworthy. That said it is amusing that he mocks people’s interest in fame while expressing a bowel movement of an opinion that no one would care a whit about if he weren’t on TV.

So who is correct? It’s a fact that he never *actually* apologized for his actions. And several prominent comedians have pointed out that no actual apology has ever happened as far as the public is aware. Saying you are remorseful is not the same thing. That’s about the only objective thing I can take away from his…

IFIRC, the write up on this site was very accurate in pointing out that it leaned heavily on the assumption that the women admired him (as opposed to accepting that thought they may have, they were also on the bad end of a power differential), and went too far into the defensive.

I don’t know about the NYT, but I seem to remember Louis CK’s apology receiving mixed reviews, at best, on Jezebel. While some people did find his apology refreshing, many people also noticed that Louis CK made his apology all about himself.