Yes! I hate hate hate crushed velvet also. I can't believe so many people were praising Nicole Richie for her Met Gala gown, and now this?? No, no, no. It was hideous in the 90s and it's hideous now.

Sadly, I don't know if there are places that aren't so femmephobic. I personally don't identify as femme and never have, but I am a very feminine in appearance and a lesbian. I live in a huge city and still no one recognizes I'm gay. To be honest, I think this "alternative femme" look that they talk about on…

Just because your sexuality is fluid doesn't mean everyone's is. If a person self-identifies as a lesbian, no one should assume that there is a chance she's available to men, simply because sometimes people have fluid sexuality. As a lesbian who is has my sexuality constantly questioned, ignored, and disrespected, I…

As a lesbian who is very feminine in appearance, when I was single, I was inundated with men hoping I was bi or checked the wrong box or was so fantastic they could work their way in or whatever other reason they could come up with to ignore my sexual orientation. I got far more responses from men than I ever did from…

It's not that men turn me off, it's that they don't turn me on. At all. Lesbianism isn't about hating or being grossed out by men; it's about exclusively being attracted to women. I have lots of friends who are men and genuinely enjoy the company of men, but there is absolutely nothing there for me on a romantic or…

I'm really interested as to how they are going to do this. From the pictures, it seems like it's going to be set in modern times and I don't understand how that would work. I think a big part of why the original works is that she was so isolated, something that just isn't possible in the world of cell phones and the…

Glad I could help! As far as running, I think, different things work for different people. For instance, I really want to love those minimalist shoes, because I prefer more foot flexibility, but after wearing them for a while, I realized that my feet just ached and ached for hours after I ran. I went back to regular…

The conjecture about the quick changes in direction causing issues is just me guessing, but general scientific consensus is that runners don't have any more issues with their joints than anyone else. I don't think there is any one exercise that works for everyone, but I do think that running is unduly maligned when it…

All of the studies I've seen have shown no correlation between running and ruined knees/joints. I know lots of athletes with terrible knees and none of the them are runners. All of them played sports like soccer and basketball, where there are quick changes of direction, which I imagine is the origin of so many sports…

Honestly, it was probably significantly fewer than straight women get from men, but I was still shocked by how many I got.

Back when I was on okcupid, I got a lot of scumbag emails. I blocked straight people from seeing my profile (although random dudes did still manage to send me messages somehow), but mostly it was extremely sexual messages from women in relationships with men. If they were looking for a threesome, no judgement, but I…

How awkward looking

A fabulous, amazingly well-dressed villain. Have I mentioned I want her entire wardrobe? Why do villains always get the best clothes?

I completely agree that she's definitely not a feminist warrior or a hero. I think this is just symptom of the fact that so many people want everyone to fit in neat categories of "good" and "bad." Sometimes terrible things happen to terrible people. Just because rape is horrible and never the fault of the victim,…

Maybe I'm terrible for thinking this, but I know I would not have had an epiphany about how my flaws make me me and I like the "real me" better. I would definitely have liked myself better cover model flawless.

After years of doing pretty much only running and cardio, I started lifting recently. One of the things that always kept me away from weights was the fear of mega-buff jerks making me feel uncomfortable and worrying about people being judgmental since I was the only girl in there. I have to say, now that I'm in the…

I'm a runner and I could not agree with you more. No one who has never run before starts out running 2 straight miles at an 8:30 pace. Many people will never be able to maintain that pace for two miles. That is absurd to even recommend that. That advice will just discourage people and drive them to give up, not to…

You clearly are not a marathon runner. Plenty of marathon runners are fast, but just as many run at quite a slow pace. There is a reason for the phrase "it's a marathon, not a sprint" because marathon running is about endurance, not speed.

"Before his fall/winter 2014 runway show, Alexander Wang had told the media that the theme of his forthcoming line would be 'survival.'"

I completely agree. We need more Lupita and more women (and men) who break the mold of white thin young Hollywood, and it's important that they are in varied and interesting roles.