It always feels like we have two options: First, we can exist within our culture and engage with it under the full understanding that not everything means what an individual subjectively feels like it means. Second, we can wall ourselves into a perfect world where we know that everything around us is wrong and that we…

No, no it was tongue-in-cheek :) I meant to imply that not every woman (or man) is a size 0 and just that one needs to, obviously, determine what looks good on you!

But body shapes don't work that way!

Honestly, that's the same thing. You're better off trying it on at home and returning it if it doesn't take your fancy.

You buy what you like and then take it to a tailor or do your own alterations. Have we forgotten how clothing works?

Do people no longer try on clothes? you just buy them, rip off the tags and assume they were tailored to your body?

Uh, does no one try on clothing before they buy it anymore? What looks great without alteration on my friends doesn't always look the same on me. If anything, it's a confirmation that mannequins bodies are different from our own (regardless of unrealistic body image).

Lazy! Fire him!

That's his "O" face, obvs.

And seriously, that tie is about an inch too wide to be stylish anytime outside of the '90s.

Nah, all the dudebros are gonna give 'em high fives before they lock them in a basement full of cow manure as a hazing ritual.

Dude needs to learn how to tie a tie if he thinks he can get the cashmoney. That's just sloppy.

Going to wikipedia, they claim that, worldwide, the average prison sentence for rape is 11.8 years. The short sentences have way more to do with being minors than about the normal, adult, sentences for the crime. Agree or disagree, but it's a very important detail.

This is Gawker, so: Florida? Yep. Florida.

Ah, that makes sense in a particular way since being on the registry is essentially a success-killer in any sort of measure of economic/cultural standard.

I'm always so hesitant to leap to the negative context.

The telling bit is that the subject of Letter One doesn't want to be matched. Endstop. You, on the other hand, should be getting matched roughly 2.8 times a day because that's what you want.

I'm no lawyer, but to my understanding I suspect that if he "virtually" crossed state lines (if he were in one state—KY, and the target is in another—OH) it becomes a Federal case.

It's the difference between sentencing for minors and adults, in part. But the sentiment certainly has it's won legs when you look at comparable situations for adults. In addition, these kids are on the Sex Offender list (right?), which (one can argue) is a harsher, lifelong punishment.

Honestly, being able to make jokes about things like sex/sexuality (within reason) is far more "mature" than the other extreme of repression.