I really feel this a lot. I was fat my entire life, and the favourite insult among my thinner siblings—one of whom struggles with disordered eating—was “At least I’m not fat.” My mom put me in a diet program for kids to lose weight, and it didn’t work. My grandmother, too, was obsessed with fad dieting and obsessed…

I swear, I’ve heard at least one instance of this happening to a woman who slept with two different men in a similar time frame, resulting in a pregnancy where the two eggs were fertilised by the two different fathers.

You just gave the definition of fraternal twins.

Now that all of this is coming out, I continue to side-eye the Nestor thing. It’s been bothering me all this time that this dude claims he adopted a teenager and just.........hid it for years? With all this new information, what do people think?

I have never watched this show, and so I know little about the relationship of Kourtney and Kim Kardashian. But seeing this clip, I can only imagine the number of times Kim has catastrophized something that, in the grand scheme of things, will affect her not at all. “There are people who are dying” is definitely the…

I would make the argument that, if the dishes are piling up like this to the point where anyone with working eyes see they obviously need to be cleaned, then yes, she shouldn’t have to ask.

I hope you don’t mind my gentle ask: why are you with someone who is insulted by polite requests to keep the space you live in together clean?

She also said Harry was the one filling her in. She had a primary source sitting right next to her, so I’m not sure what you assumed Google could have said that Harry didn’t. He was raised in the family and was shocked at some of their actions, including making him and Meghan unsafe by pulling security.

How you think google could have possibly prepared someone for the experience of being a Black royal, is what I’d like to know.

I thought on Jezebel of all places, people might actually understand the concept of respecting other cultures and their practices. But I get it - if it’s a WHITE culture that has an imperialist past - no. They don’t get any respect, and their traditions should be shot down.

Who is Meghan to dare to suggest her flower girls should not wear tights because it is no longer cool in Hollywood?

The particular allegations against Mia do lend credence to the defence that that Dylan’s mother planted the idea in her head though.

Yeah, when she mentioned an abusive relationship a few years back, I think a lot of us figured it was Manson due to both the timeline and the age difference. Dita Von Teese divorced him and it was heavily implied she did so because he pursued Evan Rachel Wood while they were married, when Wood was 18.

There are many, many cis women in this world who naturally have higher levels of testosterone. Are they to take testosterone suppressants because this is an “unfair advantage”? Are we to monitor the levels of every athlete’s testosterone so they’re equal across the board? I assume the answer is “no we are not”,…

This was my question, as well. I think we’re so conditioned to teach children with a payment reward system that it actually can reinforce some bad behaviours. There are many, many adult men who will clean a bathroom and expect to be congratulated and rewarded for accomplishing this bare minimum chore, and it’s often…

It just seems utterly bizarre to me to die on this particular hill. Even if they stopped assigning Moby Dick and The Scarlet Letter, it’s not as if people will stop reading it. And even if they did, who cares? There is a strange sentimental value society places on these specific books rather than embracing the…

I’ve always struggled to find Charles sympathetic (not necessarily in this situation, but in general), but the relative privilege of these three individuals aside, it’s difficult for me not to wince at the situation they all found themselves in. Charles and Camilla were quite clearly in love and well-matched, but the…

I’m not a lawyer, so someone can feel free to correct me, but I believe that it doesn’t qualify for a defamation case because it’s not being presented as fact. Suing over a fictionalised version of someone’s life is about as enforceable as suing over satire.

Superb article! I never read Cartland myself, but I’ve always been fascinated by her and Heyer and their enduring legacy in romance. Despite being firmly in an era where sex and more raw language is frequent in romance (and has been for years), it’s always interesting to see that these conversations on purity, sex,…

I don’t know, but a lot of Kresley Cole’s fans are worried about her. Aside from the delay in release dates, she hasn’t updated her social media for over a year. She’s friends with Gena Showalter, who has said (as of October) the reason for Cole’s absence is personal so she can’t really give details. So I’m guessing…