1. Size 18 is not "unusual". The point is it's totally usual, and not catering to women that wear larger sizes than 12 (or really 8, according to former employees) is discriminating against many, many, many women.

I'm loving all the gray comments who read this and managed to take away the idea that Laura feels she has a "right" to demand Lululemon pants in her size, and that they are "obligated" to offer them to her. Or suggest that she just go elsewhere with her money, which is what she very explicitly said she already does.

The teeth thing is ENTIRELY a class thing. You know who doesn't have crooked, janky teeth? People who could afford the dentist and braces. Why don't people just come out and say "I will not date people who grew up poor because eww".

Congrats, your "non-type type" is based on standardized ideals of beauty for men, and a magical stress free unicorn person.

I love everything about this whole thread.

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I'm extremely torn about quinoa and its popularity here. Because vegans and health-food enthusiasts in first-world countries like the US are now all googly-eyed over quinoa, the Bolivians who used to eat it in the first place as a cheap, healthy source of nutrition can now no longer afford it and have to turn to other…