You know, it's things like this that bug me about becoming a teacher, because it seems like the education system is more about control than education. Over half of the rules enforced often feel arbitrary for the sake of controlling children and teaching them that they do not control anything. And we wonder why kids…

So what I'm getting from this is a lot how I was raised — whatever you are saying, think about how it will make someone feel. If you say something to deliberately be mean or insulting or hurt feelings, that's not okay. For my parents this also included "I hate you," and the words "stupid," "ugly," "fat," and the like…

Oh my god. This was me! But — she's so much cuter than I was! I was someone's evilly literate twin! Bwah ha ha!

Totally not the place to have this discussion, but CAN SHE JUST DIE ALREADY?

I think I remember Kate Winslet saying that she's not doing Botox or plastic surgery on her face because that means that when she gets old, she'll get all the awesome roles that Helen Mirren and Judi Dench get now — her face will be full of expression and life, she'll have these wonderful expressive wrinkles, and…

You know, this makes me really appreciate my doctor, who is the most awesome practitioner I've ever found. When I go in for checkups, he reviews everything with me, checks my bloodwork, and then usually says, "So, you know you've put on some weight in the past year / lost some weight in the past year, right?"

Huh. I've only ever used this term to describe men. To be honest I've only ever heard it used to describe men.

I remember that! I remember also seeing a photo shoot that Alison Brie and Gillian Jacobs did that was very lesbian/bondage overtoned, and being really kind of just offended, because it's like, "Hey, here's this identity we can put on to be sexy to men, because it's hot." We talk about it so much here, but it's such…

But I... my Fage, I ... I can't...give...it...up...

Right? I'd wear those suits, they're adorable, and I'm not plus size — which is AWESOME to be able to say because plus size clothes are so often just ugly. NO ONE wants to wear them. It's nice to see clothes on the plus-size side that everyone envies :)

These girls look like the most fun people to party with ever. Man. Chicks posed like "oh, we're having so much funnnn!" usually leaves me cold, but these girls look like they are a blast!

Which is so annoying, frankly, given the dominance of girl-on-girl fashion ads. So we're comfortable as long as the women are getting it on for our pleasure (we, being men, since it's obviously skewed for the male gaze), but when there are two men in the same ad together, we feel all icky?

Well, Benedict and Martin would make the shippers explode with joy, AND it would be hot, so...

Yep - someone else on this thread pointed out how much social standards have changed, and how much that affects the traditional rom-com structure.

Yeah, that was one of my gigantic problems with The Proposal.

I sometimes wonder if our economic and political situations don't have something to do with this. People's appetite for seeing well-off people end up happily ever after tanked around the time the economy did (plus the war, picking up speed). We flocked to irreverent humor instead - something to laugh about.

that's funny! The neuropathy isn't, but your reaction to your doctor :)

You can do it!

It's the en pointe, I believe.

It's worth it!