I hope it's ok to put in my $0.02.

American men sometimes have strange demands

Persons *I* deem to be bad? The former Libyan Intelligence chief, The Bahrain governemnt, Enron?? Pretty much the whole world deems these people and organizations to be "bad". They too have a right to be legally represented, but a defense attorney who represents clients like these shouldn't be dubbed as a heroic human…

Oh my god thank you. She married one of the most famous people in the world, in a blitzkrieg of staged publicity, and even changed her last name to his. None of this is what one does if one wants to maintain one's anonymity and professional seriousness.

By marrying Clooney, she would have become the subject of media interest no matter what she did; however, she definitely courted this attention by staging that enormous celebrity wedding. You cannot close down a city for the weekend, ride around in a boat for the express purpose of being photographed by paparazzi in…

So I still have this nasty respiratory infection that is bacterial. I am coughing up blood and bile-colored nasties, and blowing blood out of my raw nose. I am almost out of codeine cough syrup and have resorted to Polish cough syrup: strong vodka, lemon juice, and honey that's been microwaved. My color is horrible, I…

LOOK AT MY SPOONING PUPPIES YOU GUYS!!

Yes, it's especially frustrating for child victims because unless there are responsible adults in their life that discover the abuse and do something about it, it's not like the child has the wherewithal to advocate for themselves in the manner and to the degree that is necessary to bring charges, let alone get a…

or have the personal strength or literal safety to do something about it until later.

It's incredibly bizarre, but yes, that compartmentalization is definitely a thing in people's heads. You can be fat, OR you can be pretty; you can be pretty, OR you can have a great personality; you can be fat, but if you get laid, it's such a surprise and a novelty that we all have to make jokes about it! And the…

What achievements? I wonder if they see any achievements at all. My grandmother (whose calls I no longer answer) has something to say about my weight every single time she talks to me. I get long dissertations about how thin my cousins are and how wonderful it is that they are thin etc... And has she ever…

hi I'm plain in feature and certainly overweight, but I sell monogrammed coffee thermoses!!!

Still a lesser achievement than if she'd had big tits on a small frame though.

Not only that but she claimed she had no trouble attracting men with her plainness and her weight. Miraculous.

I know! It's like...somehow an unfuckable woman did something important. Weird.

It also plays into something drilled into too many plain, overweight folk that you must compensate your looks by wowing them with personality ie wit and charm. Reading that line on the obit made me think of this and wonder if that was drilled into her. This drilling comes.from environment, home, movies, books and tv.…

See this is what goes through my head every time I have a job interview and they can't get me out of their offices fast enough. It's not my qualifications, they love those, that's what got me in the door. It is my appearance, and they just can't reconcile fatter (older) woman with competent person. So they'll hire a…

how dare you speak of Aussie eye candy and not mention The Jackman.

You mean even women who are very accomplished are judged more on their looks than on their accomplishments?

You know what else we could do to encourage regular Pap smears? Just talk openly about vaginas and cervixes and female sexual health and not shroud it in metaphors.