My husband and I had to attend a Catholic "engaged encounter" before a priest would marry us. We found the whole thing contrived and uncomfortable. We filled out the forms, broke off for pairs discussions, really tried to make a go of it. We even brought a pan of brownies for the snack table.

@Bullette: I thought it was a lump of silicone.

Those are some fugly dresses. I am not feeling the sort-of-lingerie dress + sandal-boot thing.

@sybann: Tip it!

And aspiring writers across the country poured themselves an arsenic cocktail.

My, what a level-headed young man.

The only proper response to this is,"Kiss my grits!"

I do appreciate any efforts to diversify the models we see in magazines, but does anyone just wish that that sentence read: "Meet the woman (or women) behind the plus-size revolution"?

@pursedangler: Ha! Of course.

Then who, I ask you, is buying all that damn Cialis I keep seeing on the teevee?

@andonthatnote: Yes! That is inspirational to me. I am still working very hard to become one of those women "who don't want to lose weight." For the majority of my life, I did not know that was an option.

I own a pair of those cowgirl rain boots. I don't know how to feel about seeing something from my closet in a feature I usually laugh at.

@PintoBeans: Ha! This is excellent. All it needs is a few more shouty capitals, and far more misspellings.

Yep. Slut-shaming is completely wrong. Stupid-shaming, however, is snark I can believe in.

@girly: He has been known, on occasion, to emit large clouds of methane from his mouth.

I am trying to figure out a way this could have been taken completely out of context. Failing. Good lord.

Apologies if this is a stupid question, but how old is Paris Hilton? Her home looks like my five-year-old daughter's idea of a princess palace.

Paris Hilton: She wasn't born. She was sculpted.

@AvgElitist: Unfortunately, I can tell you from experience. Depression, disordered eating, and lots of therapy to combat both.