The school district should take a little more responsibility in this case instead of pinning it all on this lady. They should have assigned this kid to a smaller bus with a matron to assist with problematic behaviors instead of the driver doing it. This situation was dangerous for all parties involved even the other…

This exactly.

yeah seriously if they were going to insult my programming lady brain with girly crap, it should have at least been MAC or Clinique. :-D

Never take a random, cheap, free flash drive.

Offend may too strong of a word, but this should probably give a person pause. That this was an event for coders should have dictated the swag, not the fact that the coders were women. Even though it was probably not the intention, the choice of gift seems belittling. Why not give something related to technology or -…

You can definitely find kids' clothes that aren't super gendered, but I have noticed that the cheaper the clothes are, the likelier they are to be gendered (at least here in the Northeast—that might not be the case elsewhere). And that's . . . pretty interesting. It says something about the perceived tastes of people…

I just read this referenced article this morning as well ... and one of the things I found interesting was that those overalls and sneakers were the clothes she wore in off the street. Those were *her* clothes, not ones picked by a stylist or the ad agency.

I'll bet almost anything that the aggressive segmentation of the toy market by gender is analogous to the sort of thing that happened with beauty products. Making it so that a woman can't use a MAN'S deodorant or soap (it's not PH balanced for women because that is totally not a made up thing) means you sell twice as…

What the hell do you get out of this?

Are you really just swanning around the internet congratulating yourself on being both thin and a complete asshole? Why??

Man, you suck.

No offense, but your stated measurement DON'T make you a size 12 in anything but vanity sized clothing. My measurements are 38-30-44 and I'm a size 14/16. I'm 5'4 as well. You are obese. I am obese. It's the truth, and it's just a descriptor. Stop trying to convince a world of strangers how confident you are and…

I guess we have different definitions—or more likely, broader ranges—of how we define or picture those terms. I like to watch women's Olympic weightlifting, etc., which is a prime example of woman can carry extra weight while they are clearly athletic, and a muscular body generally strikes me as one that is healthy. …

I don't see you picture, but here's this one:

This woman has a measured body fat percentage of 28%. She self reported that she is 5'7" and weighs 153 pounds. I would be surprised to see you measure the same percentage.

You are one of the reasons teenagers kill themselves. But hey, at least your not bored, amirite?

I'm slightly ashamed to have read this tiresomely predictable thread so far down, but describing OP's body as healthy and athletic looking is just straight up sycophancy. She looks fine, but it's this insistence on going so far the other way that creates the behaviour of this thread's antagonist.

BMI has been abused and poorly explained to and among laypeople. Thresholds for BMI are like thresholds for any other medical measurement. Cut offs are based on population studies. So just like you aren't magically healthy at a blood pressure of 139/89 but horribly sick at 140/90, you aren't the picture of health at a…

You're a beautiful woman and a talented seamstress, and I'm sorry that douchecanoes hijacked this thread. But I have to confess that I don't fully understand your point. I don't know what you want from medicine (from me and all my colleagues) that relates directly to this article. That the original researchers not use…

Maybe in the US people think of obese as meaning "really huge", but in other countries we don't. Maybe I missed your point because it seems so obvious. But this is an article about how being a certain weight means that a measured dosage is insufficient, and the author of this post points out that many Americans are…

I don't care if you're a woman or a man. Either way, you're an asshole. Being skinny won't make you a good person.