Thing is, though, I wouldn’t feel “glee” if they weren’t wearing heels/visibly straining to be taller than I am. There are plenty of short people I find deeply intimidating; none of them, however, seem to give two shits that other people are taller than them, let alone hobble themselves out of insecurity/vanity. I’m…

I’ve never really understood the “heels = power” line of reasoning. They physically hobble the user, and make her look like she’s insecure about her height and the way her legs look.

And guys, apparently!

I’m 5’11”, very fit, and have never struggled to put a bag into an overhead bin in my life... and I still get guys just grabbing my bag and hoisting it up or yanking it out without even asking me if I need help, let alone me asking them. (Occasionally this leads to lolarity when they can’t actually lift it.) I can’t…

How aggressive were you about it? I got dates in Japan when I lived there, but I found that you absolutely had to be the one to make the first move. You can’t expect them to be the ones to hit on you.

No A cup, eh. I cannot approve of a sports bra that doesn’t come in my size for Best Sports Bra. Fail.

No A cup, eh. I cannot approve of a sports bra that doesn’t come in my size for Best Sports Bra. Fail.

I don't know, it looks a little ridiculous, but I suppose if, like knitting, after it's been "reclaimed" the hipster men start doing it too, I'd be okay with it. Why not. Then it's just an impractical display of prowess rather than hearkening back to a sexist, sex-phobic past, like swimming butterfly rather than…

I’m not really sure you’re going to get too many people defending it; it’s more of a hypothetical “oh we shouldn’t shame people for being naturally thin” ideal than something that many people have experience with in practice.

I was at 16.8 this time last year while I was doing some pretty rigorous athletic training (I’ve since toned down the cardio and upped the strength training and I’m back up to 18.5). I’ve been thin almost my entire life, but I’ve also been an avid fitness lover my entire life.

Yeah, this is sexy girl in implausible armor done right. She's not arched backwards to a spine-breaking degree to show off her ass and tits at the same time, she's not making an o-face at the viewer, she has a waist wide enough to hold all of her internal organs. In other words, she's not exploitative or insulting to…

weights strapped around their stomach to make sure they don't rise to the surface (enough to instill panic in just about any person, I'd think

Vancouver Island high five!

As a Canadian, I don't know how to feel about that one. I'm all for an acknowledgement of colonization and First Nations' rights, but it's not like I have another "native land," you know? If this isn't it, then what is? If there was a lot of call for it among First Nations groups, I'd be down with it, though.

We sang "in all of us command" in my high school over a decade ago. That said, it's true that our Parliament is full of mouldering dinosaurs, so I don't have much faith this will succeed either.

That's true, but that's slowly changing. I can't see what it does ever changing, though, even so. It's too profitable. All I can imagine will change is that we'll start to see men and boys start to pick their bodies apart to a degree even closer to what women do now.

Hahaha oh man. Sorry dude, but it's not about your boner. 99% of the body shaming/body praise I've ever received or seen dished out to others has been from other women, not men. Men aren't the one's policing women into fatless (but with huge fake boobs and ass, these days) modern trend. It's a) advertising, and b)…

As a female gamer, I can't really be bothered by this, because I've seen the same (or worse) depicted as happening to Dante from DMC or Chris Redfield from RE or heck even the Soap from CoD in (doujinshi) porn by women, for women. This is just a fantasy people get off to. I sincerely doubt it's going to encourage some…

Isn't this something most brides just do before their wedding, usually? I was the only one I know who didn't do some kind of diet/exercise regimen, and that was because I 1) am already a gym rat, and 2) eloped. One of my close friends lost over 70lbs in the year before her wedding through some pretty hardcore training…

The problem with this line of thinking is that the opposite is also true: my parents had three kids in rapid succession in their early 20s, and _that_ is something they tell me they came to regret. They didn't have that time to be free and explore like most people do, and they did irrevocable damage (especially my…

Doesn't look worse than the nest of spiderlegs crawling out of her eyes, though.