The one thing I’d like to mention is that MANY other drugs have been used off-label to curb appetites. Sometimes this is with the participation of the provider, sometimes not. I guess it is (or was) exceedingly easy to fake symptoms of ADHD to obtain Adderall for weight loss. Models have been using nicotine to curb hu…

Frankly, I can’t think of anyone more deserving of losing all of their hair by age 36.

I really feel we’re in the dark days of obesity medicine. I’m obese. I have been since I was four years old. I put myself on my first diet: I was 7. I was in a medically supervised weight management program at 11. Weight Watchers at 14. Atkins at 15. I have never known a conscious moment in which food and my body were…

Is there a complicated German word for “onion of stupidity”? Because I think it would get a lot of use in These Our Modern Times.

“My client has retained the same team as Johnny Depp. You can take the settlement or you can get the Amber Heard treatment, complete with social media botfarm blitz and enough screeching incels to make GamerGate look like a love-in, feeding into a legacy-media outreach that’ll make anyone over 50 think you’re poison…

I have no idea what to make of this. There are way too many variables.

Female public figures end up in this trap not just with body positivity, but with feminism and almost any cause they support. Suddenly you have to be little miss everything we need at once or else it’s fuck you, what have you ever done to help anyone besides yourself, why aren’t you performatively championing,…

That’s such an unbelievably fucked up thing to tell men to do! Every person who is responsible for dispensing that advice should be fired. Also, if I ever take hostages, I know the judge I’m sending the videos to to convince everyone they are being treated well.

Consent being given after is pretty sketchy. If you’re going down this route to document consent, then it has to be before and layout some sort of boundaries (ie multiple partners, rough play etc). With a follow up after. Ideally an additional consent recorded during.

After sex alone doesn’t mean much. If you are…

In Canada Much Music used to air a show at midnight called Too Much For Much.

As an older person who grew up watching MTV and knows exactly what was aired then, the pearl clutching about videos you have to actively seek out moreso than ever if you want to see them is fascinating.

I am really not a big fan of Sam Smith, personally, but the hate they get is definitely a headscratcher. Are folks…

Beyonce has always been and always will be a capitalist. If you thought she cared about social justice issues, it’s only because it was part of her “brand” that could make her money. It was never, ever because she cared. Being a feminist and anti-racist are a means to a very wealthy end for her. 

As always, it depends. For example, I’d find it really difficult to watch The Cosby Show now knowing about Bill Cosby being a serial rapist (and Phylicia Rashad - who was transcendent as Claire Huxtable - supporting him).

*This*. I live in the Welsh valleys. I’m the 60s, we had shiny new luxury flats built, and a gaggle of modern housing. Then came the recession. The folks with money moved out, because they could afford to. The council took over the biggest apartment block and turned it into a bail hostel. My personal experience of…

If you want my opinion on “luxury” condos, here it is: they’re luxury as long as the services are maintained. They’re luxury as long as the gym memberships are paid, the building fees are paid, the servants are paid - and don’t you kid yourself into thinking there won’t be servants. Maybe they’ll take a leaf out of…

I continue to be deeply disappointed by Rhianna’s response. She of all people should have been supporting Megan Thee Stallion here. Drake and Minaj are garbage people independent of this, so it’s not surprising that they’d have a bad take. Additionally, I try to avoid thinking about anyone with the last names Jenner…

Fully appreciate I may be in some small minority here, but am I the only one who raised an eyebrow at Austin Butler being described as “aggressively handsome”? I mean, I wouldn’t call him ugly, but if he was in a room full of other dudes there’s no way he would catch my eye. He’s incredibly average looking.

The average person, seemingly, is just kind of like this.

And even bariatric surgery has mixed results long-term. Within ten years, 25% of bariatric surgery patients regain all the weight they initially lost. Moreover, 20% of patients fail to achieve “significant weight loss” (quantified as loss of more than 50% of bodyweight) after bariatric surgery.

Don’t forget that Pitt also tried to claim that he stood up to Harvey Weinstein, but then went on to make two very good movies with Weinstein and kept quiet about all the sexual harassment, assault, and other abuse.