Saying that fat people need to "put down the cookies, stop complaining about a lack of plus sizes and go outside" isn't good advice, it's being an asshole.

• *I'm 5' and a size 4-6, and it's all relative. I've got a yucky tummy I don't like and I consider myself shamefully fat*

I wasn't thinking that before, but I'm thinking that now.

“Oh, there’s your date for tonight,” he would say to male members of his traveling crew when they spied a chunky lady on the street.

Funny, then, that the first thing "Double Down" brings to mind is that sandwich made with fried chicken in place of bread from KFC.

No, but I was that kid who made her own clothes for Barbie, and that's the kind of stuff I made (so they could go off on adventures in Africa, Asia, Australia...)

I don't think it sends a massive message, but I did think it was kind of funny and I get what he's saying about the princess machine. Also I liked some of the outfits. I was with him until Anne Frank.

what does modern feminism mean? I am in academia (a social science) and I don't even have a clue what this means. to be fair, i don't study anything related to gender. but is it possible that many women, especially those quoted above, are far removed from the rhetoric of "feminism" and their only contact with it is…

Looks like Apple Martin finally has something to wear for Picture Day.

I have a three-year-old and he has not dealt with bullying, at least not serious enough that I've heard about it. Peer groups are tough, man. I knew it would be the thorn in my child rearing. My biggest beef is the fucking gun thing. To start, I hate guns. And yet, my son comes home from school mock-shooting with…

I stopped at "fixes everything."

Oh, bless your sweet foolish heart. Take a deep breath, my love. As revealed above, I've never put a prawn or any other chitinous crustacean in anyone's draperies, so no need to descend into vapours.

My cousin Claire is essentially a brunette version of Gwyneth Paltrow, right down to the fat-shaming, macrobiotic monomania and $200 cashmere socks. She gives out mini boxes of All-Bran cereal to trick-or-treaters in her fabulously wealthy Toronto neighbourhood, I shit you not.

Lack of exposure. Most high schools don't teach about minstrely, so you are limited to those people that happened to encounter it in their college studies and had the necessary background to absorb it.

Eh. Maybe she's 4'11. It was a rhetorical point, I really don't think she was trying to define the upper bounds of acceptability universally.

What's really sad here is that the story here is no longer about this poor black kid who saved up hundreds of dollars at his job to go to an exclusive store and buy himself something really nice and then got harrassed, taken to jail and publicly humiliated because of his age and skin color, but it is now about…

I'm 41, Canadian (Toronto!), and I say Dude ALL the damn time! It's an exclaimation! Duuuuuude! A greeting! Dude! A goodbye! Dude! Workplace swearing! DUDE! Its a warning! Dude, no. It's an agreement! DUDE YES! It's the best word ever! DUDE!

I had to re-read your post there for a second... I see what you did there...

this is Jezebel's version of Perez Hilton bullying.

But she's not skinny so it's okay for her to be famous because only skinny girls can be boring and vanilla. (/sarcasm)