I appreciate the advice but that...doesn't exactly help. I'll add "don't have any passions" to the list. At least since it's so rare (like you said) there will be a lot of women out there in a similar position who just want to binge-watch Orange is the New Black.

After a couple of teenage years spent trying to convince anorexic girls that they weren't fat I no longer tell people how to feel about their own bodies, so I just nod and change the subject when I can.

Laurence Fishburne in Hannibal?

Yeah, I know a guy who is 6 foot tall who worries that he is too short. When society puts such a massive emphasis on a particular trait (slimness for women, height for men) then it's not just the people who don't qualify who are affected, everyone gets to feel shitty about themselves. I mean you only mention average…

I finally decided to do this, because I realised I was so afraid of women eventually finding out that I had been "economical with the truth" that I wasn't messaging them back in the first place, or inititiating contact. Not mentioning certain things on my profile in order to make myself sound better was defeating the…

Not totally surprised at this, horse owners/riders seem to think it's totally fine to let their animals shit in public places and not clean it up. At least the majority of dog owners seem to clean up after themselves, but I have literally never seen someone with a horse do so.

Heh, reminds me of kids getting round my school's filter by looking at the thumbnails on google image search.

You acknowledged that what you were saying was wrong in your own post, so I don't know why I bothered to engage with you. Lesson learned.

Which other "little guys" were you specifically referring to then? And if you were being specific, how was your statement sizeist etc?

Uhuh. Of course your original post didn't say "Kanye", it said "little guys". Not to mention the fact that you acknowledged saying it was wrong. So why not be specific first time around, instead of being insulting to a whole load of people?

If you knew it was all those things then why did you say it? Or do you just not care that short people (of both sexes) will read it and feel hurt?

See my other reply to Greenteaparty, but in short the implication is still that Trayvon Martin had a hand in his own death because he didn't dress appropriately for the climate.

The fact that you are even bringing this up in this context is making it very difficult to give you the benefit of the doubt. If you are so interested in this subject why bring it up in the context of a lot of people grieving over the death of the teenager? The implication of you even asking the question is that if…

You don't see why even bringing up this topic has elements of victim-blaming to it? I'll give you an example that might help you though. Jezebel reported on a survey which found that 99% of Egyptian women had experienced sexual street harrasment, with 90% of it being physical in some way. Do you think those women were…

I think your point about the racism about foreigners is valid. It's an extremely common tactic for governments to blame immigrants for crime while ignoring the vast amounts of home grown crime that exists. We in the west love to do this (do you get news stories about eastern-european pickpockets in Ireland like we do…

No probs.

Truth, but even then you aren't safe:

You can use adblock plus to block individual images. Just install it, then next time you open firefox (or whatever) right click on the image you want to block and you should have the option. That's what I do with pictures of spiders, especially when some colossal douche decides to have a spider as their avatar.

My worst memories from school don't involved being bullied, or seeing it happen, but seeing teachers see it happen and then do nothing. So thank you for doing what you do.

I wonder if perhaps the disconnect here is in differentiating between "happy" and "happier than average". I knew so few kids at school who I would truly have called "happy", and so many miserable kids who were bullied, or miserable for other reasons, that it really wouldn't surprise me if bullies had happiness equal…