Not to diminish how annoying it must be for plus-sized women to find clothing that fits well and is flattering, but I'd be curious how those numbers would compare with those obtained from a survey of straight-sized women, which would probably be lower, but still pretty high. Given all the subtle differences in our…

But what if you have to get off your bike quickly because someone cuts you off or there's an obstruction? I can understand that actually pedaling in heels would be easy, but having to get off your bike urgently sounds more dangerous than if you're wearing flats or sneakers.

Haha, if you knew me you'd know how ridiculous your conclusion is. I'm used to seeing a lot of angry posts about female body standards here, so I thought yours was just par for the course. I caught the sarcasm, but the tone (which is difficult to judge in a post) seemed angry to me, not facetious.

I'm not buying into the idea that we should have any formula to help determine how bad we should feel about ourselves. I was simply addressing the fact that when we're arguing one feminist point, we shouldn't simultaneously be weakening another. You could say that 90% is rounded up to the nearest 10%, so maybe it's…

It is a weird concept, and the result looks strange. But the thing that jumped out at me was "the other 90% of their bodies" for a completely different feminist reason. When Barbie said years ago that math was hard, it perpetuated the stereotype of math-challenged women - who, by extension, were unsuited to careers in…

I dunno, I think we're just coming from different places. I wouldn't wear athletic clothing if I'm walking or biking for transportation, but I also wouldn't worry about looking like a "lady". I like to walk fast and I never wear heels when I walk, even if I'll be wearing them once I reach my destination. So the idea…

Ideally, we'd be doing both at the same time. I mean, if we're on a bike anyway, why not get some decent exercise out of it?

You're conflating "lady" with "woman". The article isn't saying you need to follow their tips to look like a woman - just to look like a lady, ie. "ladylike". It's a dumb idea, nonetheless: who wants to have to worry about looking a certain way while exercising? It's the perfect recipe for dialing back our workouts.…

The heels are ridiculous. What if they have to run after someone? There's nothing feminist about wearing clothing that interferes with the quality of their on-the-job performance. These can't possibly be actual policewomen.

I think they only look similar in size to the other models because there is so much more variation in women's body sizes now than there was then. So they would have been more sensitive to smaller variations than we are today. Even if there were women with 56-inch bust-lines, they would have been rare enough that they…

Seriously? Her smile is so charming!

Wow. Sure, I work for the company, otherwise why would I care about businesses and people being treated unfairly? I mean, the only reason I could possibly care about stuff is if it affects me personally. But, no, actually I don't. And I don't own a restaurant either. I'm just disgusted that people can be so eager to…

She could also have driven past the exit, crossed over into the right lane, and stopped on the shoulder on the highway.

No, there was absolutely a shoulder. Shoulders are always to the right. That little space next to the concrete wall is not the shoulder. She stopped beside an exit ramp, which has a shoulder to the right (as does the highway before and after the exit ramp). She'd have to have taken the exit and pulled over on the…

No, she didn't pull her car over on to the shoulder. She moved it partially out of the lane so that less than half of it was in a small buffer space on the left - not the shoulder, which is only ever on the right, and the only place it's legal to stop.

No, "shoulder" is absolutely the right word, which I used correctly. You said there was no shoulder. That is incorrect. It doesn't matter that she pulled her car to the left - there is no shoulder there and that's not where you're supposed to pull over.

You seem to be trying to make a case that even though she pulled…

Nope, sorry, not naive and not "believing" that excuse - just not jumping to any conclusions. You're painting this as more binary than it is - ie. either you believe the excuse or you think they're lying - without leaving any middle ground for the actual reality, which is that there's not enough information to know…

Shoulders are on the right, not the left, so pulling over as far as possible to the left would still leave most of her car in the lane. There is a shoulder all along that highway - on the right. The accident happened next to a turn-off for an exit and there's a shoulder next to that. So if she had time to take the…

"is that murder too?" You are begging the question. This was not murder either - read the article. She was convicted of "criminal negligence causing death and two counts of dangerous driving causing death." Not murder.

There are shoulders on highways. She could have pulled her car over before attempting to rescue the ducks.