I tried to get it to figure out that I'm pregnant, but it did not. Good thing I already knew!

I can't tell you how many women I've had the following sort of conversation with:

It's different every year. The effectiveness range is HUGE and we can't predict how well any year's vaccine will work at protecting that year's flu season at the start of the season. It is very frustrating—but the vaccine is really the best we have going for the general population. The more people wash their hands and…

Yeah, I got some for prophylaxis during H1N1 because I was pregnant and we thought I'd been exposed. I had such a terrible reaction to it—throwing up everything that passed my lips, liquid or solid—that I just couldn't continue. It was horrible. You always have to weigh the costs and the benefits of any medication.

Literally the first article that came up when I searched "oseltamivir effectiveness" - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11176912

I'm pretty sure there's not a gene for being offended properly which you inherited through your Native American ancestry, thereby making you an authority on when any Native American should be offended by something. This is about culture and life experience, not just blood.

Oooh burn, you called him a girl! And not just a girl, and unfeminine one, which is the GROSSEST! It's so embarrassing to be called a girl, right?

I think they're more talking about how some people buy a new Coach bag every year for $500 or something. They don't need a new one because it wore out, they need a new one because it's not fashionable anymore. I think there's a happy medium where you can find quality stuff that's worth it because it will last, not…

That's not the impression I got from the article at all. I thought they were trying to get at how the skinnier a woman is, the more she is often seen as attractive even to the point of ridiculousness—and that this point is completely separate from WHY people develop anorexia. The article didn't come from the woman's…

...Slow news day? No present-day magazines lying around with gender normative ads to critique? ARE YOU A TIME TRAVELER?

Yeah, I don't really see anything here that Republicans don't say about Democrats all the time, regardless of gender. The condescension is pretty much ever-present (often on both sides). Sigh.

Yeah, I totally get the whole "needing a job" thing! It's depressing but true that we'll be judged so significantly on first impressions and appearance. I don't think job interviews are really a place to take fashion risks, anyway—but it definitely depends on the industry you want to work in. If you're going into…

BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

I kinda see fashion differently. I started looking at fashion as a type of art and expression, just like drawing or writing or sculpting. That way, if I don't "make it work" one day, it's just a day when I didn't do a drawing or work on my book or something. It's ok—I don't have to create art every day.

COLORED JEANS YESSS!

Granted, I cannot and will never shop at high-end stores, but I really like a lot of Target's plus-size clothes. I also like that their plus-size clothes don't come in smaller sizes, because some of it is really super cute and I think some smaller-sized women might be jealous of those clothes, which is not usually…

In my head I see that scene from Zoolander where Will Ferrel is like, "I feel like I'm taking crazy pills!"

If it's a female story about a perpetual victim with no other interests or thoughts other than a guy, to the point of being suicidal when he leaves her, I say get that story the hell away from all girls. They DO NOT need such stories.

I've gotten my hopes up before and I've been burned... so, nope. I'm not gonna get excited until we see at least, let's say, ten to fifteen years of solid research showing any effectiveness with "no" side effects (because vaccines always have the potential to create side effects, regardless of the pathogen). Also,…

Dude I know, reading about girls is gross! Girls don't go through any experiences in the Hunger Games that boys can relate to! Everyone else already jumped on this one, so I don't need to go on.