With January Jones among others. God why do I know this?

What’s Dietrich got to do with it? Marlene stayed married to her husband Rudi for 50 years, though after just two years,their relationship became more like brother and sister; she bought a California ranch for Rudi and his mistress (that word trivializes the woman who was really his 2nd wife) and she had a series of…

I chose a strapless dress for my wedding, so it wasn’t a matter of fitting my fat ass in the dress (I bought one that fit), but wanting my arms to look toned. So incorporating some light weight trading was a no-brained.

I agree; I don’t understand why it’s bad or “arcane” to provide useful tips to people who want to get in shape for their wedding. I don’t understand the slam-fest against any article specifically written to help women get healthy, especially given the billion-dollar a year cost of obesity-related illnesses (https://www…

I’m not a fitness expert, but this sure sounds a lot like spot reduction or targetted weight loss, which is a proven myth.

Exactly! And the tips aren’t “arcane”. There is some really good stuff in there about lifting weights and doing burpees.

I don’t understand why it has to be negative to encourage women to weight train for aesthetics - there’s demonstrable health benefits and it can raise your metabolism.

Eh, I was expecting worse. Targeted weight loss doesn’t work, but targeted toning does which is what the article is giving advice about.

My Aunt has 3 sons. The sign in their bathroom:

“Please be neat and wipe the seat” is both better AND worse than what my mom had: “Please be a sweetie and wipe the seatie.” For a decade, the word ‘seatie’ bothered the hell out of me.

So much to choose from in that excerpt.

Who apparently DIED IN THEIR BASEMENT WHAT?

I never thought I could empathize with this geisha bot, but honestly, her being sad over the one caretaker in her life who presumably did her job and, you know, maybe cared anything about her? Yeah.

Also:

At their synagogue, at least a few people began referring to Ivanka, the first Jewish member of an American First Family, by a new nickname, that of a savior. Grisham confirms that they called her Esther, after the beautiful Jewish wife of a Persian king who convinced him to cancel an order to annihilate the Jews.

Ivanka could not believe her father was not only idolizing an airhead heiress caught blowing a guy on a night-vision video but encouraging her to follow Paris’s lead. (Speaking from the White House, [press secretary Stephanie] Grisham says, “This is untrue and is disgusting.”)

Having actually worn them for many years for their original design intent - to increase traction on a sloshy boat deck, which Sperrys and a handful of other brands do indeed significantly help with - it will be very difficult for me not to laugh if someone slips and goes flying with one of the fashion adaptations.

“She’s a frum Donatella Versace, her platinum hair parted severely down the middle, clad in increasingly conservative floor-length dresses, with an uncanny-valley beauty that’s the inverse of her father’s slack meat sack, and speaking in the ever-huskier whisper of a phone-sex operator who went to boarding school.”

I generally enjoy Dan Savage but he can be a dick. Sounds like this was one of those moments.

“Kinrgy.”