Maybe I’m missing something here, but what the fuck does keeping polygamy illegal do to prevent under age marriage and sexual assault? If marriage is illegal under a certain age, and sexual assault is always going to be illegal (well, on paper anyway, we all know how sexual assault is treated currently, during our…

I could handle her one-note-ness if she did it really well. It may not be my style, but I can applaud beautifully constructed and fitted clothes. There’s just no excuse for a poorly made collection on the last show when you have way more time to finish. Especially when you’re trying to break barriers and show the…

Buying side-by-side houses that are connected by tunnels and secret passages has been my ideal co-habitation scenario since childhood.

I once knew a cosmetic dentist that bought up the two houses on either side of him in a quiet, middle class neighborhood so that he could build weatherproof tunnels and turn them into guest houses.

Buy a whole block, connect all the houses with giant hamster tunnels.

Let me say right now that if I had the money I’d buy every damned house on my block for peace and quiet.

To avoid more reactions like yours?

You could have clicked the first link in your own quotation there, and found this:

can we agree that it’s a huge financial leap for companies to do this sort of thing? As much as I read about how badly women want options, they simply don’t vote with their wallets

Well, I could have just pointed out the economics. Since we can’t agree that yes, society does place disproportionate value on the conventionally attractive and always has, can we agree that it’s a huge financial leap for companies to do this sort of thing? As much as I read about how badly women want options, they…

When I was a teenager, I was looking at photos and complaining about how ugly I was, and my dad heard me. He often told my mom and sister and I we were beautiful, which I usually just brushed off with “you’re my dad, you have to say that!”

Bullshit. “Patriarchical beauty standard”. Just, no. Men and women are equally guilty of favoring the objectively beautiful; we have, except for that brief period of time when overweight connoted wealth and privilege, leaned toward the less fat. That’s just the way it is.

If the flowers had actually been hand-appliqued, I could see it in a funky Frida Kahlo sorta way. Not my style but I could see the appeal. But the hot glue construction when she had weeks to work on it and it was supposed to be the showpiece...just no.

Yes this was my problem with her collection too! It had so many fit issues that would have eliminated any other designer but she didn’t get dinged for because they wanted a plus-size designer to win.

Addendum: workout clothing in technical synthetics. Everything else, natural.

I don’t think he trashed her, I think he was honest. She’s not without talent but throughout the season she seemed to play the victim to get the wins. And I started out rooting for her, as someone who has been bullied and dismissed my whole life because of my size and my appearance. But I still don’t want to succeed…

1. Natural fabrics.

Not to be a wet blanket, but here's what I see when I see those pics above (all of whom are lovely) - they are plus size, but they all fit a very particular standard of "plus size." They are busty, with well defined waists, wider in the hips, tall; their weight mostly carries in their thighs, hips and butts. And…