The teacher is 100% wrong, whether the kid liked it or not is irrelevant (in that regard anyway). Frankly, if you're an adult teacher and you can't stand your ground against middle school kids' peer pressure, you're probably in the wrong profession. However, having said that, I highly doubt this kid was "terrified." I…
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I've never liked the way overweight people (read: women) were depicted in Disney movies. In Aladdin there is a scene where he's running from the guards after stealing some food, and he is singing a song and he gets caught by this big fat lady and she says "Still I think he's rather tasty" and of course Aladdin can't…
Let me get this straight. This woman wants MORE readers to read her books, so she decided to write an open letter on the internet - where everyone is all the time - on one of the most widely read (and widely shared and linked to) news websites in the world, to one of the most widely beloved authors there is, and she…
I have struggled with my weight my whole life. And when I say "weight" I don't mean 20, 50, or even 100 lbs. overweight. I mean "morbid obesity" (God I hate that phrase). The summer between elementary school and junior high, my mother sat me down and told me, in no uncertain terms, that if I didn't lose weight, I'd…
A word like "baby" that ends in Y can't easily be written plurally like "babys" because a "ys" has a sound like "iss" such as in "cyst." So that's where the "ies" comes in. However, "monkey" ends in "ey" not just "y" and "eys" (like in monkeys or honeys) doesn't cause a problem.
The problem with Ms. Riley’s assessment (and all of her brain functioning to date) is that she’s subscribing to the long-obsolete concept of men=hounds, women=nuns. Women aren’t “raising their price” because we aren’t credenzas, not because we’re afraid if we hold out on sex our penis-haver will seek sex elsewhere. I…
I don't think she means "rape" in the sexual sense. Because if you listen to all the lines she says before that one, she's talking about how she wants nothing to do with all these low class men. I think she means "rape" in the sense where she's like destroying them; she's blowing them away. Also, that line would make…
Lena Dunham's reality may differ only slightly from Hannah Horvath's reality, but they are quite similar (she's admitted) because she is doing all a writer CAN do, write what she knows. Wouldn't you rather her write a well-written, funny, realistic view of her reality, than try to create diverse characters but fail…
I don't think she's REALLY trying to be seen as an adult. I think she's trying to be hyper-sexual so that she can be sexualized along with her female peers in Hollywood. No one really thinks MC is "hot" because she's got a man voice and looks like a weird lanky duck. But I don't think she knows that; in her mind the…
I found this article to be all kinds of horrible. So basically the author is saying that certain trends belong to specific cultures or races and white people shouldn't be using them? That assumption is even more out of line that the author's mistaken premise. Miley Cyrus is not trying bring down black people by taking…
Call me crazy but I definitely think context is important. I live in NY. Queens, born & raised. And there are A LOT of white people (I’m white, if that matters) who say “nigga” when referring to like, any guy or something. NO ONE says “nigger” which is the bad word. But if you’re talking to your girlfriend and she’s…
My open letter to Geoffrey Miller.
I don't think the Lawson/Saatchi debacle is any of our business. I wouldn't like it if one or several people were using my marital problems - regardless of their severity - as a soapbox to combat domestic violence. Not saying that there shouldn't BE a soapbox to combat domestic violence; I'm just saying that if I was…
As an obese person, I am offended. As an obese person who graduated cum laude in 2007 and got my MA in 2009 and was then rejected by NYU when I applied for my PhD in English, I am more than offended.
To make a long story short, about 3 years ago I very impulsively moved from NY to Las Vegas to move in with my friend. After about a day I realized it was a hasty decision and decided to move back home. We had driven down, and my friend had gone back to work. I don't have my license. How do I get home? I could NEVER…
But I do care. I want so desperately to be like Ms. Beck and be able to say, confidently and without hesitation, that I too don't care. But the thing is that I care sooooo much. And I always have. I feel as though my worth as a female is inextricably linked to my level of fuckability. And at 450 pounds, my level of…
I'm a very large gal myself, and that episode struck me as totally unrealistic. Even to me. I'm sorry to say that, but it's true. I'm not saying it's right or good, and I'm not saying that conventionally hot dudes SHOULDN'T fuck girls like LD, nor am I saying she doesn't DESERVE them to, I'm just saying how things are…
I'm sorry, but why does spending $60k on a purse make someone an asshole?