It's such a relief to know I'm not the only one who feels this way - I'm surrounded by old classmates all getting married and having kids just months later. Me, I got married and got an IUD. Mostly because I know for sure I don't want kids for at least 4 years, but then I swing back and forth like you, and so figured,…

Is your world always so black and white, filled with lack of reading comprehension skills?
That isn't even close to what anyone here has said. Other than you.

I honestly think you're projecting here. I'm Indian myself and I never saw anything troll-like about his/her post. You're an awful person for saying all this to him/her and a bully.

P.S. whoever that was who was calling you names, wow that was completely uncalled for and unproductive. I didn't get negativity like that from your post at all. He/she is probably projecting.

I'm very sorry you had to go through what you did, I have had an abusive father myself for many years, although it never…

I get what you mean, and I haven't done enough research into the matter to see if Jezebel is indeed painting India as filled with 'scary brown people' like you mentioned in another post, but I feel for the purpose of a proper analysis of a certain social group/culture etc, things need to be bordered out and a scope…

Aw someone needs to do a little more research and a little less horn-blowing. You're making a fool out of yourself with your lack of knowledge of the subject you're so callously dismissing. Move along, now.

I kinda see this as a push for a more secular India actually. The fact that they humanized deities (Hindu or not) also kinda brings down religion in general. On the flip side, it's like when Muslim fundamentals got incredibly offended when SouthPark wanted to use a figure of Mohammed in their cartoon, because he…

That's EXACTLY the point. The need to bring up the question "Now what?". Also if you bothered to look at the actual ads, you'd notice the tagline and the hotline number for Save Our Children, an organisation helping children and victims of domestic violence and sex trafficking.

I just watched that bunny pole dance for a whole 20minutes. I kid you not. How do I make this my desktop background for life???

They only mentioned those reported cases of assault against women. I can assure you, having family from there, that that number is miniscule compared to the truth.

I don't understand why there's always that one or two people who insist on comparing one good/bad issue with another in some other context. Problems aren't solved in big, sweeping movements, they're tackled within the societies within which they exist. Yes, violence exists everywhere. Yes, violence against women…

I'm moving to calgary this year. And yeah I agree :(

That's a rather defeatist attitude. Not saying I disagree completely (I'm surrounded by Indian patriarchy so I get where you're coming from) but I'm not gonna just give up and lay down when my father punches me in the face either (which he has. More than once.)

"You have to love yourself enough to know that you're worthy of a healthy lifestyle" YES!!!!!! so much love for you right now Internet stranger :D you're so right, I had to get to the point where I thought "fuck this I deserve better! I deserve to be able to walk up stairs without huffing or hurting my knees!" Before…

You must understand what I mean right? I have a friend who lost 10kg by literally doing nothing but drinking green tea for two months. TWO MONTHS! All for a magic number on a scale. Now her number is larger but she's much healthier because I got worried and made her join in my workouts and change her diet to, well,…

I'm not saying one negates the other, quite the complete opposite. What I was mentioning about being unhappy about is that my weight loss tends to be celebrated over and above my increased strength, which is ironic because my actual weight hasn't changed, it's my body composition that has. I was commenting on how the…

Especially having grown up Hindu (not religious now but still), these pictures really really hit me hard. They're incredibly powerful.

Right?? Everytime I stack on an extra set of weights when weight training, and successfully complete my sets, I want to run (okay, hobble slowly) all the way home and jump (haha as if) up and down and yell it out to everyone "YEAH I DID IT, AND I'M ONLY GONNA GET BETTER!!!". Why can't that be celebrated instead of my…

Of course, if you do it the wrong, fad-influenced way. I was at 60kg last year in june, and 27% body fat (with 2kg visceral fat, the kind that leads to health problems in the future) and got there by working out 3x a week and having a balanced and healthy diet. Then I went backpacking for 8weeks and gained 13kg of…

Oh, I have to add, he got expelled because he ran in with the wrong crowd, drugs and what have you. But then he went "fuck this" and worked hard for his diploma. Never got his degree but he's one of the most intelligent people I know and to this day, the only man I've met who truly challenges me, in all ways mental,…