I hear you, but I feel like what she was recommending was so over-the-top (cover your friend with a blanket! got a solid laugh) that it shows the absurd lengths women have to go to to protect themselves. They're almost satirizing the people who put the responsibility on women. But I could be reading it with…

As Germany should know, the US doesn't let a little water stop them from advancing.

Yeah, it's silly, and so is your argument. The entire point of that post is that there IS no "authentic," and people who insist on its existence are being ridiculous and ahistorical. The notion that white people only want to buy food from other white people is even more absurd, to the point that I don't even know…

How do you know that they are "repackaging it as authentic"? You don't. That's just an assumption you are making. Fusion cuisine is an actual thing, you know. Is the Japanese place that sells sushi pizza guilty of appropriating Italian culture? Is the Middle Eastern restaurant in my hood that serves a lamb kofta…

Some kid the other day told me and my friend that eating food outside of our culture was cultural appropriation and that we need to "cut it out." -_____- I'm white, our food sucks, I live in Miami, I'll be at the Cuban cafe down the street if anyone needs me.

Meh. It's silly to apply the rules of cultural appropriation to cuisine, as food has always absorbed influences from other cultures.

Wow. I shall add this to my repertoire along with "Anglo-giver" which is a phrase I made up to replace "Indian-giver". One of my white friends got a bit pissed about it until I explained that historically it tended to be the Europeans who made promises and then reneged when those promises proved to be either costly…

Except the fact that she admitted it, added back a few pounds and is now at a perfectly maintainable weight. But yeah, except all that you're right

Or a glass implement that wicked witches use to track time. HAH!

I thought that was "carrot"! Well, no matter our shape, they'll find a plant to compare us to.

I think it's the same as the "Olive Oyl" type? Long & lanky?

For years and years, that has not failed to give me a smile and a chuckle.

I'm a voice woman, which made for some confusing times in my childhood when I couldn't decide which man I wanted to marry more:

I think it looks like this:

There is one brave man who is willing to go on record. Scientists should really seek him out.

Protip: Men prefer the body type of the woman willing to have sex with him at the moment.

Now, if EVERYBODY would stop watching fat people get abused for "entertainment" purposes, we might really have something! I pretty much detest Jillian Michaels and everything The Biggest Loser stands for, but people who consume this bullying-as-entertainment are really to blame.

Jillian Michaels is retiring to spend more time yelling at her family.

and some of them drive cabs...