What are the chances that there is a weight clause in the pre-nup that mandated how much Melania can weigh?

Ah the forced smiles of a couple who are badly trying to convince everyone they don’t have a row on a daily basis and can actually stand the sight of each other.

when does kurt russelll show up with the flame thrower and torch those horrifying abominations

Well, the blood trees had been eating guests to the WH, so they had to get rid of them.

Mexico has a plan for reducing migration: more thoroughly develop Central American nations so that people won’t have to flee their country of origin. And while Mexico would prefer the US help out with this, they are perfectly happy to ask China instead, since China is apparently increasing investment in the region.

I used to work with a guy who was into all that chemtrail, moon landing, Jewish-Nazi-Lizard-People-From-Within-The-Hollow-Earth nonsense. Like, aggressively gullible. Would follow you around with his phone playing the YouTube videos where filming a TV with a glitchy digital signal with your cellphone zoomed in from 20…

being treated like the women they are is.

a step in the right direction is, by definition, progression.

Doesn’t change the fact that women need to be treated better, but that’s an entirely different issue.

Uh... Because people like and/or want to like Alice Waters, but the insane things to which people lend credence can and should be incorporated into our reverence for them?

Spain is 2/3rds Catholic. It’s probably my America-centric view of the world talking, but I’m surprised the country allowed this to happen. (It’s not that surprising, I know.)

Almost certainly. That’d be exactly the kind of tabloid pap that I could see stirring reactionary pearl-clutchers to demand a rules change.

Wasn’t Christine Jorgenson in the news after the war? 

Yes, recognizing trans women as women who encounter the same types of marginalization/beauty standard bullshit all other women go through—in addition to what they face as transgender people, which should go without saying—is definitely TERF talk. Thanks for minimizing my statement for me.

The “progress” comment was genuine, with a healthy slathering of sarcasm and internal conflict over the bullshit of “which woman is most doable” contests in general. I’m glad you posted this. 

Well, unattainable beauty standards affect all women, no? I mean, skinny women are also historically the only pageant worthy ones. So, point taken, but I’m still going to applaud the inclusion.

“We’re not sure if Trump is actually human (has this been verified?)“

Knowing how these things go, it was probably put in place either after a sensationalized “man becomes woman!”-style news story on a suuuper early trans woman, or else as a broadly written blanket ban on men entering.

I guess. I’m not sure it was an explicitly written ban at that time, but it was definitely a no-go.

Very proud of this year’s Ms. Spain, and for the people who helped bring her to the spotlight.