Is encouragement from a fellow brown person acceptable? I'm fat and black and quite a long time ago I felt intimidated about going to the gym. It didn't help that some of the guys were jerks. But you know what kept me going back? Remembering that not one of them are doing anything for me. Are they paying my membership…

May you break your leg while running, have your thyroid cease working soon after, and gain a ton of weight while recovering from your injury. You awful, smug cretin.

Hearing people who do cleanses go on about it annoys me terribly. It's all this crap about "flushing toxins out of the body." Every time, I want to point out that your body has a way of ridding itself of toxins—it's called your kidneys and liver. And if those aren't working, you've got a big, big problem that no…

I found this interesting too, as that is my own experience. I pay $50/month for the gym and $110/month for the diet pills(phentermine). My gym membership used to be even cheaper ($35/month), but I moved closer to a branch of the gym that has a pool, so it's more.

I know when someone asks "Who?" everyone tells them to use Google. I did so and I still don't understand who this person is/why she is notable. Granted I only read the wikipedia entry, but from that I gathered she 1) comes from a suburb near Chicago 2) went to college at Georgetown and wrote for the college paper…

I'd forgotten too, when I saw that I thought "Who's Crystal Hefner?" That said, the outfit in the middle is the right choice.

We didn't need the first one.

"When you host a party, your goal should be to make your guests comfortable and happy, period. Not to satisfy your vanity, not to make people pay attention to you, not to make yourself feel special."

If I've learned nothing else in life, I have learned this: there is nothing so terrible people won't do it and nothing so awful people won't say it. There is no line people won't cross.

Seconding the recommendation for tribe or other meetup sites. I found it really nice—being in San Francisco, most of the people I knew here had left. So I tried meetup.com and went out and did some things I was into, with different groups of people. I also met my current boyfriend that way, but that wasn't my…

Since your mother never told you, I will: movies aren't real life. I don't give a good goddam what happens in some schmaltzy movie. Woman after woman here is telling you that 1) this sort of attention is not welcome and 2) it really does have an (negative) impact on our day to day lives. You won't listen though. You…

Same here. And the worst thing about it, that turns my stomach even now when I think of it, was that these were grown men. They weren't the boys in my math class, or brothers of my friends. These men were often old enough to be my father or grandfather.

Ugh. One Christmas we went down to the mall to have a family picture taken. We're sitting around on these sort of ottoman things and there's a guy next to me, changing his son or daughter on one. I told him that there were toilets right outside the store (literally, he'd have to walk a few feet). He told me to mind my…

People have really lost their damn minds. That's a health hazard, full stop. No justification for it; the restaurant management handled it exactly as they should have.

I don't think much of Kanye, but that is such a nice picture!

Yep. The panty line is just a different shape with thongs. What makes people who wear them think there is no panty line?

Here's the problem with it. First off, you're not supposed to assume someone is giving you a gift. If someone is working a low paying job or no job at all, they may not be able to give you a gift. Even worse is <i>telling people</i> what to give you as a gift. Now, that is never going to not be rude and tacky. People…

There's a saying : He who pays the fiddler calls the tune. Your mother is paying, she gets to decide things. You don't want her paying and making decisions, pay for it yourself. If you can't afford the type of wedding your mother can afford to pay for, go down to city hall and do it.

Wish I could give this more than one star. This is the absolute, plain old truth, which everyone needs to know:

• You dye, cut, and style your hair according to your bad moods.