Yeah, my “problem” (i.e., the way my body tends to deviate from standard clothing sizing) is my broad shoulders, not my bust. However, I wonder whether—if one were really attached to the button-down shirt style—one could buy a couple of really nice Oxford shirts that fit in the bust, then pay to get them tailored. My…

I’ve had good luck with white Oxford button-down shirts. That fabric tends to be fairly tightly woven, so it’s not generally see-through. I’ve gotten good ones in the past from Abercrombie & Fitch and Gap, and you’d probably also do well with a place like L.L. Bean (which has started selling slimmer fitting styles in…

Nope - nowadays their girlfriends are named Hunter. I know this because these are basically my students :-|

Seriously! Not only does she save herself from falling (by sheer willpower and quad muscle), but she gets back into sync with her backup dancers without missing more than a beat or two. That woman is a consummate professional.

My thoughts, pretty much. Her songs make me cringe, but I kind of love the floor lying—it’s like she realized “Hey, it’s not like I can play this off so maybe people won’t realize I wiped out, so I might as well stay down and catch my breath.” Not everyone can be Beyoncé.

Yeah, I think this picture is from his previous work. That said, some women have “franks and beans”—and some men don’t.

14 inches is a bit much, even for somebody experiencing significant “feelings of inner emptiness.” I prefer my magic wands energy rods no longer than 7-8 inches, tops.

Inside of my wrist hurt like crazy. Now, I was getting a pretty saturated tattoo (which needed them to go over it several times), but it felt a bit like somebody was slashing my wrist.

On the contrary, I think he’s a monster. But what makes him monstrous isn’t something so uncommon as incest; it’s his (sadly) much more common way of thinking about women as things. The only thing that makes him at all remarkable is his willingness to follow those views through to their horrifying conclusions.

And now you’ve got me thinking about Trump as basically Craster from A Song of Ice and Fire/Game of Thrones. Ugh ugh ugh.

I hear what you’re saying, but it’s not so much that he doesn’t think a woman can be smart or talented so much as none of those things matter if she isn’t also beautiful (for example, his comments on Carly Fiorina that she couldn’t be taken seriously as a presidential candidate because of her face).

Despite his comments about at least two of his daughters (Tiffany here, the comments about Ivanka saying “If she weren’t my daughter...”), I actually don’t think he wants to have sex with his own children. Rather, I think he believes that the highest compliment you can give a woman is to call her fuckable. Which leads…

Jumping on to endorse speed work - on days when I’m feeling I don’t have time to run, it’s a great way to get the run out of the way relatively quickly, and it’s made my body more able to handle long runs, too.

Agreed. Something interesting—and not totally surprising—is how the actors who’ve benefited from these powerful men’s fame (Cate Blanchett and other actors in Woody Allen movies, Malcolm-Jamal Warner and Phylicia Rashad in the Cosby Show) have a huge incentive to defend, or at least minimize, these men’s alleged…

This thread is why fatosphere blogs ban diet talk. No offense to you—I’m talking mostly about the thread your post spawned, not your original post itself—but it’s ridiculous how an article that talks specifically about how improbable long-term weight-loss is ends up generating a bunch of comments about what weight…

This news - and the news that Amber Heard was getting together with Johnny Depp - makes me sad because both were dating women before hooking up with much more famous, older men. I mean yes, people can be bisexual and more power to them, but I love having visible queer women in the spotlight, and both of them following…

As a young female faculty member, I’ll add my voice to the chorus here and say that this video is objectively horrible. You know what? Women in academia have a hard time being taken seriously. We (as well as faculty members of color, and doubly so for women of color) routinely receive worse student evaluations than…

The replies you’re getting here are pretty telling (and disappointing). OK, so folks don’t like using the word “racism” to only mean “institutional racism.” Fine. But do people really not get that there’s a huge difference between an individual person being prejudiced (and yes, that can include people of color who are…

This entire article pleased me, from start to finish. Maybe it’s in part because, as an instructor for intro-level college classes, I have to beg and plead with my students to cobble together something remotely resembling an argument. This article is one declarative sentence after another, a series of beautiful,…

I especially loved to hate Emily Yoffe-as-Prudence’s frequent recommendations that any time a friend or family member is acting outside the norm, you should “get them to a doctor for a full workup.” It often seemed completely unfathomable to her that having unusual tastes, preferences, or behaviors could ever be health…