Don't forget, though, you burn a certain amount of calories just being you. You can calculate it based on your height, weight, age, and relative fitness level (Ie. are you generally sedentary at work or active etc). We all have a baseline, just like we have a general caloric intake we need to live. If we were trying…

Only in Hollywood would someone think a picture of themselves dressed casually and genuinely laughing, is "bad". I mean, she can prefer to look however she wants, but she is a real person who doesn't actually live on the red carpet posing without lines in her face. "Bad" is not the word anyone should associate with…

Having lived in SoCal, NYC, SF, and now Europe...this. Beauty ideals can vary drastically depending on where you are, and the closer to you are to LA or NYC, the more thinness is a major component, and the more extreme that thinness often is. Hollywood "thin" is not just thin, it's also on this whole other scale of…

I'm currently living abroad, in a country that has excellent universal healthcare. People here are absolutely baffled by the US's obsession with healthcare and deciding who does and does not "deserve" access to it. It seems inhumane and insane to them.

Amy Poehler is amazing and having been through 2 years of therapy , this is EXACTLY what a good therapist will tell you and help you work on. Basically what she's talking about is "All or Nothing Thinking" and "Downplaying the Positive" to focus exclusively on the negative. I do both, constantly. It was -really- hard…

A lot of women hear the opposite, all the time. Lots of girls/women struggle with self-esteem issues because our society is so critical and judgmental of them/us. For a lot of us, what seems "simple" and "didn't you know this already?" is a daily trial. I had to go through 2 years of therapy to accomplish something…

Yeah, because typo's never happen to anybody, ever. It is always because of a lack of education/bad writing skills.

Hopefully a good thing. I was not overly thrilled with the first film for a variety of reasons, and the uneven directing was one of them. I will never understand why the scene of them entering the arena in their costumes was shot so oddly, looking totally fake and underwhelming. Effie is the only character they seemed…

Seriously, he should have Finnick. The second I saw people suggesting him I was like yesssss. But then they didn't and I was sad, sad, sad.

So, I'm living in Europe for a year and part of what I'm noticing is all the food differences. I live in Germany, which is super into dairy, sugar, and carbs. Their baked goods, chocolate, and yogurt are amazing. Soda here has real sugar in it and, to me at least, tastes waaaay better. Coke is very popular but tends…

They have something called the "Excavation" cleanse. Which sounds utterly terrifying. I'm always tempted by these things because I used to have an eating disorder and there's nothing I like better than what sounds like a "legit" reason to fast. But as someone who also has a very healthy colon, I have no desire to…

I'm guessing some people's irony gene is dormant because other than the obvious wtfery of this, it's EXTREMELY funny/sad that the NRA just blamed video games and movies for gun violence...and then puts out a video game. Cognitive dissonance, it is amazing.

Self hate is a powerful motivator in a culture with as many issues with misogyny as ours. If you vote for legislation that supports an unconditional abortion ban, you are at the very least voting against women in general, and if you are a woman, against yourself and your ability to make a potentially life-saving…

Awhile back I read a book called "Whipping Girl" about transphobia within feminism, specifically with male to female transitions (or anyone who was biologically male but identifies as female, since plenty of people don't have gender reassignment surgery). It explored the experience a lot of trans women face with…

I am so sorry. It's something I've heard a lot from other trans women and it's just not acceptable. I -think- it stems from an obvious limit in understanding just how ingrained the gender binary is even when you're a feminist and hopefully more aware of it, and a misguided belief that their womanhood is threatened.…

Several other commenters here, actually.

Diablo Cody quipped at one point that only in Hollwood would you be able to cast Amanda Seyfried as the "plain" character by putting glasses on her. I mean, they were playing with exactly that trope, but it was still funny. Seyfriend is still gorgeous even when she's underdone.

Women get to decide whether they terminate a pregnancy or not, full stop. It's up to them to determine if or when and for what reasons they feel comfortable with. Scientifically, consciousness starts at a certain stage of brain development. That can matter to you or not, that's not for me to decide. It's also not up…

This is an interesting speech for a bunch of reasons. I personally think it shows just how complicated it is to live your life in the public eye and maintain any sense of privacy and self. Which is further complicated by the general expectations we have of famous people to grant us access when we want it, but not "too…

My reaction to this is: holy.shit. Not because I'm surprised, but because of that last line. If your current boyfriend "thanks" your ex for abusing you or uses the word "tamed" get the FUCK out of that relationship.