Restricts blood flow; impedes digestion; causes indigestion and reflux; restricts intake of air and full exhalation, which can cause fluid build up in the lungs; dyspena and hypoxia if you let it go too far; fracturing of the ribs...You need to be able to move your diaphragm and expand your abdomen for proper…
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Being an entrepreneur can be very empowering for women and an economic landscape which better supports that avenue for earning is empowering for women. But that does not translate into the merchandise she sells being empowering itself, which is what this article suggests. It’s the act of being a business owner, making…
“I 100 percent helped make this body type acceptable.”
Holy mother, how can we stop the talk about the (nonexistent!) “health benefits”? Unless your doctor has ordered you to wear a similar contraption as a truss or back brace, you are doing damage to yourself with this waist training nonsense.
No, the one good thing about waist trainers was realizing my 9 year old has been listening to me when a commercial came on for them during Little House On The Prairie. Her exact quote was, “I bet there isn’t something like this for men.”
Declaring waist trainers as empowering because they make individual female business owners money is silly. Like, would we entertain the notion that a former stay at home mom who now makes big money selling I dunno, graphic tees and signs for anti-abortion protesters is “empowering for women?” I hope we wouldn’t.
she has books! on a shelf! looks like a law library! who knew?
Yeeeeah, I’m going to need something a little more substantial than “It’s women’s empowerment because it benefits meeee!” before I start thinking it’s anything more than the same tired bullshit. Things that range from terrible to useless benefit the people selling them all the time - that’s capitalism. It doesn’t make…
I think this might be the best one yet.
Louise Rennison is amazing and I wish more people knew her.
The first thing I said to her was actually “oh my god!”
Royal Wedding was really good! I was a little apprehensive because, hey, it’s been 6 years since the last Princess Diaries book and it seemed like a pretty conclusive ‘Fin’ to me. It was lovely, though. Like visiting with old friends, sappy as that may sound. Plus, as you say, Meg Cabot seems like an A+ human being…
Oh my god, I’m so jealous of you right now, Mark. Meg Cabot was and is easily one of my favorite long-time authors. Probably because I fall into that exact category of “reading her Princess Diaries books at 12.”
When I see her name, I get a flashback to freshman year of high school when I did a book report on Size 12 is Not Fat. When I was done presenting it in front of the class, some asshole boy asks, “But like, IS size 12 fat?”
I loved growing up with Mia! I grew up with her and Georgia from the Louise Rennison books. I’m a full-fledged adult but sometimes when I want to read and laugh, I read the Georgia books or the Princess Diaries books. They are STILL so good. Louise Rennison is, to me, the funniest writer and my best friend and I spent…
And with zero marketable skills they’ll get the fun experience of starting at the bottom and making minimum wage, all while having to interact with outside people who hold different (read: frighteningly heathen) points of view and values than they do.
Can we send them bootstraps?