I would suggest that the researchers read the cover story in this month's Esquire about Danny DeVito. He's one that breaks the mold. (Well, him and my five-foot-two-inch father - it was from him that I learned when you are short in this world, you just need to speak up 'cause it's easy for people to ignore you. Take…

To each their own. It's a sad day when Béyoncé is used as the Voice of black feminism.

Because they couldn't just have a class about Black feminism?

All I see when Madonna does shit like this is:

He is a horrible person. This should not have happened. It is not her fault. But she knew he wasn't trustworthy — and it's sad that she agreed to go to his dr office when he was obviously going to try and convince her to terminate.

What's interesting is that most likely, 14 years isn't just for the abortion, it includes practicing medicine without a license (he's a med student), and a most likely a felony for forging his father's signature to obtain the prescription.

That's a very important point. However, I believe his sentence was first-degree murder, which sets a terrible precedent for abortion rights because its saying the 6 week embryo that died was a person. Either way, what he did was wrong and I'm sure this woman having decided to keep the child was devastated, among all…

Yeah, but this can be used as fodder for the anti-abortion people. "OMG IT'S A PERSON AT SIX WEEKS, THIS WAS MURDER AND HE GOT 14 YEARS FOR IT, ABORTION IS MURDEEEER." That's what I'm concerned about.

I would go absolutely insane if I had to explain to my school-aged son that I was terminal. I can't even think about it right now without my chest tightening.

I know we're supposed to like it and I usually do, but Beyonce's look a bit sloppy to me—like a lace doily all scrunching and wrong, especially from the side (is that skin, a mushy bra, what?). And her hair and makeup are atrocious.

On the "homonormative" and "heteronormative" front - which bar is supposed to be safe for women?
The phrase "Well no, not really; my vulnerability doesn't take a fucking night off" in the OP's comment resounds particularly in this point. In either type of bar, she is apparently supposed to be okay with being…

You can be homonormative and still be polite to people. She went with her friend who is gay which is totally different than going in a bachelorette party. Would you say that it would be appropriate to treat a gay man at a regular, heteronormative bar?

That last paragraph is so spot on it gave me chills.

Thank you for writing this.

People! Bieber is a young star crying for help. We should be praying that he gets that help, rather than mocking him and laughing...

I suppose it's better than being betrothed to the farmer in the next county because he is the only bachelor in a 100 mile radius and you are 16 and desperate to get out of the house because you have 9 younger siblings to help raise. Other than that, I'm not so sure.

This sounds like your own prejudice. You are the one disavowing somebody's beauty based on their weight, not the OP.

Sara, this column is 100% pure awesome.

Yeah, as a fat woman, I don't magically get a right to make my thinner friends feel uncomfortable or bad about their bodies. How does that help anybody?