Full sincerity here; we’ll miss you and your writing here. I’m continually sad to see so many brilliant writers leaving this place, but I understand. It’s tough watching this place get slowly defanged and made increasingly mainstream and Voxian, but damn if you all aren’t magnificent at what you do.
Yes! I take TERRIBLE pictures. Like, circus ugly pictures, despite looking perfectly normal IRL. I hated it as a kid, but honestly I really think it helped me to not focus on my looks. I am smart, I am funny, I am independent, educated, generous, and good at my job. That will last a hell of a lot longer than being…
I don’t know if you actually read his whole post, but that’s not all he said. He talks about his initial terrible justifications for his behavior and how he felt indignant at the accusation and after speaking with several people he realized he was the one in the wrong, and that he is in counseling to try to correct…
Well I don’t think you were addressing the author of the article, you were pretty clearly addressing me. But I really do not want to fight about it forever, and I can hardly keep up an attack on a vegetarian cat lady who rescues chickens, dammit. I also have a needy cat. He is four, a total mama’s boy, and I call him…
I think reframing in this way is incredibly healthy. I do something similar when I look in the mirror and start to focus on my physical flaws. Yay for positivity!
“He did not get any sun,” Murray added. “He had a baseball hat on.”
Shaving your armpits isn’t actually a cure-all for body odor, and I really, really fucking wish this myth would die. The theory is that pit hair actually reduces stank, cuz it wicks sweat away from your skin helping it evaporate faster and reducing the amount of odor-causing bacteria that builds up. Obviously, like…
I heard that I had a HUGE nose for most of my high school life. So, sue me, I have a big nose! (It’s not even THAT big, just hooked.) It took me decades to understand that there was a reason why, outside of school, people found me attractive and interesting: my classmates were a bunch of bullying assholes; that’s…
Stopped regularly shaving my legs years ago - never looking back
A-OK. At some point the current beauty requirements will be looked at the way we view corsets (you a fan?) and foot-binding now. Go ahead and have fun with it. I chimed in because that was supposedly the topic of discussion. I don’t need to be told most women disagree with me because I have eyeballs.
I’m especially that way about significant body modification when you don’t have some sort of birth defect like a cleft lip. Things like constant boob jobs and botox distort our idea of what the female body should look like and how we should age.
I do think this is something where measured judgment is appropriate. And I think it’s important to consider the extent to which women alter themselves and the pressures that puts on other women. Shaving your legs is a lot different than lip injections. But if everyone starts to do lip injections, it will become a…
The daughter is 20 years old and talks like an oldtimer about sex and shit?
I’m to the point where the only thing I found surprising about this is that he’s figured out how to embed a video in a tweet.
One of the saddest aspects of this for Little Rock is how the community is responding (online via Facebook comments to the news reports) to the shooting. No love, no concern, no sympathy. Just a bunch of racist bible thumpers. I’ve seen a friend who lives in Little Rock comment about it saying “this doesn’t happen at…
It’s not even a convincing lie. That just outs him as someone incapable of professional business correspondence.
“He said he disliked her ideas so he behaved the way he did to make her go away.”
Does fucking Ayn Rand’s corpse count as cheating on his wife?
A lot of people are saying this. Someone should look into it…