Ron, 28, a beverage sales manager from Memphis, TN can get it.

Do these guys all share the same dentist? VENEERS FOR DAYS.

I totally agree about the education thing and I think it should be focussed more on behavior, like eating right and exercising, than just about weight and BMI (which aren't very good indicators of health). I was a little bit overweight at 13 too, and my parents later told me they worried about it, but didn't want to…

No shit. They're creating a false "Cinderella story" narrative where they lose weight and magically gain the ability to love. It's BS, but that's reality TV.

Completely disagree. I have visible ribs and have a more than healthy appetite. Many commenters of all sizes have said they have visible rib cages. It has as much to do with body proportion and skeletal size as it does weight, and even so, weight doesn't tell you as nearly as much about eating habits as people seem to…

"Looking healthy" is a misnomer. Thin people can be healthy and fat people can be healthy. You can't judge a person's health by their body size. My weight fluctuates, but I always have very protruding hipbones. So protruding that I actually frequently hit them on door frames or the edges of tables (hurts like you…

Being thin does not mean you have an eating disorder. Neither does having ribs that show. Bodies are diverse. I used to have a body similar to that mannequin, ribs and all, and trust me, I ate just fine. Want to advocate for more body diversity in mannequins? Great. That would be much needed. But don't presume to know…

YES.

You really can't tell anything about a person's health by just looking at their body size. This is true whether the person in question is thin or fat.

Honestly I don't get this. This mannequin is actually MORE like a human woman at that size. And visible ribs are not some magical marker of unhealthiness. I used to be about the size of that mannequin (and perfectly healthy with a large appetite, for the record) and that's what my body looked like. If anything,…

I could argue that the so-called "protective role" is just another type of dominant role. If a man tells a woman not to go out because he says he fears for her safety, he's still trying to control her behavior. He's assuming that she needs to be protected and taken care of. If one person is the "protector" and the…

Basically all moms feel useless at some point, especially when it comes to hormones, boys, dating, etc., especially when your kids are teens. Teens are great at rejecting even the most sound parental advice. The most important thing is being accepting, and I think your experience would make you accepting of your kids…

I'm not saying that at all. I'm saying that the vast majority of the time men are physically more powerful than women, so a woman being attacked by a man is almost definitely in physical danger, whereas that is not ALWAYS the case with women attacking men. I don't believe Jay Z was in any physical danger when Solange…

I'm not calling everyone who disagrees with me an MRA troll. But these big celebrity stories bring a ton of people who aren't regular readers and don't give a shit about Jezebel or feminists issues any other day of the week to the comments, and an awful lot of them seem to be in the "what about MEN and OUR rights?"…

But should he stop being Spiderman and quit fighting crime and defending the undefended just because it might lead to the creation of some villains? I think not, although the case can be made, "with great power comes great responsibility" and all that. But, like I said, that's an argument for another time (albeit one…

Justice is not the same as equality. I want justice. I don't think we need to pretend that men and women are exactly the same in every way in order to treat them fairly. And I don't think violence is always wrong. I think it can be justified in some cases. That isn't a very controversial position. The entire concept…

As much as I would love one of your fictional official feminists badges, writing for a website that discusses feminist issues doesn't make you an "official feminist", whatever that means. Feminism is a term that people self-identify with, if they so choose. Not all feminists are required to believe exactly the same…

Pro-tip 1: Any debate worth having is going to be filled with complicated arguments and back and forths. Ethics are complicated and nuanced and there is more than one framework with which to interpret a scenario.

I most definitely am not assuming all men will retaliate physically. I'm saying that a 5'8" woman hitting a 6'2" man is not the same as a 6'2" man hitting a 5'8" woman. That physical difference matters. Unless the woman happens to be Chun-li or Sydney Bristow, that physical disparity marks the difference between an…

Maybe I am. And I'd wager that the guys that socially ostracize someone for not hitting a woman are the same guys railing about how angry feminists are trying to keep them down and minimize their suffering and how all the evil women are victim-blaming Jay Z and all violence is terrible and exactly the same and there…