Well, I think the "Your life will be ruined if you have a kid" narrative is written by younger women. I do think that older women have made the decision to not have kids, but I highly doubt they would ever put it in terms of: "Because they ruin my drinking and sleeping in time." That's some twenty-something talk if…

I don't understand. Isn't Bang with Friends exactly like Tinder? I thought all the sex-positive folk here were Soooo down with Tinder, what's the diff?

I'm anbout ten pounds heavier now (winter weight, lol), but in the summer when I have my running regeime up I look more or less like this woman. It's just my genes. My arms and my chest get kind of stringy and bird-like looking, but super muscular legs. BTW, I'm in my mid-30s. When I was younger, that wouldn't happen.

Well, there you are. You work in fashion. Not only is it very visual, but it also tends to praise hyper-stylized forms of beauty. BTW, I lived in Paris four years, but as an academic, and I can definitely tell you it has to do with the circles you run in - age makes a difference, too :-)

She's 25. Aaah the insecurity of youth. I remember that. I was probably hot at 25 but was convinced I was a lard-ass and unattractive. I think it's cause most of the media images of women are her age and they are decidedly above average. I remember reading a study that said that people tend to see media images as more…

Or you're gorgeous but see yourself as flawed. It would explain how you can't see that some of these women are "conventionally attractive."

Gross.

Too true. I had air sickness one time flying back from Europe. You don't want to know what I did to that toilet :-(

Thanks :-)

Right, I don't want to talk out of my ass on this one - that's why I was hoping somebody who'd studied these issues would respond - but the only way I can think of it is as a sliding scale. Like, to be completely female and being completely male is exceedingly rare. My guess. ONLY.

I asked the same question. Waiting to hear!

"It's more than simply wanting to play with dolls"

My question is to all who know more about this subject than I do (i.e.: most people):

Can I ask how big the town is? That seems like an awful lot of prostitution for a "small town". Not that I'd know. I live in NYC now and I never see, hear or know about prostitutes even though I guess there are lots.

The actual mixture was rhetorical. It was one of many strange and caustic solutions I would see my female students consume in lieu of food.

Past it's prime? NOOOO! But, I'll agree with you that we call it "The Old World" for a reason.

Actually, I'm glad you guys are posting this. I used to work in a school in the US that catered to students from abroad - most of them from S. Korea and Japan. Since it was my first time working with people of this world I was a little shocked and surpirsed how often the girls would talk about having gotten fat, or…

I think there's a big difference between saying stuff that's born of your own insecurity (i.e. being jealous of her being thin, pretty or rich) and offering a critique on the content of someone's performance or message.

It's a more common attitude than you think. I hear it all the time. Offer a critique of somebody's favorite band or movie, "You're just jealous." Comment on somebody's dumbass performance, "You're just jealous."

I'd also say, do we know what happened just before filming or after? Like just before filming, maybe the little girl was really excited about the idea and the parent was like: 'Well, if you do what you say you're gonna do and actually follow through with it, I'll get you a new bike!"