Isn’t 5 a little young to start policing a girls body? I think you're perfectly right to be mad.

Real thing that happened today:

I have similar thoughts when they pray before football games over the loud speaker.

God, now that you’re done helping this woman find a diamond, think you can do something about all this war, poverty, hatred, and other things?

Clarks says she asked God: “Are you going to bless me and let me find a diamond today?”

The only way to give this a feminist re-brand I can get behind is to call them “Stanx” and have them be baggy, comfortable onesies with lots of deep pockets where I can keep my snacks for Netflix marathons of Call the Midwife.

“flatten that enormous stomach, what on earth have you been eating, do you even take the Oreos out of the bag first”

JESUS CHRIST IT WAS JUST THAT ONE TIME LEAVE ME ALONE

...starting this month, each red box of Spanx promotes a dose of what the company says is feminist inspiration: “Don’t take yourself or the ‘rules’ too seriously,” reads a message card.

I wear Spanx while giving engineering lectures to all-male audiences. I find the squeeeziness to be really comfortable, and it keeps my posture good during long lectures. I wear corsets for ballroom dance, because it looks good, and if I don’t, I get crippling back pain after an hour.

I am a feminist who loves her Spanx. I have always seen them more as the magical substance that keeps the skin of my inner thighs from rubbing away when I’m wearing a dress. When it’s warm out I prefer to wear dresses, and I have found that Spanx are a lot more effective at preventing painful rub then regular…

2001, Prince concert at the Xcel Energy Center in St Paul. My friends and I have shitty seats way up at the top and to the side, that still cost us $75 each. It’s a hot and humid summer day in the Twin Cities, and we’re waiting outside, when suddenly my friend (who is tiny) faints in the heat. Security allows us to go…

A few years back, on the last tour The Barenaked Ladies did before Steven Page left, the band had this program where they got people to volunteer to see carbon offset credits before the concert. In return the volunteers got free tickets, a chance to meet the band, and free t shirts.

GZA.

Although it wasn’t my first concert, it was a memorable one. I’m an old so have seen all the dead bands but one that keeps recurring in my dreams is seeing the Velvet Underground at the Retinal Circus in Vancouver way back when. Much dope was smoked, acid was dropped and Lou Reed was singing I’m Waiting for the Man -…

As some of you may have figured out by now, I’m in love with Hunter Hayes.

i was but a 13 year old baby when I saw gwar and I saw them unexpectedly. Our friend’s mom took us to goo see sugarcult (we were 13 year old girls leave us be) and it was in the small room of a two room club. after the show the singer took the stage and announced that we, the entire little gaggle of pop punk children…

2001. Patti Smith at a really small PA venue, with her band. Me, with friends from work,and 8 months pregnant with twins. I am MASSIVE, on partial bed rest and unable to stand for more than 15 minutes. Club sets up a table for one for me, stocks it with water bottles, and I not only have the best seat in the house, I…

Oh man, I saw GWAR when they were playing a four band punk bill at the old WUST radio hall in D.C. that I was shooting. It was only their second show, so no one knew what to expect. One of them came up to me and said “that looks like a really nice camera.” “Why yes it is, thank you.” “In that case, when we’re on I…

Watching Elton John nearly stop playing because a woman flashed him. The look on his face was priceless.