I genuinely don't get fur coats. They're uniformly hideous and make everyone look about 50lbs heavier than they really are. Is that a thing? Maybe that's a thing.

I just posted pretty much the same thing about my husband. My attempts to woo him to the smartphone side have succeeded only in convincing him he needs to buy a digital camera.

LOL, my husband is on his 7th Razr! They usually stop charging around the 18th mo. mark, and he buys another on Ebay for $15. I've tried to make him see the need for a smartphone by forcing him to use my iphone's mapping or camera functions. This has somehow only made him to love his Razr more.

And you'd be obliged if you asked for a female fitter. The idea isn't to force people into uncomfortable situations, but not to aggressively discriminate to avoid a situation in which someone might have to say, "I'd be more comfortable with a woman." But this is all rather besides the point as the person in question…

Pre-surgery (but apparently post at-home hair treatments).

Technically, the only plastic surgery they've had is the $27,000 breast implants. The rest is (an insane amount of) lip injections, (just insane) eyebrow tattoos and spa treatments.

The dressing room area is a particularly private and vulnerable place for many women and girls, so it's a protected area.

PLEASE STOP IMBEDDING VIDEO THAT AUTOPLAYS!

I thought this was super interesting until I got to the US image which hugely misses the boat on American beauty standards (perhaps they applied the wrong clown filter?), which makes me doubt how well the other shoppers capture their country's authentic beauty standards.

I think it's pretty obvious that my responses have been both conditional and general and not a response to this particular instance.

You're not confused, per se. You're simply not interested in thinking, or maybe if I'm being more charitable, listening.

Q: Seriously, what the fuck do you think happens when you call 911?

Your response doesn't seem to be a response to mine, which takes no position on the relative dangers of parental decisions, lawmaking, or punishment.

The responses to this well-written, thoughtful piece are surprising.

For Christ's sake, Victoria's Secret has been hawking the string bikini for decades. It's not a revelation, it's literally the laziest/cheapest suit to manufacture. It's the Hanes Her Way of bathing suits.

I'd rather be paying for her dresses than his drones.

Just a guess, but I think the OP was referring to Jello pudding, not Jell0 gelatin.

Seriously best hand cream on the planet, stays silky but not oily through hand washing. Aveeno replaced it with some worthless crap with a blue banner that doesn't work for shit. Luckily, you can still buy this formula (with the "natural colloidal oatmeal"—whatever that means) in Canada, which is great (but weird to…

Give the child a bond that matures on their 18th birthday. This is supposed to be for the kid, right? They'll get all the necessities they'll need, and a bunch of crap they won't with or without you. Give that kid something that will actually tie you to them in an awesome way and that their parents can't fuck up.

"Partner" is problematic for academics like me, who often do have professional writing partnerships that leads to confusion that is not easily resolved because asking, "life or writing partners" is a really awkward follow-up. For years I referred to my (now) husband as my lover, but my academic friends thought that…