I gotta admit, I find it pretty distasteful to see a male commenter being sad that he was slower than another male commenter to make a Margaret Atwood comment when we’re talking about yet another fucking women being murdered by a man.

Yep. I dated a man with a penis that was probably in the single digits percentile of length and width. However, he was the best at everything else. The best. Ever. My God he was the best. Did I mention that he was the best? He was the best. Ever.

The problem with VERY private arrangements is that they are not known to work because most people don’t think of all the possibilities and know the monetary average cost for services. It is best to have a mediator because all the details of surrogacy need to be laid out by people who are aware of all the risks. And…

Why can’t she pull a Shawn and Kaitlyn? They’re “engaged,” but it’s pretty clear they’re taking their time and just dating seriously before rushing into things. I kind of expected Rachel to be...I don’t know, more reasonable about this kind of thing?

Especially when that’s all you know. A lot of people are fortunate to have success with therapy (and meds, if they choose that option) and forget that other folks don’t always share the same outcome. While I appreciate the optimism that comes from people saying, “It gets better/I got better, you can too” it glosses…

Nobody cares about your boner.

I would bet he didn’t want to bring Rachel to meet his dad but was pushed into it by the producers. They’ve had people go to “hometowns” and just hang out with friends or walk around town without meeting the family before. Dean seems like a pushover though, so it probably wasn’t too difficult for them to get him to…

I don’t know you but I want to say I am so proud of you. I’m glad you’re in recovery and doing well. You are awesome

Thank you for your story, this is something as a man I just don’t think I can fully comprehend. There is just no comparisons to what women and girls have to go through. Glad your feeling better both physically and mentally.

The Chopping of the Brownies. God. You go in, there’s a plate of treats, and instead of just taking one there’s this ritualistic slicing of the whatever into halves, fourths, eighths—anything to prove that you’re not greedy and sloppy and out of control. Unless the thing is the size of a human torso it cannot…

Glad to hear you’re doing better.... And F the patriarchy!!!

I’d like to watch some well-made documentaries on the topic, I think. I’m wary of being triggered as well, as I’ve struggled with the impulse to temper my diet and exercise excessively for more than half of my life now. I would really like to see some documentaries though because they often present issues with a sort…

Yep. Hell, the new Ghostbusters inspired a new movie test in some online circles I’m in called the Pizza Test: a group of women in a film are eating something other than salads or health foods and absolutely no one comments on their weight, about diets, or the healthiness of the food. They just eat the food like it’s…

The whole weight-loss craze was insanely triggering for me, and I didn’t even realize til after I had normalized my eating habits.

I had gained a lot of weight after I was sick, and decided to do Weight Watchers with my mother. Something so mainstream and socially accepted MUST be better than my ED, right?

I had to quit…

Yes. To all of this.

I just started listening to Kelsey Miller’s audiobook (“Big Girl: How I Gave Up Dieting and Got a Life”) and I’ve been sobbing in the car driving to work because I relate SO HARD. I had never heard of “intuitive eating” until this week, and it’s so brutal because it’s so simple but at the same time I have 3 decades…

I wish I could star this more than once. So much solidarity. Diet culture is so dangerous and I cringe every time I hear women talking about “being good” ugh.

Thank you for this.

I want to star this twice. It is so hard for me to be sane about food when I’m surrounded by coworkers who go on about how baddddd they’re being when they eat a brownie, or how virtuous they are if they don’t. IT’S JUST FOOD.

I’d love to see a movie about an eating disorder affecting someone who doesn’t look like their being affected by ED. I don’t think most people understand that you can be fat and be bulimic.