At one point she claimed to have tried to kill herself because her family was plotting to kill both her and her daughter.

Oh, that's annoying! I love paying the check, it makes me feel strong with lady-power.

Well, I guess I don’t want them to suffer any physical harm. However, I want the threat to be there, so they suffer the mental trauma of not knowing if/when they are going to be assaulted, of not being able to sleep at night, etc.

Agreed. This is just such a tragic story, I have such a hard time comprehending the things that these poor girls and the family of this man had to endure.

I've been thinking about this a lot lately - there used to be real (bullshit, but real) reasons why it was functionally useful for a woman to be pure. If you have a society where a woman is dependent on her husband financially, where children are only acceptable in the context of marriage, and where a man wants to…

BRAAAINNNS.... Brainsss? brrrrrains? I get it.

It's just not your problem. Nobody is oblivious to the fact that they're being unhealthy. People know that smoking or being overweight is unhealthy. You telling them is not going to make the situation any better. If my friends said something like that to me, I'd be mortified and angry and I'd consider ending the…

You don't think she's getting those lectures when at the doctor while coping with a chronic, degenerative disease?

Just what we all need: An insensitive man, who obviously does not know the pain of body dysmorphia, shaming and body snarking a young woman in serious mental distress. Under the guise of 'journalism' at a supposedly feminist blog. Disgusting, Doug. Shut your fetid piehole.

If you're going to continue to cover Amanda Bynes, at least try to show some compassion. Don't just point and laugh at someone as they spiral out of control. It's cruel.

You're absolutely correct. However I reserve my right to tell Doug Barry specifically to shut up, because when he writes crappy thoughtless posts he (usually) rambles his way through senseless, irrelevant non-sentences that make my brain want to punch my computer screen.

shut up Doug.

Hey I have an idea! Let's figure out which Hollywood actress is currently the most unbalanced, insecure, and potentially mentally ill and then every time she does anything atypical we can mock her on the internet! It's a perfect plan, I mean what could go wrong?

You know, a few weeks ago, I made two little blog posts through Kinja because someone else told me that I ought to host an AskABlank as Ask a Feminist Personal Trainer. I wasn't really getting many page views, but I have kept joyfully answering questions here in the comments. I still would like to do regular posts…

Most women don't get 'big honkin' muscles' unless they are on steroids.

I'm really sorry that I have to do this, because I'm sure that you're a lovely person and beautiful, but I'm a trainer myself and I just have to say:

Yo, Keifer is a VERY shitty trainer, says well-educated and compassionate trainer who just attended her local ACSM continuing education seminar today and learned new ways to help people with thoracic instability and joint stiffness. He is a pseudo-scientific ("thyroidal"?!), sexist asshole of a man who I would LOVE…

I can see how a guy who says this kind of thing would benefit from being able to run really fast.

Totally fine then.

Based on your comment maybe we should spend more time teaching women empathy instead of toughness.