"We've all been there. You live with your body 24 hours a day, seven days a week. You know its little ticks and quirks. You know when there is something wrong with you. Having a doctor misdiagnose something despite your insistence that it might be something else is maddening."

1) Consensual bondage/dominance/resistance sexual play has absolutely nothing to do with rape. The definition of rape is nonconsent. Words. They're so hard.

I also feel like a lot of times if a girl genuinely doesn't want to do something for whatever reason men and other women reverse shame her. "What? You won't do that? You're such a pearl clutching prude!" It's annoying, feminism means I have a choice, and it means I get to say no to certain acts for whatever reason I…

Everyone is blowing this is off as some weird fetish-y thing and missing Mark's larger point: this is becoming normal. Let me repeat that again: hardcore, extreme and often dangerous sexual acts, overwhelmingly involving women, are becoming more and more normalized. Things that should be seasoned fetishes and…

I don't understand how some people think they can know for sure that their genetics play no role. Like, what average person has that specific info beyond a reasonable doubt? It does give me a good laugh though. :)

"It had nothing to do with genetics . . ."

Ohhh, GOOD for you! For god's sake, do you twist everything around so that it is about you? Have you ever considered that most people don't aspire to be a size 0? I'd much rather be the size of this girl, believe it or not.

Actually you have no idea whether she's healthy. She could have an autoimmune disease or a bunch of allergies, she could be a diabetic, she could have terrible hemorrhoids or chronic joint pain, her liver might be in bad shape, she could be on medication for the flu, etc., etc. There's no way you know her health…

OK, I did not know that "Olympic anything" does not necessarily refer to a sport at the Olympics. Nevertheless, I stand by my statement that being a size 0 IS unobtainable for most women. That absolutely does have to do with genetics, since there are plenty of women (like me) whose bones are larger than a 0. And…

I woke up one morning and decided I wanted to get a Ph.D. in math. Why doesn't everyone?

While I agree with you, people will do what's important to them. I do fitness that fits into my schedule and that I enjoy and it follow a diet that doesn't make me feel like I'm obsessing. Could I be slimmer? Sure. Is it important to me that I be so? No. Same for this contestant. I'm sure she found other shit she…

Oh. Well, as long as you can see the future.

Hell, y'all, all I know is that this looks WAY too close to the hospital-issue undies they gave me in the maternity ward after having my baby.

But her bathing suit is just terrible.

I'm surprised there hasn't been much talk about Miss Pennsylvania, whose story was that she was conceived as a result of her mother being raped and how she wanted to reach out to tell other people that they can achieve anything they want, regardless of where they come from. Given the stigma, I think it's a pretty…

straight razor?no thanks

I totally agree with your first statement. No argument there.

Do you not think it's a little demeaning to say "color/trans/whatever". It's a pretty flip way to talk about folks identities and the perspectives that come with them.

what an awful thing to say.