1. The ACLU is not a political organization. It’s not liberal, or democrat, or republican, or green. This is extremely important and it’s maybe the biggest misconception about the ACLU

You owe me 10 cents for the wet wipe I just had to use on my screen after spitting food on it. Thank you for making me laugh.

Right??? The immediate escalation from men is “I hope you get raped” or similar instead of the more reasonable “fuck you”, which seems polite by comparison.

Going to put “woke boners” to good use. Thank you for that.

Don’t you know we’re supposed to be grateful that a pale man in pink shorts and flabby arms would deign to touch our horrible bodies???

I’m beginning to think that I should get some ties to Russia! Don’t want to miss out on all those sweet rubles!

There are billions of people on earth. Odds are, you’d find someone else if you wanted to, so there isn’t one be-all, end-all person. If you’re ready to stop dating and one is good enough to meet your needs, get married. If you’re not quite ready, then don’t get married. It sounds very utilitarian but we don’t need…

10/10 would buy.

You’re a black man, I’m a white woman. I defer to you.

But the 1000 or so other black men in the NFL aren’t making Vick money or Tom Brady money. They’re making a league minimum, their careers last less than 6 years. If you were a black man who never finished college and are lucky to have made it onto an NFL roster, do you speak up and risk getting cut in the off-season?…

all brown people who speak Spanish are Mexican, obviously.

That was my big revelation when I started the whole “taking care of myself” thing. I stopped using food to deal with anxiety or sadness for the most part.

It’s also hilarious coming from someone who grew up in Santa Monica, not exactly Des Moines.

He was heavily marginalized at his Santa Monica high school and at Duke because apparently being vocally a racist and nationalist piece of shit doesn’t make you Most Liked. One of my best friends was in his year at Duke and attests to him being as shitty a person as you’d imagine.

Sign me up for all these things.

Agreed, and you’re right, on an individual level. But as a society, we have consequences when our people aren’t healthy. Someone doing heroin doesn’t affect me personally but a community who has a heroin problem sees the aggregate effects from that. This is why I also think that it’s not about judging or addressing…

Such a great response. We aren’t addressing the underlying issues that make it so difficult for people to maintain their health, and I mean everything from blood pressure to mental health.

Thank you! Just ordered Two Whole Cakes on Amazon.

To explain, I didn’t mean “how do I personally intervene?” I meant as a society, how do we reconcile these two competing thoughts of 1. You’re beautiful and worthy at any weight and 2. You’re empirically unhealthy if your weight is in one extreme or the other?

100% agree with all of this.