I've have many friends who are somehow involved (some at fairly high levels) with Sacramento, and interestingly enough, a few friends in Silicon Valley. As far as I know, Whitman's reputation as a bully is already pretty solid in those circles.

I hope this doesn't count as bodysnarking - but I clicked on the link to see the large photo only because I thought I saw the outline of her sternum so clearly even in the thumbnail, and I was hoping I was wrong and it was just a weird t-shirt. Nope.

My late grandma, the last time she came to the USA from back home, brought me a v-neck long-sleeve periwinkle Express shirt as a present. I hate long sleeves, periwinkle looks hideous on me, and I've worn that shirt only once (for my grandma to see me in it). It was the last thing she gave to me before she went back…

@Taegre: Lots of my friends wear Indian formal wear to western weddings and look totally gorgeous and appropriate. On the flip side though, I would feel weird, being not Indian, wearing that to an Indian wedding unless I was part of the bridal party or it was specified on the invitation (which it's usually not, in my…

@Diziet_Sma: I think it's a misconception that tattoo = wild, impulsive, risky. It took a year of serious consideration before I got my first tattoo, and I asked to inspect the autoclave as soon as I walked in. My tattoos are actually one of the less impulsive and risky things I've done.

Maybe someone has already mentioned it downthread, but one thing that particularly irked me about this article was this line: "Is there a reason I should want a tattoo, or want my wife to have a tattoo?"

@KungfuKid: OMG thank you for saying that. I become strangely gleeful when people I disagree with are accused of being fallacious. Also add to that list: anybody who isn't upper-middle class.

@Norma Neufner Lady Officer: It's not speculation. 1) BFF worked on a shoot where they had to deal with this and 2) well-known fact in this town anyway.

Definitely photoshopped: two of the actresses refuse to be on the same photoset together, and so the photographer has to take separate shots and then stitch it together for any full group shots.

@Uhuh.: I had the same experience, but at a modern-day movie/theatre costume exhibit. I always "knew" that actresses are tiny things, but I didn't viscerally understand how tiny until I saw the costumes in real life. The mannequins that they had the costumes on were only marginally bigger than child-size.

A sociology 101 student could rip this study to shreds, as a sampler:

@Flackette Goes Retro: The access issues are what worry me (um, on top of the toxic WTF-ery of everything else), even if the directors claim that no babies were harmed. Aren't NICU's always lock-down? In fact, some hospitals I've been in, all mother-baby units are lock-down because of baby-stealing.

@PilgrimSoul: Actually, I know many very well-adjusted people who quite often don't build up their self-esteem at the expense of someone else. I think that's the real definition of self-esteem: when you can value yourself for yourself, and not simply in relation to others.

@imaginaryheroine: permanently cold SoCal gal here, totally feel you on the drafty clubs. That's why the beer jacket exists, I guess.

I saw a therapist for a while, and towards the end she strongly suggested that I distance myself from my parents, and added that she doesn't often suggest that course of action.

@Ratinski: Their chocolate chip cookies are AMAZING, and I've yet to find a restaurant that can produce a creme brulee that surpasses CI's. But for cakes I refer to The Cake Bible, I think it's a prejudice I got from my mom.

@maria_hecht002: I think that might be an old-school Vermonter thing. My boyfriend is from a small town in Vermont and warned me about reticent farmer-types.

@boxspelunker: Actually, it's not that they're trying to describe me so that I could be found, sorry I wasn't clear. It's that I've had supervisors (who know my name) and clients (who also know my name) describe me in that way to my coworkers, rather than using my name. I know my male coworkers don't get described by…

@starrlexxdiva: at my last office (super casual non profit), we had a new employee who dressed like that, with the addition of ridiculously expensive designer bags - Marc Jacobs, Balenciaga-which, not to be classist, is inappropriate when you work at a non-profit whose clientele is the working poor. People would say,…

@tinyalice: Naturalizer MBT Tunisia I have them and they look a little orthopedic on their own but under long-ish pants you can't tell. I wore them for a week in the field for up to 10 hours a day, and they're great. Caveat: not great if you do a lot of walking uphill, though, b/c of the negative heel incline.