It's going to be a real bummer if the response to serious political pieces is a drop in circulation and a cry for 102 more ways to make his toes curl.

I was totally going to post something along those lines, but I got nervous about being hit with waves of criticism. For me and people like me, being overweight was a sign of eating almost solely high-fat processed foods and rarely exercising. Doctors' semi-indifference to weight gain as being a potential symptom of…

That's a veiled S&M reference? Huh. I wouldn't have picked up on that at all. Makes me wonder what other subtleties are in profiles that I'm just not picking up on.

Hold up, you live alone and you have a maid come in every week? Man. Are you a slob for making that many maid-worthy messes, or am I a slob who doesn't recognize the need for a maid?

This makes me wonder how many women shut up about their longing for domestic bliss when they're around guys (even those guys who are platonic guy friends). In my group of six closest female friends, all of whom are fun-loving professional women, three frequently reference how they want to be married and on the…

OK. We get it. Husbands like you exist. This article is not about husbands like you. I'm sorry if you get irritated when you see generalizations—that are about, you know, actual trends that are true of the general public—but I get irritated when I see people getting standing ovations, as you are here, for behaving…

80%?! Will any women even be physically capable of qualifying?

Anyone have a good sense of how many women will actually be able to qualify to be SEALs? I know little about the physical requirements for entry, besides the fact that—obviously—they're difficult.

Oof. Marti Noxon? She was the one behind some pretty messed up (and overall shitty) latter-season plotlines, when Whedon was too busy working Firefly to be on quality control duty. Back when I used to read TelevisionWithoutPity, the recaps were all curses on her name and plaintive calls for Whedon's return. This might…

Small boutiques compete by offering those sizes that VS doesn't. The business model for VS is offering a lot of variety to women in the 32A-38D range. As you've pointed out elsewhere, that excludes quite a few women. That's fine with VS, because they're making their money selling the same women multiple styles at…

I think the fact that your quoted passage, which provides quite a lot of evidence supporting an anti-porn argument, comes from Jezebel would argue that Jezebel doesn't unilaterally support porn.

I honestly don't understand what this means. We have "a left skew" in primary education, when schools in some states are required to teach creationism alongside evolution? We have "a left skew" in secondary education, when proposals for national social studies standards that teach about the Native American history and…

OK—but do you think there's really enough demand for 36K bras to justify the costs for VS in producing and stocking them, in the hopes that you or the very few people who share those measurements will stop by? Women who are 4'10 have to get clothes tailored. Men who are 400 lbs can't buy jeans at Abercrombie. This is…

Not to derail the discussion, but I'd argue that the problem lies in the fact that few people are required to get a well-rounded education—be that math or science courses, if you're a history major, or writing and history courses, if you're a science major.

I'm a little confused by the point you're making here. Glamour does a lot of trashy coverage ("30 days to a perfect bikini bod!") and so does Esquire ("Sexiest woman alive!"), but Esquire is viewed with far more respect than Glamour. That's the topic of conversation. Doesn't that explain why Cosmo and Glamour are…

Yes! Completely! I'm a teacher, and I definitely feel a similar daily "don't fuck up lives today" pressure. I think back longingly when I remember that the worst consequence for half-assing something in college was a hit on my GPA.

I agree. We need to stop messaging that college is this monumentally stressful period in your life—it just sets up college students for huge disappointments when they breeze through the four years, think they're hot shit ("That was supposed to be tough? Pshaw!") and then crash and burn in the real demands of the…

Isn't what he's saying that if everyone made a movement to patronize those not-highly-visible lingerie stores, they would become highly visible from the increased business?

I'm reminded of the Ainsley Hayes character from The West Wing, a Republican woman brought on as White House counsel (and to diversify viewpoints on the show). The episode where she passionately opposes the Equal Rights Amendment—"Who's saying I'm not equal already?!"—makes me grind my teeth.

Are we really saying the U.S. college system is too rigorous? I don't know about you guys, but even working jobs between classes for four years, I felt like I didn't really understand sleep deprivation and stress until after graduation. College is a cakewalk compared to real life.