“In the times when I’m feeling empathetic towards Kim Kardashian, and thinking about the strange and largely unprecedented life she leads, the closet cleaning is precisely what my mind drifts to, a sad relinquishing of personality to accommodate: (A), her man, (B), her self-absorption, which reads to me as having a…

The biggest mistake I made after being date-raped was to tell my mom and older sister. They both blamed me 100% ‘for putting my myself in a dangerous situation.’ When I told my friend that I did not want to go to the cops because I knew they’d treat me like shit and my rape kit would sit for years untested anyways (my…

Oh yes, I should have mentioned I had to order 2 sizes up for everything (luckily on Amazon the product reviews pretty much all said that). Size chart is totally off, but I do love the quality of the product.

FWIW: Yummie by Heather Thompson makes my absolute favorite maxi slip ever. So comfortable, breathable and slimming, perfect for layering underneath sheer maxi dresses in the summer to make them work-appropriate. They are extremely well-stitched and hold up to multiple washings.

Thanks for writing this. As a woman, I often forget that guys too have this ideal that is set before them of how a person ‘should look’ in order to be attractive/ fit/ whatever. We internalize it, this physical ideal, and judge ourselves worthy or not based on an arbitrary and unfair scale. It is self-torture. And if…

Why, Why, WHY is a victim-blaming and a trolling burner name comment the first comment in the sight, approved and in the black, when the rest of us who make thoughtful comments and have been on Jezebel for YEARS languish in the greys? WHY?

+1 for using ‘amortized’ in a sentence.

I am sorry; I have been there before, that crushing loneliness. Pets help. They really do. If you can: get a cat, a hamster, a rat, hell even a goldfish. A living creature, however small, that relies on you for food and care daily. It really does help just a little bit to fill the void.

“If Lady Gaga walks a runway and the audience cannot recognize her, does Lady Gaga walk the runway?”

If you hate needles/surgery, they actually have a no-needle, no scalpel vasectomy surgery (you can google it). 20 minutes in the doctors office and then you go home. It’s really not that bad at all. But you got to shop around and do your homework. When it comes to your balls, don’t go for the discount doctor.

In 1973, Jim Danforth, the chair of the Visual Effects committee (and stop-motion animator - he did the stop motion for When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth and Clash of the Titans) decided along with the committee to not award one for that year because all the candidates for the award were NOT deemed ‘worthy’ (They had…

Aw, me and my bumpy vagina thank you (from a safe distance of course).

It depends on your insurance, the cost of vasectomies and freezing of sperm, at least here in the US. My guy did not have insurance at the time and paid out of pocket. $3 grand total.

One response: HERPES.

Yeah, I mean it is not a perfect option nor an option for every single guy -my man had to save up for his procedure, it wasn’t the cheapest thing in the world - but probably about as expensive as an abortion here in the US, so 6 of one half dozen of another. And I guess a lot of people aren’t informed that it is a…

But...vasectomies are reversible. If you don;t want it reversed, you can freeze the sperm before you have one done if you want to have a baby in the future.

Thank you so much for this. It is an excellent piece, and I am grateful to have read it.

Bella also changed her nose quite a bit (yes, that is Bella Hadid in both these pictures). It makes me sad, because her ‘before’ nose looks exactly like mine—and apparently is not considered ‘pretty’ enough for public taste.

Yay! So glad you are back! Definitely my favorite series. I’ve never heard anyone describe half a Bay Leaf as a ‘flavor grenade.’ Priceless.

I’m glad I could help!! Big changes are tough and scary, and lord knows I cried quite a bit too. I remember moving from NY to California—that was scary as all get-out. I knew no-one, had never even visited before. It’s hard to step into something that is totally unknown and make a big career change at the same time!…