—For a man to openly reject a woman because he found her fat would be social suicide.—

I know this line of thinking is popular but it makes me laugh. It’s basically just an excuse for most women to not date a man for his height by hiding behind the so-called personality flaw that comes from said height. Besides, short guys have every right to be furious that they’re not being selected because of their…

I’m a pale, pale white girl, so when I went to India not long ago there were SO MANY women (strangers!) of all ages coming up to me asking how I kept my skin “so lovely and white” and touching my face, caressing my arm, etc!

Always takes it to anothe level when a major corp is pushing it.

Yeah I got to that line and I stopped reading.

Skin lightening is big business in India.
Colorism is supremely important in love, work and life there.

I was like uh... Outdated tradition? Lost in Translation? Oh you must be North Indian.

I get that the execs were being assholes but at the same time it's hard to get behind the idea that she was being original with her intended ending when she blatantly admits to ripping it off from someone else.

My grandmother used to tell me to rub turmeric on my arms to remove the hair. It doesn’t work and the turmeric will dye your skin yellow

I’m not sure Carrie really needed very much updating — outspoken religious fundamentalists in the public school system haven’t really gone away, and the core of Carrie’s HS experience is non-stop bullying, which is about as contemporary a theme as you can get. She’s “that weird poor kid in the back of the class.”…

Yeah, like...please. Indians in front of a camera tell quite a different story, right?

I dunno, if they’re going to remake Carrie, I think you should do it by updating the source material to the religious fundamentalists of today. That means home schooled Carrie, big Quiverfull family Carrie, intense church relationship Carrie.

Having light skin is a HUGE deal in India. Anybody who tells you otherwise either has light skin or is in denial.

This is what I do not understand about registries- a $60 cheese knife? Why would I ask my friends and family to buy things for me that I won’t even remember in 6 weeks? (Not to say that a $60 cheese knife is inherently ridiculous, but every registry has shit on it you know the couple doesn’t care about at all).

How do people like this handle real life???? I really don’t undersand.

I can’t help but think that dear Cathy would be better off putting all her energy into getting a job rather than merging her life and finances with another underemployed person.

Wait, what? You don’t think Catherine has done anything wrong in this situation? Fuck your special day, Catherine, if you are defaulting on loans that you asked your aunt to cosign while asking for Kate Spade towels.

C’mon. I can have a raging ladyboner over P&P and still not want to give myself pneumonia wearing a wet tissue-paper-thin dress.

I know it’s not the Victorian Era but I finally watched “The Magdalene Sisters” which is a film based on a true story of Irish women being interred at a wash house. One woman was there for having a baby out of wedlock, another for getting raped by her cousin, and the last for flirting. Flirting. Highly recommend…

Maybe I’m just not a romantic, but there’s no time period I’d rather live in than this one. Or maybe the future. But right now we have disposable tampons, birth control, antibiotics, air conditioning, divorce laws, safe abortions (where available) and surviveable c-sections. I’m a cynic and I bitch a lot about what…

I read an article by a woman whose husband was transgender, and she wrote very movingly about how left behind and hurt she felt, and all alone because she was supposed to be smiling and supportive of the journey at all times. It’s very alienating to have somebody basically lie to you about your entire life together…