The amount of compliments I received in the worst days of my eating disorder was horrifying. Strangers, family members, friends - people practically glowed with approval of my sick body.

I remember that everyone would compliment my collarbones, tell me they made me look like a model.

Then I was playing with my…

So true! Luke and Lorelai's chemistry together was even worse than Rory and Dean's. Hard to watch. 😁 The Jim to my Pam?

Oh, I've got a good one for this.

Anybody else?

And so continues the pain of my mutual, apparently contradicting love for both Katy Perry and Jezebel...

Full discretion: I have a seriously irrational love for Katy Perry. My mother didn't hug me enough when I was a kid. Idk.

I have to tell you I actually felt like I was reading my own sister's words here. I'm younger than she is, and we are now on opposite ends of the country - I'm sure she worries about me as I know my illness always haunted her much more than it haunted me. For me, the teenage years were the worst because any damage to…

I feel like...

Oh thaaanks, you two. :)

I feel physically ill after reading all of that (in hindsight, I probably shouldn't have read it on my birthday. It's going to be at least an hour or so before I can be gleeful, appreciative birthday girl again).

This?

This one?

THIS.

I always rooted for that mom to be dead so Ted and Robin could end up together. I don't understand you people.

Isn't she, though?

I think images of real women, whether it be a mother who is constantly dieting/criticizing her body or an actress or model, have a stronger influence on young girls. And I think it's awesome that so many women can say Barbie didn't influence their personal body image...but that isn't always the case. I remember…

"...if people are hunched over silently biting their nails, it's probably not the best time to ask what "going for the extra point" means. There's nothing wrong with not knowing much about sports as long as you're present and enjoying yourself and the people around you."

Agreed. Especially when no other life is supposedly "sanctified" (cough*death penalty*cough). Ugh.

It's unproductive to expend our energy criticizing female pop stars for profiting off of their sexuality: they're just navigating an existing system, and if they don't do it someone else will.