I'm not sure it's totally standard. Banana Republic had a fairly lax dress code when I worked there. Tattoos were okay as long as they weren't offensive, I wore all sorts of gaudy baubles (I had a major thing for stacking bangles back then), and you could wear pretty much anything you wanted as long as it was clean,…

Don't listen to girlwonder; go with the Bears! It makes every game day so much more entertaining!

Yep, every person wearing short shorts is basically just telegraphing "hump me." Pardon me, I have to go remove my eyes from the back of my head now.

This is how my hair looks after my weekly volleyball game, though...she pays someone to look better than I do after jumping around in the sand and humidity for an hour.

Ha! Wonkette's takedowns of idiot journalists are the best parts of my day. I think the Peggy Noonan ones are my favorite, though; Cohen's almost too easy at this point.

I'm fairly sure the sentiment in your first comment was, "why don't we call men out on this shit like we do women?" THAT I agree with. If that wasn't your sentiment, then word your comments better next time when you make a third burner account.

Bill Murray would probably approve of you beating a lady up.

I recall reading somewhere that people who are just "naturally thin" despite what they eat are often unconscious fidgeters - always tapping their fingers, shaking their legs, etc, so they burn calories even sitting at a desk. I always wondered if there was any truth to that.

Seriously, watch "Don't Trust the B—-". He has what is probably the one of best performances of an actor starring as themselves ever. The man has self-awareness down.

Agree with the sentiment, but Drake actually is black, and I don't see him trying to act/rap "ghetto", as you put it. If we're going to call out any rapper for that, let's start with Kanye.

"Isosceles bigotry" - I lost it. COTD.

People DID complain back then. All of this was predicted.

I read the Post article too. I'm happy for those women, regardless of the probability that they feel that they need to be thin and/or strong in order to please society's judgments. I'm genuinely happy for anyone that feels healthy and happy and fit and attractive the way they are. I also think people who don't look…

Belligerence? I've left you all of two responses that contained mostly questions, some (I thought, but clearly not) humorous sarcasm, and acquiescence to your underlying premise. I didn't double down on fire as a defining feature and I think I made it pretty clear my disagreement here is with your terminology and not…

Nope, I'll agree to nothing, especially now that I know you're a dude who is just trying to uphold what you consider sexy lady standards. I wouldn't have agreed to anything anyway, but at least now I know the argument is futile, so no further discussion needed. Keep fighting the good fight, though, man! I'm sure in a…

I think you've misunderstood my point. You clearly understand how these aesthetic ideals form and change over time, but you seem perfectly happy with this status quo. That is fine for you. It's not fine with everyone else. You derailed an article about female beauty standards and how they can negatively affect women…

Ha! I considered picking apart that response piece by piece, and got so overwhelmingly bored with the whole thing I just stopped. You summed up my feelings perfectly.

A really important note I stupidly forgot to include in this entire discussion: I think this article focuses on the least offensive and most inane parts of his theories - sure, the sleeping bag thing is pretty gross, and he's egotistical, but so what? - rather than what's actually problematic about them. I think the…

MRAs aren't born angry. They're born entitled, become bitter through rejection or perceived slights against their entitlement, and then get angry. There's a pretty obvious trajectory of how someone becomes an angry male MRA, is all I'm saying, and this guy is certainly on that train. This recent backlash against…

So you believe in big flying reptiles that could have killed a person had we lived at the same time. That's cool, and though I think it's unlikely, it's not like there aren't examples of similar creatures (your cute little lizards in the OP, pterosaurs, and the like). But you can't just arbitrarily redefine dragon in…