It doesn’t help that a) women are perceived as exaggerating their pain and b) there still persists a widespread sentiment that menstrual pain (along with the pain of childbirth) is essential to the experience of being a woman.

Shelter Cat Update!

I know it’s been said before but what is with the ads that take up the full screen!?

My kids are now fully vaccinated. They slept over at a friend’s place last night and then swimming today. It’s the first time I’ve been alone for more than a couple of hours in nearly 18 months. My godson is vaccinated and graduated HS this week. I’m going to spend a few days in Maine in about 3 weeks bc the boys will…

I’m still trying to come to terms with the shocking revelation of Tory Health Secretary Matt Hancock getting rather comfortable with his mistress during the pandemic (who has now resigned even after fellow adulterer and recently converted Roman Catholic Boris Johnson absolved him of his sins).

I’m taking my bisexual*, non-binary kid to dinner and a Shakespeare play tonight. Does that have any kind of room on any kind of agenda?

No gay activities over here, I finished a book, and am reading another book on my back porch right now, the wind out here feels really nice. I hope everyone out west is is keeping cool. It’s not too hot here in Southern New England, but the humidity is kind of oppressive.

You mean Prince William’s reassurance that no one in his family was racist isn’t true?????

Thank you, I can’t stand the smugness which is so dense you can smell it off of an internet comment when someone says, “Besides food deserts and medical conditions, fat is a choice.” There is so much arrogance fed FAT on ignorance in this type of smugness it’s hardly bearable, almost nearly as insufferable as 5…

This. If you go on a bizarre diet and f*ck up your metabolism, it stays f*cked. Particularly if you do this while your body is still developing. This is one of the reasons so many people are fat in the US....dieting fads targeted at teenagers. Teen girls convinced that fasting or whatever will help them lose 10…

60% of Americans have underlying or chronic mental or physical health disorders; that’s the majority of people. So except for medical conditions, medications, food deserts, lack of transportation, cost and access to healthy food, access to education about food consumption, time and cost of daily food preparation, time…

Courtney Cox has said she really enjoyed “Fat Monica” because she could let loose and didn’t have to be so controlled. I found that incredibly sad.

Fat jokes in general just need to go away. They are the tool of so many lazy writers and comedians.

And don’t forget all the fat jokes they made at her expense when she was skinny too. The whole reason she became a chef was because of her weight and a man told her to.

Not only that, and I say this as a Friends superfan in general, they act constantly like she was morbidly "My 600-LB Life"-level obese (“Hurricane Gloria didn’t break the porch, MONICA did!”) and the best they could do with a fat suit to portray her is one that most wouldn’t even give her a second glance about…

Does anyone remember that cringy trend of talkshow hosts being “brave” enough to sport fat suits in the real world? I vaguely remember Tyra crying because no one would help her at the makeup counter when she was in the body suit. Do you mean to tell me her stunning exposé did actually not solve the issue of weight…

Anytime I read Sarah Paulson having an opinion about body representation my eyes roll right on out of my head. She and the whole Ryan Murphy gang make beaucoup bucks on perpetuating the idea that people with physical disabilities (being played by actors without these disabilities) belong in the horror genre.

Also surprised this wasn’t mentioned in the article! I have a sense that because the fat suit was used in so many episodes of a long-running show, its use was arguably more harmful than in a single film. They actively joked about how unlovable and disgusting she was, TO THE CHARACTER’S FACE, in direct comparison to ad…

I can’t believe no one has mentioned “Fat Monica” from Friends yet.  We are supposed to laugh at Courtney Cox in a fat suit and see her as the butt of every joke.  Very traumatic for every teenage girl to watch!

...about Hemsworth’s fat suit while playing Thor. “The audience knows, actually it’s a super [muscular] fit guy, but look at how he’s fat here. The comedy is based on this gap between the very normative body and the fat suit.”