Would love to hear more of your impressions of the protests, the kind of support this is getting, etc. Please check back in and write about it!

Wait...you say that we all react differently and then you criticize someone for reacting differently? Cognitive dissonance much?

The article very clearly depicted Jackie as lost, traumatized and indecisive about her next steps after being brutally gang raped by men and a glass beer bottle, and then given zero support by the group of social climbers she had fallen in with during her first few weeks of university.

I'm checking this show out on the Charlie Rose description alone.

Essentially, yes. The taxes on luxury items in China are quite high. So purchasing an Apple product in the US is much cheaper than purchasing an Apple product in Beijing. What a lot of people will do when big sales or new products come out (because there are generally also delays in getting new products to the…

I have never seen this show and don't know much about this man, but oh my God. There's a mid-fuck gif up on dlisted right now and I am entranced. Man knows how to grind it.

Naw, pretty sure that just means you're poor and lazy (jk) ;)

I agree with pretty much everything you're saying, especially the part about accepting the reality of obesity and refocusing our efforts on lifestyles. We do seem to have differed on our definitions of normalization. I think what I was trying to convey is that the trends of obesity indicate that it is becoming the…

Thank you for the recommendations!

I agree with the spirit of your post. I don't believe showing plus-sized models are going to 'normalize' obesity or we're at least so far off from that possibility at this point that it's a bit ludicrous.

You and your mom sound like fantastic people. It's seriously wonderful that you were helping her navigate her reentry into dating after the passing of your father.

I would say that 'talking about our feelings' is probably the least constructive part of this thread or the Israel-Palestine conversation, writ large. Not that I'm not interested in your perspective - and yes, I would agree that you fall on the moderate side of this spectrum, at least vis-a-vis the default position…

THANK YOU. I replied elsewhere but it'll probably stay gray forever.

BAH, repeat after me: it's not about 'European' standards of beauty. These existed in China far before European/Western features became fetishized in the late 1980s.

I'm late to this reply, but I wanted to do so anyway since I know how frustrating the experience could be. Don't know if you'll find this helpful, but I switched to Erno Laszlo cleanser and toner after my skin went bonkers - very deep cysts - after I moved (different climates, different pollution levels, etc) about…

Apologies - there's a time difference so I didn't see your reply! Before I respond, I just want to say that I appreciate the degree of civility in our discussion. It's clear we're not going to agree (maybe ever) on this particular topic, but dialogue is important <— I'm going to go ahead and say that Conflict…

Irrespective of whether you or I would use food wrappers or toilet paper or billboards for the purpose of foreign policy education, Conflict Kitchen does (food wrappers and social media that is, I've yet to seen a line of TP). As one of those critics, what would be your suggestions for working in that format? To be…

I respectfully disagree. The basis for your previous critique is that this is a monologue, not a dialogue. However, if printing the realities of living in the occupied territories on food wrappers opens dialogue between people - which could quite literally consist of a conversation between two patrons - then…

That's potentially because the pro-Israel narrative of this complicated issue is represented, frequently without challenge, in American media. The simple act of representing neutral to sympathetic facts about the Palestinian plight may strike you as one-sided, but it's hardly a blip on the radar given that they're…

That's untrue, but it's possible you haven't spent all that much time in New York these days.