I remember watching an old interview with her on The Dick Cavett Show. He offered to light her cigarette and she declined. He...well he didn’t quite roll his eyes but he chuckled and said something to the effect of oh right you’re a feminist. To which she said it’s not that she doesn’t like men doing things for her…

Or how about the feigned ignorance to get out of anything? “How do I make spaghetti? So I put the water in the pot? How much? What is ‘boiling?’” I’ve found myself yelling “I REFUSE TO BELIEVE YOU ARE THIS INCOMPETENT” to soooo many men (my father, brother, husband, some random co-workers, etc.)

As teenagers, at some point every summer my brother and I would help our father load bales of hay onto the back of a truck. . . . Hot work. But when it was time for a break, I also got to make lunch for the men folk! YAY!

I was also hurt when Sean mansplained that use of the word mansplaining was “not fun for men.” Not fun for us, either, honey.

I’m interested the most in hearing everyone’s smallest ones. One of mine, for example:

How many testaments does she have room for? Because I have many.

Maybe she should ask her son to explain to her how this is sexist, since it’s something he feels so strongly about.

Sean is somewhere trying to mansplain to his mother how this hurts him, in his special manly place.

Sooo... not dressing to make yourself look conventionally attractive is a sign of disrespect?

“Shouldn’t we all strive to look our best?” What? Why? For who?

The problem with “flattering” is that what it usually means is dressing in a way that gets you as close as possible to an arbitrary and impossible patriarchal beauty standard. It essentially asks women to apologize and compensate for what we naturally look like. We should strive to dress in ways that make us feel good…

I think Christian is just genuinely more talented than most of the other designers. When you really know how to make clothes and are good at it you can make clothes for anyone. And that it what he did, pretty consistently.

I get annoyed at the tip, “wear all one colour, it lengthens you/makes you look taller.” I’m 5'2", I don’t give two shits about looking taller — it’s just not something I’m self-conscious about. I just have a big personality that makes me seem taller. ;)

Counterpoint: I wear a 24/26 and I think Tim Gunn should shut the fuck up about what fat women want to wear, because we are not a goddamned monolith.

Counterpoint, part two: I am 43 years old and I love almost everything Tipton makes. I want to wear pretty much allll of her clothes.

“Not all of us want that” - so, you…

I agree. I hate the idea of dressing to be “flattering.” I was fairly thin most of my life but was always uncomfortable about my body in some way. Now I’m a 14/16, so on that verge between regular and plus size, and I’m finding that I just don’t care anymore if you can tell that I have a big round belly. I can still…

I’d also love to see some clothing collections that acknowledge the fact that women’s weight distribution is not always uniform. My boobs are a regular c cup and I can’t tell you how many times a dress fits on the bottom but not the top. My colleague who wears the same size as me has the opposite problem, busty with…

A fucking white button down that doesn’t immediately pop open at my boobs.

As a fat person, I would really like to see decent basics. A fucking white button down that doesn’t immediately pop open at my boobs. Jeans that aren’t jeggins- or “mom jeans”. Tee shirts and cardigans that aren’t priced 3 times as much as the skinny version (ahem-Old Navy) Just plain, well tailored clothes. Jesus, is…

I chafe (har har) a bit at the idea that all women must always be dressing to make themselves appear slimmer all the time, and above all else, and that that goes without saying. I’m not plus-size, so I don’t want to speak for them, but I think you’d be hard-pressed to find a woman of any size without some body…