@shortfastloud: I'm not trying to censor the little twerp, I'm just saying that she hasn't earned the right to have silver hair, because she's not old or a supervillain.

@elephante:

@the zeeba is your mamacita: None. When I was 13, I didn't have time to follow trends, because I was in tenth grade and taking college prep English.

@elephante: First of all, I said upside the head, not in the face. Not the same thing. Secondly, I have never met a 13-year-old who doesn't need smacking upside the head for some reason, regardless of intelligence, including myself at that age.

@BrookeD: They removed the color on her legs because it was blotchy. Heck, I touch up my personal snapshots because my digital camera magically accentuates minor skin flaws to the point of making people who are attractive in person look grotesque in the pictures.

Exactly. If she wants a magazine like that, why doesn't she start one herself?

I shave my armpits because I live in Florida, so I sweat a lot, and I don't want funk sponges under my arms. Having perpetually damp armpits

@Polly Pocket: No kidding. I decided years ago my dream wedding would be to take a nice vacation, get married barefoot on a beach with a drink in my hand, then come back and send out wedding announcement/apology/reception invitations and have a big party in my garden.

@Zulkey: Which is sad.

@Zulkey: Hobo chic? That looks like somebody applied Turtle Wax to a brown paper grocery bag and then duck-taped it to an umbrella stand in a vaguely shoe-like configuration.

Jeeeezus, what a horrible 'shop. If a plastic surgeon did this to her, he/she would get sued within an inch of their life and lose their license.

@HannahBethD: It's a great read about women in ancient civilization, written in a light, humorous style, so that you don't get depressed about the fact that women are still putting up with the exact same shit from men they have since (literally) the beginning of recorded history.

Women who make beer rock.

@Pizza!Pizza!Pizza!: It's more fun to screw when you're not worried about having your body taken over by a parasitic growth that could eventually become a teenager.

@clockwise - counter: Arrgghhh. She sounds like a cross between Dana Carvey's Church Lady character and a blender with a motor that's about to burn out.

@LaComtesse: Different lighting and facial expression, perhaps? But the eye thing is no joke, my mother's droopy lids were partially obscuring her vision when she was in her late 70s.

@Thus Spake KATE!: I finally broke my little calico cat Chloe of her habit of jumping into my lap and sticking her butt in my face when I'm using the computer, so now she is standing by my chair, on her back legs, and patting at my lap with a front paw to let me know that's where she wants to sit... but it gets worse.

@Deneuverly: Obviously, your classmates don't realize the impossibility of setting aside money for future medical bills when you're scratching your head three days before payday because you have (LICE! kidding) only six dollars and you need it for bus fare, but you're hungry and out of groceries.

Oh, who gives a good god damn what a 3-year-old wears? She's a cute kid with a cute low-maintenance haircut and clothes to match.

Wow! Clothes that actual human beings can wear! In public! On a work day!