Well, this is awkward

When my daughter was 4, she was making a verbal list of things she was thankful for. This quote was in the middle of the list:

OMFG, can you imagine how this guy feels every morning when he wakes up, knowing he's going to get to go to work to take care of such epic cuteness????

send Life Alert to my house right fucking now because I am dead

Pup 681 for mayor.

This was the line that did my in too!

She's trying to help them out but then she gets really tired!

She's also really young so she'll help us out and try to learn but sometimes she just falls asleep because she gets really tired.

When a reporter asked Sandy Koufax why he retired so early, he told him, "because I want to be able to lift my arm high enough to shave."

Yeah, because I'm sure the neighbor boy reads Jezebel.

It's a comment on her confidence, accomplishments, gorgeousness, and general not-awkwardness. Most people are not cool at age 13, and she's super duper cool.

Well, 13 year olds have boobs and wear tank tops. There's nothing tacky about it. There's also nothing overtly sexual about it.

Thank you - absolutely love the way you articulated this point. Regardless of who's wrong here (for the record, I think everyone involved is wrong on some level), Hickox's method of communication and the attitude she's displaying is what's getting the attention. Sure, she's in a lousy spot and hasn't been treated…

I actually think they didn't really sexualize here here, and I was liking that about how she was styled. The makeup is very minimal, very natural, her hair is braided, no jewelry, she's wearing a ball cap. The only thing that is even suspect is the top and that is something many other 13 year old girls are wearing…

No.

I don't think so at all. I was actually thinking how nice it was that she was not sexualized.

I think she looks her age here—the styling is, as the headline trumpets, quite natural. What about this image feels sexualized to you?

I don't know why, but I cry with joy every time I see Mo'ne. Maybe it's because she's tough and fierce but totally nonchalant about it. She's just herself and it's awesome. It's like she never learned to hide her light under a bushel, never faked being less than she is so that she wouldn't intimidate people.

He did not show poor judgement. He was following the protocol of MSF, which has proved more than adequate as only 4 out of 300 returning health workers have contracted the disease, and not a single one has passed it to anyone else. The case in the Texas was a man who had been exposed and did not know the symptoms, not…

It's not even stupid people. I work in Navy public health and my coworkers - PhD, MD, MPH types - are all for mandatory quarantine! And I feel like all my risk communication training is useless if the knee jerk reaction is to lock everyone up even for just knowing how to correctly spell Ebola. (But let's not make…

I might be wrong, but she seems like kind of an asshole.