I feel like there's a political allegory to be found somewhere in "if a customer tells you to grill a steak until it's tender, you grill it until it's tender".

those white things inside that gooey intestine are baby tapeworms, right?

No, they are totally not joking about DEWitos.

Elle was not being offensive, but the fashion industry is.

And along with that, months before our other cat, a fluffy black girl, finally succumbed to her hyperthyroidism. She went outside one day and never came back, as cats do. I never saw either one of them again after that Christmas in 2012 :(

So sad :(

OMG THIS, exactly this, this is EXACTLY what they do, and it would be quite lovely and not bad or annoying at all if it weren't a personal ego stroke that sends some very mixed/wrong messages!

Exactly. Neither side has it terribly good here (it's wasn't that great, having been a single woman who was expected not to initiate any sort of courtship, either) and I don't really think either side gets to blow up their self-pity as something special, unique or really all that different.

Sadly it doesn't surprise me at all. The same thing happens when you try to talk about women's issues - the second you try, even though your opinions are not anti-men or misandrist of whatever, you get shouted down for being a "feminazi".

This song either means nothing, or is basically one long, stupid, dirty joke.

I agree, but I do not think the link between that and "a different kind of self loathing than in women" is a logical one, sorry. I really don't. And there are enough men out there who, if asked, may say "I"m not perfect" but when rejected act like they think they are, or at least like the rejection is entirely the…

I'm not so sure about that, just because I've heard men whine about the friend zone but never really heard a female friend do it.

I know a few - usually a variant of "why doesn't he liiiiiiike me, he always dates those skinny bitches even though our friendship is so greeeeaaattt when will he seeeeee".

My story isn't the creepiest out there, but I can say for sure that it's true.

She can't relate, through song, the experiences she may have had with slender friends complaining often about being "fat"? Hearing that would be her own experience, after all.

Just as she can't speak for every thin woman, neither do you, even if you are one. She may well be referencing her many "skinny" friends who DO think they're fat, and they don't not exist just because you don't feel that way.

The song doesn't mock skinny girls. Did you miss the "I'm bringing booty back / Go ahead and tell them skinny bitches that / **Nah, I'm just playing, I know you think you're fat, but I'm here to tell you that every inch of you is beautiful from the bottom to the top**"?

Pretty sure the USMC can't offer that stuff either. Or the Army - if you join them, you probably won't get to fight a dragon on a chessboard with a flaming sword.

Huh. Our rescue cat was "free" for the first year of his life, or most of it (we think he may have been a dumped kitten - he was approximately 1 when we rescued him). He is NOT interested in freedom and is terrified of even the elevator opening in the hall (he likes to go in the hall but at the slightest noise will…

An abusive spouse would be a problem because they'd likely just force you to hand over the phone to install it. An ex, though, wouldn't be able to get to your phone to do so.