i'm middle aged and gave birth at 41. it's totally liberating, i don't have a thought about my pre-pregnancy body at all.

I feel the same way about middle-aged fashion. I clicked on the L.L. Bean megasale link that Jezebel was tempting me with a few weeks ago and I tried to resist this total mom sweater but I could not. I actually returned it for a bigger, boxier size.  I surrender to comfort.  It is freedom.

While I understand your point and agree that a deeper systemic change is needed rather than ‘normalising, brutally honest’ photos to advertise nappies or whatever, I am not ashamed to say that I saw these photos today and felt validated. I’m two years past ‘post-birth’ and as someone who was slim prior to my baby, it…

I just want this trend of everyone putting pictures of their naked bodies everywhere to stop. You’re never going to fix comparison and self-esteem issues by putting more things to compare people to out there. For every skinny girl, there’s an average girl going “ugh I’m ugly.” For every average girl, there’s a fat…

I am 37 and childless but I have to say I agree so far. They scare us in our 20s that we won’t get as much attention from men. But I’m really enjoying less and less attention. And I’m really enjoying not worrying about my body’s perfection. I exercise because it feels good. I eat healthy because it feels good and I…

 “But no one told me that the quote-unquote “loss” of that pre-baby body can be freedom. That you don’t realize how much you are imprisoned by your relative bodily proximity to, and striving toward, a mainstream ideal until you decidedly “lose” your ability to perform some piece of that ideal.”

Or, he’ll say he obviously isn’t racist because he was super attracted to her, but he never tried to kiss her because she is an animal. Without any acknowledgment of the cognitive dissonance.

Good synopsis. The movie also features Tony “I’m bigger than you so give me back that microphone, bitch” Robinson, who heroically hypnotizes Hal to teach him a lesson rather than simply being an advocate for women.

I dont think it is appropriate. I havent seen the movie in ages but, as I recall, it happened pretty quick and he got a bit tongue tied. If something like this were to ever happen in real life then I imagine the right words wouldnt come to mind quick enough. Not like he replaced her birth control with tic tacs or…

Here’s hoping his follow up is such a catastrophic failure that it instantly ends whatever career renaissance he might’ve once had.  

If he had set it primarily in Hollywood it probably would have won more Oscars.

I’m on board with everything you said except your last sentence. There are lots of Hollywood actresses who did just that with Harvey Weinstein and Woody Allen. I realize the Weinstein assaults were more serious than a kiss on the cheek, but the same psychology applies. Job security and working for someone famous (or…

After Jared Leto won an Academy Award before Claire Danes, I stopped considering it an evaluation of ones acting abilities. 

The hair gel scene in There's Something About Mary is an accident, and the damage is done before Ben Stiller realizes what's going on. Is it appropriate to call it a violation? Serious question. I've been thinking this over for at least 10 minutes.

I can. He made a white people solve racism movie.

The only good thing about Shallow Hal is that the basic foundation for all of the jokes is so unrealistic (that a 5'9 woman between 250-300 lbs would be constantly breaking furniture and have issues fitting inside things) that I’ve actually found it helpful when calling out irrational bias/double standards in…

He blamed the trailer for the uproar: “You may go in expecting an hour and 45 minutes of fat jokes, and you find out there’s 20 minutes of that. That’s when Hal’s shallow. After that, it’s really the slow growth of Hal into becoming a whole person.”

TELL IT.

Ughhhh like the bleached anus spewing filth that it is.