Yes. Something is going on there. I hope that the coaching change helps - I think that Frank is very rigid and disciplined, and that Gracie maybe needs someone more nurturing. She was built up so high by USFS, and I am starting to wonder if they gave her the tools and support to deal with that hype. It seems not.

I hope so too. I nerdily love watching her jumps when she is on, because her technique is perfect. There is also something sketchy about how Frank publicly dumped her.

That’s true. Maybe they could sift through the junior or novice ranks for a Nancy ;).

I think that it is pretty sketchy and, if it happens, is just going to alienate people from the sport more - it’s bad enough that no one understands the judging system. What are they going to do if the person who literally just won the competition that is touted as Olympic qualifiers fails to qualify for the…

Hah, there is a special place in my heart for the Cutting Edge.

Sounds about right. I’ve heard that she is awful to work with.

She’s well-known to be an awful person in the skating community. Terrible to work with (part of the reason why her broadcast career didn’t take off). In her competition days, she was a privileged little ice princess who definitely had talent, but was not incredible or worthy of legend by any stretch of the…

It’s called a spiral :). And yes, I agree.

Agreed on all points. Nancy was whit bread.

Virtual high-five!

I can see Courtney Hicks (even Gracie Gold, although she’s too big of a star - but her jumps are certainly big enough)(except she’d randomly double them all the time, thus being a nightmare to work with)(SORRY TOO SOON). It would theoretically have to be someone who could pull off a triple axel, which Gracie has…

As a former figure skater, I generally cannot stand figure skating movies and hope that this one liberally uses body doubles instead of painful scenes of the actresses stiffly doing crossovers around the rink while we pretend they are Olympic athletes.

My jaw literally dropped when I first saw that. It’s not even a man-opening-doors-for-woman thing. It’s like you wait for your partner before proceeding forward because it’s respectful.

I’m weaning myself off of philosophy as well (damn you, Time In a Bottle) and have had some success with the Ordinaries (SO CHEAP. SO GOOD). I’d suggest the Ordinaries Vitamin C products to make up for the vit c in Miracle Worker, plus maybe CeraVe to makeup for the good moisturizer.

Yeah, I don’t care about the frequent dumpster fire that was XoJane, but XoVain was excellent and I will seriously miss it.

I will stick with Diorshow just to avoid that hell of a name from Maybelline. Jeez Louise, get your copy department to calm the eff down. (Actually, I’ve been VERY into Urban Decay Perversion lately as well. It’s SOOO BLACK.)

So did I, which makes me cringe a little at critiquing them for taking selfies with their signs or in the crowd. I think that we can all agree that we would prefer a white teen to post to social media from a women’s march than post about the Starbucks latte she just bought. Our focus should be making sure that they…

I agree. Our next steps are to engage these women further. We have this platform, now we need to keep everyone involved.

This is the best idea. I’m moving into my first apartment on my own soon and will 100% be stealing this.

I was pleasantly surprised by how many men were at the NYC march. One of my favorite chants was a call-and-respond where the women shouted “My body, my choice” and the men responded “Her body, her choice.” I’ve been feeling very alone in this crazy country recently, and today was a good reminder that we have friends…