I fucking hate this whole Dove campaign. Some of my left-wing friends (men, actually) were shocked to learn this about me. My real loathing comes from the fact that it keeps the conversation at "anyone can have access to beauty"; instead of "what you do and choose is more important than what you look like". I will…

Nice douche with hipster glasses in the background, Madgealicious.

@paperconservation101: I hope you do win. What an adventure that would be.

@Jorie Slodki: Defenders of the Duggars say that they deny being Quiverfull. Personally, I think that is just semantics. My impression is that their claim for not being Quiverfull is based on their belief that Quiverfulls procreate for political reasons, while they are simply "submitting to G-d's will". If G-d had…

I agreed to accept money for it.

@paperconservation101: My wife and I went nuts at that place when we were in Aus. City Chic ftw!

@AraRichards: Just this morning, I read a horrific tale of child abuse from a person whose father identified as an Objectivist. That school of thought warped his mind so much that it motivated him to alternately beat and abandon his wife and child and psychologically torture them, too. The victim to this day cannot…

@AraRichards: Rich white guy? Check. Callous? Check. Enjoys instant gratification (at other people's expense)? Check. Yup. Probably Libertarian.

@Tuesday-Boo: One of the reasons why I don't think A&F warrants as much attention as AA on these issues is because A&F doesn't claim to be an ethical company. AA hides their ugly lookist/sizeist underbelly with a facade of paying (sometimes undocumented) workers a living wage and being "vertically integrated". I have…

@thisiswhatweknow: His looks are so insanely relevant to this discussion. He is the one who made looks paramount, and gave important admin jobs to girls with no actual qualifications. He is the one who decided that people are worthless unless they have a hot ass and no gag reflex. It's not right for people to wield…

@esprit-follet: Alyssa is a super-extra-mega-fan of Madonna's. She is extremely active on twitter, gets addressed in tweets by Guy Oseary and Jesus Luz (aka "Special J"), and because of her online activities got special attention from Madonna at Coachella back in '06 or whatever year she was there. Creating this was a…

Oh yay, Alyssa's video made it here! I knew her before she was youtube-famous. It is fascinating to see the discussion her little project has wrought.

@Phyllis Nefler: I see your point, but I seriously doubt that honestly close friendships between basically good kids are the problem. Other commentors are right; this amounts to valorizing extroversion.

@heymisslayla: Haha, actually Diana sorta-kinda ditched Anne. She got married and had children first, and although Anne was very happy for her, she also felt twinges at Diana outgrowing girlhood and taking on family obligations.

This is just another example of "educators" pandering to the perceived needs and habits of the top echelon of students in the social hierarchy and ignoring the existence of everyone who doesn't fit in there. As if the people like me, who were nerdy and weird and bullied, are about to form exclusive cliques based on…

@msridiculous447: You write exactly what I was going to. My best friend (who I met at school, thanks very much) is a soulmate to me, and I agree that schools should not be playing this role in kid's lives.

@megazona: Actually, being a Mormon, she probably isn't allowed to think about anyone other than her husband in a sexual way. Aren't they one of the groups who thinks that thinking about other people sexually is morally exactly the same as cheating on your spouse?

@anibundel: Agreed. *sadface*

@FatBottomedGirl: Correction; you have awesome, well-rounded kids with broad cultural appetites. Bravo.

@Heather_yeah: It's interesting that you used the word "girly", and not "off limits" in reference to dolls. Imagine if children learned that they could freely encompass and act out either gender, so even if a boy DID think dolls were "girly", he wouldn't see anything wrong with being girly for fifteen minutes and…