@MissAmberDawn: Oh, no! I used to be able to buy their stuff, when I fell into the grey area between "regular" and "plus" sizes.... now they're running small?!? Oh, well... at least Costa Blanca still fits.

@LaFemmeLapwopwo: I don't know your size, but I am too big for many retailers (like Garage and Urban Behaviour), but too small for Addition-elle, and Jacob is a store where I can find jeans that fit. It has to be the largest size, but they fit. If you've been in there and know there is nothing for you, fair enough; my…

@onewanderingsoul: Same here. Never been "hit on", either. Good thing I like girls too, or I would die alone and get eaten by my seventeen cats.

It makes me uncomfortable that whoever drew the cartoon felt compelled to draw the woman as unattractive-looking as possible, to drive home the idea that men will do this to women no matter what they look like, and "it isn't about looks". I can't put my finger on why, but it does.

@Valkyrie607votesMizJenkins: It should, but in this sexist society, it often isn't. Sucks, huh.

@Valkyrie607votesMizJenkins: I agree with you, bvut I don't see it happening as long as women are seen as inherently nuturing beings who all desire children. Femininity and motherhood are so tightly curled up together, a doctor asking a woman seeking prenatal care; "Are you sure you really want this baby", seems…

@SquidIceCream: I am with CassandraSays (as usual). A person who can't accept that it's your body and your choice, is just not good relationship material, or a very good person, for that matter.

@chloros: I agree with Agumen, but I don't read hir comment that way. People are individuals, but our individual selves are like cells in the great organism that is society. We all exist as part of a whole; not just little squares floating around bumping into everything and affecting nothing, but pixels in a larger…

@BytheSea: I don't, yet, but I work as a nanny.

@BiggieShorty: Ooh, is that all for me, or is ByTheSea going to get some of that hot sticky lovin', too?

@lulusaysfyou: This. Playing with children is challenging. I find it to be stimulating work. Too many people think smiling and nodding is sufficient in interacting with kids, but it's really more like doing improv - it gets really interesting if you play "Yes, and...." with them.

@UrbanAchiever: People who say things like this think they are being admirable, but rarely come across that way. I have been a Madonna fan for twenty-six years and I have read a lot of gossip from "sources", and about 80% of it has turned out to be accurate in the end; pregnancies, tours, possible collaborators,…

@LaFabuliste: She never, ever does it. It's been like this since 2000.

@BytheSea: I appreciate where you are going with this. The more I read people tut-tutting and shaking their heads in the comments on that particular anecdote, the more I get the sense that they are projecting their discomfort with anal play in general. As if some types of sexual play are "better" or "more wholesome"…

@alex_xx: I have been a Madonna fan for twenty-six years, and that is still my favourite song.

@Crunchbird: One of the most notable differences between HG and Battle Royale is that in BR, it's all externalized, as if the reader were observing it all, without touching the character's inner lives. In HG, fifty percent of the experience is living inside Katniss' head, along with her. HG makes me feel, in a way…

@Dorisaurus: Also, Katniss doesn't wallow or revel in a self-indulgent manner in Peeta and Gale's caring for her. She is alternately agonized and annoyed by it. She doesn't cherish the position of being an object of desire; it's an inconvenience, an obstacle, or a necessary evil, but it's never portrayed as the…

@LindyLou: Why do they always have so lie to hyperbolically? It's like the fake gays or fake drug addicts or fake "former Wiccans" they have on their shows... it's never banal stories of "I was always passed out in public restrooms on smack, covered in my own filth", it's "I spent FIFTY THOUSAND dollars a day on…

@JulieSunday: I would agree with you, but whenever I see "choose to carry to term", I wonder how many of them made that choice begrudgingly, or were emotionally coerced, or bullied by their co-religionists, or just didn't think at all and just let life steamroller right over them without any serious contemplation.

@Sarah Beuhler: My thoughts exactly. Boo to them.