I agree with your point abou the dead-eye sexy face. However, I'd say it's pretty groundbreaking for a female pop singer at 55 to still be putting out #1 albums and putting on world tours that make more money than any other artist. She obviously feels sexy enough in her own body to do shoots like this, so why…

Yeah, I don't think this is commentary on forcing yourself to be attracted to someone who you're not attracted to. It's about letting societal pressure bully you out of being attracted to someone who you ARE attracted to.

Louie hit this one on the head. I've dated a lot of heavier girls and I've definitely felt the judgement from other men. The problem isn't that men don't like big girls; it's that men don't like the way other men look at them when they're with big girls. It's a societal issue that Louis illustrates flawlessly. It's…

When it's clear that he's only resisting to date you because you're fat, as it is very clear with Louie, then yes you absolutely should call him out on it.

Actually Lous CK has no idea what he's fucking talking about. We are born with implicit, nonverbal memory and these memories get lit up as adults all.the.time. Since they were encoded before the left brain, explicit, narrative parts of our brains come online, they are remembered nonverbally, in a "felt sense". And we…

Nope. Super funny in a movie or sketch show or quick prank with a really good friend. Not at all funny like this. I hope the penalties are harsh.

Baby girl born just last week. If this shit happened, I am afraid I might instantly transform into Dirty Harry or something.

To the people who thought this would be funny

That is so effed up, intellectually I know it's some stupid wi-fi internet hocus pocus but in those first months with a new baby you are so on edge and in such a super protective mode. I can't imagine the anxiety in that household. I hope they catch the "comedian" who did this and make an example of him.

Person with endometriosis here. You don't get that diagnosis because "nothing else" fits. It's a real disorder. They looked inside me 8 ways from Sunday to make sure.

Some people hate it when people break rules, other people don't really mind. Gawker doesn't care if people toke weed, but they hate it when people steal race bibs (see: this article) and rent out their apartments for a weekend (see: next article). Oh well!

Great post - are you a meter maid, IRS agent, Tsa Agent or Hall Monitor?

Exactly. Who were the victims here? Why should I care? Who gives a f*** if a bunch of insufferable marathoners are salty that they shelled out hundreds of self-satisfaction dollars and these people didn't? This post made very little sense.

if anything I like these people, but that's probably because of my distrust of marathon runners and my hatred of the city of Boston.

The husband was certainly aware of and thus a party to the murders. No one gets a woman pregnant seven times, watches her carry babies to full or near full-term, and then discovers the babies evaporate afters isn't in on it. He got discovered because his family members (not he) reported it to the police. This…

I agree with you about this being obsessive behavior. It seems like this was her form of birth control. But then, given how painful and dangerous childbirth is, you have to ask why she didn't just opt to avoid men, use actual birth control or have actual abortions. I think that she must have been compelled to "hoard"…

Actually, now I think about it, the fact that she would have been fully, visibly pregnant seven times and yet no one thought to investigate and find out what happened to the babies suggests that she was extremely isolated. It's very possible that there would have to be someone supporting her financially and keeping…

I have to wonder if there was an abusive husband situation. Yes, this was an evil and horrible thing for this woman to do, but I do have to wonder if she was with a man who would not use contraception or let her use contraception (reproductive abuse is a very real thing) and she just didn't know what else to do. Not a…

Thanks for sharing your story, so she can see how that decision does make a real difference to real people. She was irate, not just at the teachers, but at the students so willing to abandon their principles for something relatively minor as participation grades.

I'd really like to read a Friendzone that doesn't involve the writer backing away from, disconnecting from or discarding people. It's getting tired and in real life, most of us don't just dump friends or loved ones whenever they become "toxic" or maybe just a bit difficult.