I already had intellectual reason to dismiss it. The day I emotionally let it go was the day my doctor found I was an inch taller than I thought I was and I immediately went from “overweight” to “healthy.” When one unknown inch makes the difference between “you’re gonna live to be 90!” and “you’re gonna die…

I don’t understand how it’s supposed to be more accurate than a height-weight chart. It’s just a a different height-weight chart.

Starred for calling The Craft mediocre. Sorry, but it was.

I Googled Tess Holliday after reading other comments because I’d never heard of her. Comments I found were very concerned about Ms. Holliday’s health, but simultaneously adamant that size zero models shouldn’t be featured anywhere, either. Given my experience with the picture of the size 6 model, this puts the…

I love when they post the “PROMOTING OBESITY” comments under pictures of non-obese women. I saw that under a “plus size model” who looked like me, so I was fairly confident that she wasn’t even overweight on the BMI scale (these guys love the BMI scale), much less obese. Silly me tried to explain this but no,…

Because we’ve internalized the unspoken principal that having beauty is one of the two most important things in our society (the other being money.) You should see people freak out when I state the fact that I am not pretty. (Yes, yes, it’s subjective blah blah. There are criteria generally acknowledged to constitute…

LOL, I got bit in the butt recently during a student government revolt against the U president. I was rolling my eyes at them when I remembered that time during my own student days when I tried to rally the Women’s Resource Center into storming the president’s office.

I was just thinking that people who let this kind of shit slip when they know it will get them in trouble, are saying the worst things imaginable when they know it won’t.

I watch the last hour of this movie whenever I need to get psyched up for something difficult.

I just learned about it yesterday (I work in academia.) I thought “that sounds like something I don’t want to ever look at, ever.”

Removal by the root is my preferred method of hair removal, but anyone who tells you it’s painless is LYYYIIIINNGGG.

Gas = instant heat, fast tea.

Yeah, she’s weird about the electric stove. I don’t know the origin of that. My current apartment has a glass top and it’s THE WORST.

LOL anytime someone says their product removes hair by the root and it’s pain free, you can smell the smoke from their flaming pants.

I have a friend who has a dishwasher and never uses it not because she’s a environmentalist, but because she doesn’t think it provides any convenience over handwashing. To each their own, but I’d rather chew tinfoil than wash dishes by hand and I could really do without her mocking me for being thrilled to finally…

When my mom came to visit after I moved to New York, she was aghast that I didn’t have the sense to rent a “modern apartment” with elevator, dishwasher, and electric stove. LOL.