Wow, people are pissed at this comment, but I will concur with Mildred here. I draft and sew for a living-not for the garment industry, so nothing to gain by posting this-but for theatre, where everything we do is custom for the actors. Mildred is right, to do plus-sized properly, you have to draft them differently to…

I was at the Melbourne protest! Turns out three captains turned their boats back and refused to take them. I'm pretty sure the seminar was cancelled eventually.

You're super good at understanding writing AND making cutting-edge jokes. Here, just take my seat. I'm getting up. You do this. I'm out.

Mean. Please be aware that some women have that body type naturally. It isn't an invention of the fashion industry that can only be achieved by starvation. Let's stop pushing that notion. The way to advocate for diversifying body types is not to perpetuate the idea "real" women don't look like those models, and being…

That's extremely rude of you.

Oh, I expect they'd claim "we're talking about the camera and the phone, not her ass!" Stay classy, Manchester.

It's the elephant in the room.

Um, actually it's not about his penis. It's about ethics in journalism.

Her. The correct pronoun is her.

No shit, if you pass the "has a job and makes enough money to support himself" requirement that maybe your personality is the issue?

Gotta say though, it's fucking impressive when blackface is the second most offensive thing about your Halloween costume. Maybe throw is some Ebola jokes for the "Sad, Unoriginal, Douchewad" Trifecta.

Oh, Canada.

They wouldn't care because they think women who die like that deserve it.

You're seriously making the argument that Hollywood shouldn't make movies that would earn a profit by appealing to an underserved market that is excited about the idea of paying money for a product they would enjoy — because — money-grab? Rather than just, you know, rational business decision?

Then Big Media had better start pandering. We have this huge cultural legacy of stories that get sequeled, and prequeled, and remade, and remade, and remade. That's because they are good stories, but they almost always star white, cisgendered men. Which is incredibly invalidating for everyone else. Please, give us…

Yeah, it would seem like pandering. You say that like pandering to 51% of the population as a demographic is a bad thing simply because the other 49% has a long and colorful history of being unable to share.

I'll avoid using trans people as a marker in the future.

Well it's not like Scott Brown, Mitt Romney, and the various talking heads over at Fox who are at least t.v. newscaster attractive are any less judgy and assholish about women and women's looks, so maybe it's just confirmation bias. When someone with all the looks and charm of a Douthat starts complaining about a…

why? we have socialized medicine and little gun violence here.