On the opposite side of the spectrum, I expect amazing celebrations for my birthday. But I orchestrate them myself because I’m a grown-ass adult. “No cards or gifts please: just come to my home and imbibe all this lovely alcohol I’ve purchased for all of us as we dance and karaoke and game.”

Nope. Best practices for suicide reporting recommend not using “committed,” which sounds like a crime or, to religious communities, like a sin, and “kill yourself” is just insensitive, crude, and poorly phrased. “Died by suicide” is the phrasing recommended by mental health professionals and the American Foundation…

We’re all suffering under the status quo in different but equally horrible ways.

I just watched the teaser trailer linked at the bottom of the article and am now incandescent with rage. Fuck this whole thing, and fuck this piss-poor excuse for ‘journalism’.

Aaagh. While I like the premise of this article, I'm not comfortable with a lot of it. Like another commenter mentioned, demanding antibiotics is NOT the best way to go with a doctor. Demanding anything from a doctor is generally not a good idea. It pisses them off and adds unnecessary time/tests/costs/drugs that…

a steaming towel draped over my face to open pores and remove ickies

Step 1: do whatever you want. Step 2: repeat every goddamn day.

I finally took my doctor to task at my checkup earlier this week. She asked about my weight for the billionth time and I said "you have my medical record. Right in front of you. You can see that I see the nutritionist every two weeks, and have for two years. You can see I've been to an endocrinologist in the last…

It also plays into something drilled into too many plain, overweight folk that you must compensate your looks by wowing them with personality ie wit and charm. Reading that line on the obit made me think of this and wonder if that was drilled into her. This drilling comes.from environment, home, movies, books and tv.…

I'm not anti-gun. I grew up in a place with guns. I understand their utility. But the reason I've never bought one — besides the difficulty of getting a CHL license in New York — is that it's another thing someone can wrestle away from me and use against me. I just don't think it's a solution to the larger issue.

I swear to God. it's apparently going to take someone being murdered for being a woman in the media for things to change.

"a mix of Sharon Stone in Casino and Diana Ross in Mahogany" oh my god it's so perfect

Women are in this weird place where socially & economically we don't really neeeeed to get married, but it's still implied that we're defective if we don't get married. It's a tough place to be. Logically, I know I'd rather be my myself than be married to someone I wasn't bonkers about just for the sake of being…

I suspect the problem is not that women won't "act their age," but that there are so few roles written for women in their 40s, 50s and beyond in which they can be protagonists. Men who are Crowe's age are seen as pivotal, sexual, and dynamic; too often women at that age are relegated to being the helpful wife, the…