I wouldn't care if she said anything to me- I'm confident enough about my own appearance. However, she said it about my 15 (at the time) year old niece, who (like every teenage girl) is EXTREMELY self-conscious.

It was difficult, believe me. Knowing it's the whole company policy just makes it worse- there's no one to complain to about her behaviour.

I hate lululemon for one experience that always clouds my opinion. My favourite niece is super athletic, healthy, and fit, and is probably around a woman's size 10 or so (she's 16). About a year ago, for her birthday I told her I'd get her something from that store, since all her friends think it's the coolest, and…

Almost entirely unrelated- my husband loves Louis C. K., but still almost always refers to him as C. K. Lewis (I'm sure in his head it's spelled the same way, but it reminds me of the Narnia writer so this is how I visualize it). It makes me giggle every time.

No Fassbender? No thanks.

Wait- what's adoption? I've never heard of this!

Why? Seriously why? Are there any guys reading this (or women, for that matter) who used to or still find this funny? I can't understand why people find violence against women hysterical. If there is anyone, MRA, former MRA, anyone at all who would be inclined to laugh at these jokes, please tell me what's funny…

If you removed "obligatory love interest who adds nothing to the plot whatsoever" roles from the list, I bet speaking roles would be down to 20%.

Maybe that's why I love the act of cooking and eating so much. Is there any more elaborate ritual before eating a meal other than to prepare it from scratch? I stayed up till midnight last night making the best chicken stock possible, and will be having chicken soup for lunch. Chicken soup seems like an easy, no…

Why bother? The pictures are going to be photoshopped beyond belief anyway.

I got married in June, and considering my background, I was shocked how many people gave cash instead of a present. It was very welcome, considering we'd lived together for 3 years already and owned a fully furnished house, but unexpected. It was at my wedding shower (that I didn't even ask for or need) that I got a…

Maybe. We also tried to use 'magic' (for which we made up all the rules entirely) to get another friend to break up with her cheating boyfriend. That didn't work either (15 years later, she's got four kids with him and has left and come back to him at least half a dozen times after he cheated). That was definitely…

Anyone ever remember and/or try the whole "light as a feather, straight as a board" thing? Each of my 2 best friends SWORE that they knew someone personally who'd done it, so we tried and tried, but were never able to make it work.

Meh. The kids like them, and do you think we can say no to that?

lol- that was my first exact thought.

Good bras are too #$@&$*^@ expensive to burn!

I won't be sarcastic (although it's hard). Baby steps are better than no steps or backslides.

Jimmy Kimmel did a bit recently where they told Bieber fans about horrible (made up) things that he'd done, and then asked if the news changed the fans opinion of him. It rarely did. I wonder how many of the fans of these people would be as rabid about the belief that they can do no wrong.

If I ever developed an allergy to cats I don't know what I'd do. I'm not embarrassed about the fact that my two cats are my babies. One even sleeps under or beside my legs every night. Thankfully my husband (who came into my life after the cats) also loves them. My mother even put up pictures of my cats on the…

I don't know what they did to her in that movie, but she looks 10 years older in it than she does in real life, which means she kind of looks too old to be a stripper. Don't get me wrong, I'd kill to have a body like that even now. Her face just somehow looks a lot older.