@dorky_dyke: Nooo! Why hate something as awesome as your own body?

Lil Kim coloring Bratz? Bratz wearing Marc Jacobs? Confounding.

@undefined: I can haz one?

My mother, a slender woman, was always wonderful about this. She never once criticized my weight. Now, when I whine about it, she insists that it isn't that important 'in the grand scheme of things'.

hmm...for various reasons, I don't think I quite have "what it takes" to be a top 10 bikini girl.

@BostonYenta: Marriage isn't really "for" anything besides what you decide to make it for, I think. If it's love, great; if not, I guess I'd just hope that both parties are on the same page about that.

It's still strange to me that one can buy any mainstream ladymag and thumb through pic after pic of sick woman.

@CerebralMagpie: My boxing fetish will happily join.

Women not interested in imagining themselves as ass-kicking heroes?

It is strange to have that body of shared understanding between yourself and the rest of your family grow more distant over the years. I grew up on the East Coast and moved to California for college while the rest of my siblings attended East Coast prep schools and universities. When I come home, I have occasional…

Wow, as sad as the situation is, terrific news.

@pandorasmittens: Poison Ivy. YES.

My trapeze artist left last year to marry another. Dammit!

@Sukie in the Graveyard: This is perhaps off-topic, but your ID and duck pic are both fantastic.

I think the most irritating part, for me, are the 'exercises' promoted to help you get those great abs/thighs/butt etc. Some teeny tiny woman in spandex and sport bra and cute ponytail posing and NOT A SPECK OF SWEAT.

This weekend I went to the gym and looked in the mirror there and started to cry. When I got home I called the three guys in my band (I'm in a rock band) and told them I couldn't practice because I had gained 5 lbs and was too distraught.