SAME. I love bralettes because I hate underwire. The only downside is that I have super alert nipples and the unlined bralettes can sometimes make that pretty obvious.

Ugh this is why I can’t stand La Boheme. It’s certainly not the only opera to emphasize feminine fragility, but the entire plot is a man falls in love with a woman because she’s sick. And she’s so much more gentle and lovely than Musetta, the woman who dares to enjoy the company of more than one man.

And in Moulin Rouge were Satine does whole musical numbers without hacking up dark phlegm even once.

I don’t think a lot of people understand just how strong chimps are. We humans are the wimpy eggheads of the primate world (and our muscles are better for fine motor control than brute strength).

(insert obligatory mention of Ruby Gillis of Anne of Green Gables here. She was my first literary TB death and I cried buckets. Later I studied Victorian lit in grad school. Go figure.)

Yeah, we did the same thing twenty years ago with “Heroin Chic”.

You’re right. Chimps would know exactly what they’re doing.

I am always entertained by Victorian novel's obsession with TB. It's right up there with their fetish for orphans with hearts of gold (in literature, no one wanted to touch an orphan in real life). Although, funnily enough, they leave out the constant, irritating coughing and the, you know, drowning in your own lungs…

tuberculosis enhances those things that are already established as beautiful in women” at that time—paleness, thinness, and the red lips, cheeks, and sparkling eyes now understood to be caused by a frequent low-grade fever.

I was always meta-amused by La Boheme, where Mimi sings these beautiful arias as she is dying of a debilitating lung disease.

Every time I bring my daughter to the zoo (it’s free so we go a lot), I think of this woman while we’re in the primate house... I think “these fuckers would rip me to shreds with their bare hands.”

That poor woman. To go through something like that and still be willing to go through experiments to help others is pretty damn brave, tbh.

Brave, lovely woman. Much respect to you Charla.

I have no idea what’s going on.

Its braised, sliced Pokémon on rice or noodles.

If I’m eating 3000-5000 calories a day it better be because I went on a self-destructive, give-no-fucks drinking binge combined with a trip down to fast food town for a double cheeseburger, poutine, and milkshake.

Apparently this is proving to be the truth

Cassey Ho, AKA Blogilates, who promotes, among other things, a “bikini meal plan” of about 1700 calories per day.