Totally agree with you that the beauty standard shifts from region to region and from SES to SES. But in my travels on this earth I've never experienced a Black man desiring a Black woman with skinny legs. I've only lived in big East Coast cities (now NYC) and work as an attorney in a large law firm. "Thickness" in…

You don't quite understand what the word "objective" means, do you?

No one is arguing "rights." You also have the right to call a Black person the N word, or deny that the Holocaust happened, or to call women who get abortions whores.

People think and behave differently than you do: News at 11. What makes you such a special snowflake that you know better than anyone else over what they do with their bodies and how they raise their children? Make the choices over your body that you see fit and raise your family the way you and any partner you may…

You need to get out in the world more. You also need to get better guy friends.

The have a choice, of course. It's just a hard choice. I have plenty of friends who have lost family members and friends because they have come out as gay, turned their back on previous religious beliefs, or have done something as seemingly innocuous as moved in with their boyfriend or girlfriend before marriage (a…

Wait a minute... Bey is rich and associates with White people?!! She must then want to be White! And her 32 years living in her Black skin and body just disappears into thin air. Makes perfect sense!

I'm not understanding the point of your comment :/.

Nope, the European beauty standard is not the only beauty standard perceived as objective in the world. You need to get out more.

We'll have to agree to disagree.

This assumption that Black women have the same body issues as White women is so silly. Oh Jezebel. For many Black women I know having a "thigh gap" would be an embarrassing "flaw" to be hidden at all costs. Spindly legs/thighs/bottoms are not coveted in the African American community.

No religion that I know offers "outside lifestyles to compare too." That just sounds so silly. These people are being raised in a conservative Christisn sect with beliefs and norms outside of the mainstream. Parents are under no obligation to show different "lifestyles" to their kids, give me a break. That sounds…

Yes, people disagree over parenting styles (just ask my mom and sister-in-law). Your way is better than their way, ok. They believe just the opposite. Thank goodness for bodily autonomy so we can make the choices we want to make over our bodies and lives within the confines of the law.

It's your right to voice your opinion. I refrain from commenting and passing judgments on how people choose to reproduce or not and how people chose to create their families. I don't judge my friend who keeps backup Plan B pills in her apartment and I don't judge my cousin and her husband who use the rhythm method…

And, I presume, you'd like them to stop having a million kids. Each side thinks their side is the "right" side. Welcome to Planet Earth where humans think their way is the right way and as a result would like other humans to think and act like they do.

Sigh.

They live their lives differently than you do and in a way you don't condone. Got it.

Snarking about one's reproductive choices is simply not ok in my book. Don't want to have kids? Great. Want to have 100 kids? Do you. Want to get an abortion? I'll come with you for support. Looking to adopt/do IVF/use a surrogate? Good luck in all of it.

Sigh. The sheer hypocrisy of this site deriding women for their reproductive choices is just so maddening. Let me see if I follow your logic: Because these women's political and religious beliefs don't square with mine the choices they make over their bodies is snark-worthy. Got it.

Judging people is A-OK in my book. It's the judging of only one "kind" of people that irks me, i.e., judging Christian and or conservative people for their choices. And I say that at a pro-choice, Liberal, Democrat WOC. It's hypocritical to only judge people on the opposite end of the political/religious spectrum. …