NEWS! Miller's university and department chair—whose area of research is body image and eating disorders (!)—have formally responded to his tweet.

Me, too! I watch it in its entirety every few years (or, at least, listen/half-watch while doing other stuff around the house). I just finished another round, and I'm tempted to have another go at it already! So few series are as utterly and impeccably funny, smart, and delightful.

Since I was just up in the GIF thread . . . I think this also deserving of a GIF reply!

Marvelous! Thank you so much for sharing. According to Tweeter and cognitive neuroscience researcher Dan Lurie's (@dantegeek) reply to Chamber's response, Miller's department chair, as Lurie put it, "fittingly, studies obesity and culture," and, according to her UNM profile, has published an article titled "Body size…

I am so sorry that happened to you! Disgusting. Unfortunately, having been covered (just barely) by Medi-Cal during childhood, I can relate.

Seriously! One of the first things a black/white biracial friend in a very liberal but very white PNW town said to me—out of the blue and entirely unprovoked by me— was that she was mixed black and white, just to get that out the way. How shitty is that to be so constantly bombarded by questions about your race that…

Fat Booth pic? Really?! How louche, Ryan Lochte.

I'm so glad you shared this, Laura and Jezebel. This issue is especially close to my heart (though it should be to everyone's—we are all at risk), because my mother-in-law died—in her 50s—of an infection contracted in the ICU.

This soup is REALLY good. I often quadruple the recipe and freeze a portion. Happy cooking, whatever you make!

Poor thing! That must have been painful. This reminds me of "Free the Toes," an amusing spoken word piece/poem performed by the Australian poet Ratsack (yup) on Def Poetry Jam several years ago.

Apologies for double posting! It was too late to edit my original comment.

So no doubt many, or most, of the purchasers of these "play tents" (the name by which the "expensive children's boutiques out here" refer to them, as CrimsonWife noted in her comment) regard them as tipis and associate them with Native American culture(s) (though tipis are really common only amongst Plains Indians).…

I agree. I don't think there's any minstrel-y mimicking of traditionally "black" features here. Also, for what it's worth as far as the "ethnicity/race" of her features are concerned, Nicki Minaj is also of East Indian ancestry (“My real last name is Maraj. My father is half-Indian and makes the best chicken curry in…

Exactly—and at least such complaints are truly legitimate. Such a scenario did actually happen at my university when the Native American Students Union hosted an information booth in the quad on Columbus Day, several of its more inimical members carried signs to this effect and screamed at white students throughout…

P.S. I just came from Torrid online, where I saw this promising look little black dress with the ominous name "Black Crossback Dress." Because plus size women don't want clean necklines or tend to need bras or anything, right?

Amen! Oh my god am I sick of those cut-outs and keyholes! Arm cut-outs, too. There are so many plus size tops and dresses I would love to buy and wear, but I either loath the necklines or the stupid upper-back/neck or shoulder cut-outs or lace insert would show my bra. Annoying!

Right?! Would it be that hard (no!) to make the same straight size items—but in plus sizes?!? Plus size basics as well as classics and trendier designs in modern colors without the said weird prints and gratuitous bedazzling seem to sell out so quickly. It's truly a wonder that retailers and designers are so clueless…

Seriously! Well said. While recognizing that "coolness" is subjective, there is nothing about Abercrombie & Fitch that says "cool," or even "interesting." It's totally fine to be so, of course, but the clothes are merely ordinary. It's laughable that Jeffries conflates high school mega-popularity with coolness, when,…

That's a helpful way to look at it! Although, I suppose the name "Freedom" would then seem a little on the nose? ;)