Her coverage of this is quite good- it’s her most recent post.

Libby Anne at Love Joy Feminism has some good insights as well.

I feel like I say this every time there’s a comparison between the Duggars and Kardashians- for all of the bullshit reality tv show fakery that the Kardashians do, they are significantly more up front about it and I respect that. First, the elder Kardashian sisters, who have been the focus of the show, were adults who…

This is a solid description of me as well, and that bubble butt makes low rise impossible. They don’t cover my ass. Like, they just don’t go up enough. The first time they were in style I was a block of solid muscle and ab-tastic and refused to buy them because I hated having to pull up my pants 20 times a day.

I’m 27, so yeah, probably the latter.

Right? There are signs everywhere. I was at Devil’s Tower a few years ago and there are giant signs that say to stay behind the barrier because of prairie dogs. Now, if a prairie dog is dangerous enough to warrant signs, bison should be a no brainer. (also prairie dogs carry bubonic plague, but still, bison, way…

I bear almost no resemblance to that side of the family, mostly my build, but my face is all my mother. Like, we have a great picture of them with all of their kids and grand kids from their 50th anniversary and I’m over there like “one of these things is not like the other.” It would be even more noticeable if I…

Anger is an emotion that I don’t have as frequently or strongly as some of these others and when I do, I rage, shut down, and am not productive. So, I would much rather not be angry and be able to function enough to do things.

I have similar feelings, only grandparents instead of parents (my parents would be contemporaries to Sally and Bobby). The show really has given me some insights into what my grandparents’ lives would have been like, at least to a degree. Betty really reminds me of my dad’s mom in a lot of ways- educated, but not…

Right? No need to be cutesy, just say cross legged. That’s what they said when I was a kid and were starting to phase out “Indian Style” (although that was still mostly what was used in elementary school).

Yeah, I wonder how close this is to her natural shade.

I love them for my legs and pits. I started using my husband’s because I forgot my normal razor once and am not going back.

My husband switched to safety razors a few years ago and recently, I left my razor at home while we were traveling so used his to shave my legs. Never going back to the other kind of razor. It makes a huge difference. Takes longer, sure, but really effective shave.

I’m really liking her blonder hair color. Like, she’s stunning with her Joan hair, but this is softer and really pretty. If I could pull this hair color off with my skin, I’d totally try it (I can’t).

A friend’s family adopted a girl with a big port wine birthmark like that and she was tormented by the kids and abused by the adults at the orphanage because of it. Now, her life is an extreme example, but people, and kids in particular, can get so nasty about something different looking on a person. I can totally see…

I know someone who literally ran into Prince turning a corner downtown. Of course, he’s a tiny dude and she may have knocked him over...

Ideally our laws would reflect secularism.

First cousin and usually out to third cousin marriage required a papal dispensation for a large portion of time, especially in the middle ages until the Reformation, because of the taboo against consanguinity, so it’s not just 20th century eugenics thing (although I won’t argue that it made a resurgence because of…

I’m from a not rural area, but one that had been rural until it got absorbed by the major nearby city in my lifetime. I was a serious anomaly at school because I had no cousins in town and distinctly remember my friend attending a family reunion that was the “Mother’s Last name-Father’s Last name” reunion, one side of…

Yeah, my husband and I have similar ancestry form many places (both of us have ancestors from like, 10 different countries of origin and we’re white with Daughters/Sons of the American Revolution credentials, so there’s bound to be place of origin overlap). I know we’re not within what I’d call close cousin range,…