Picture perfect example of how the world still believes that the most important thing in a woman's life is to be married. She has her own interests and accomplishments? Who cares?! She's getting married! Some douchebag is willing to take responsibility for her for the rest of her life! That's all she ever…

"I can't... judge your personal preferences, because everyone has different life experiences."

I have sex because I find sex fun. I can't think of another reason why I would ever have sex. If sex stopped being fun I would stop having it. If having sex with a particular person is not fun I stop having sex with that person.

My grandfather bought me the "boy" Jeep (army themed?) instead of the Barbie one. An anecdote, but relevant.

If I ever have a girl, I'm gonna create some badass princess characters for her to look up to. Like, they don't care about their looks constantly because they're too busy dealing with diplomats and fighting evil wizards and sea monsters (one of them is a mermaid warrior princess) and shit. Because why the hell do…

Right there with both of you.

I'm not sure you realize this and I think you are unable to empathize because you don't feel that way, but a lot of girls are actually girly and gravitate naturally to girly things, and just like you would give a neutral toy because you aren't girly and assume girls wouldn't like a girly toy, they give girly toys…

I don't think that's true, there's plenty of anecdote that goes both ways, but for me, it's only been my female relatives who have commented on my appearance negatively, the male ones didn't care. When I go back home, my mother/aunt/grandma will all comment on whether I've gained or lost weight and after a family…

My sister is pregnant with a boy and when I was shopping for my nephew, I was thinking about what if it it was a girl. I think women feel compelled to buy a new baby pink because babies are seen as an ornamental accessory, since they cannot communicate, amongst other things so the look of a baby is key! It's really…

Amen to this!!! I have a 7 year old step son and when we go into children clothing stores I am so struck by how boys clothing usually has themes of interests, like trucks, planes, animals, etc...and girl's clothing seem to look "pretty" eg, glitter, ruffles, etc...and ALWAYS pink. Boy's clothing also has more variety…

I legitimately thought this was about Pauly Shore, even up until the point I opened the post and went "you guisse have the wrong picture, wtf?"

Well, IWASDARTHVADER said "But this is arguably learned sexism." Which implies that somehow the kind of sexism that men exhibit comes into being from an entirely different place than the kind women exhibit (we're all sexist for pretty much the same reason: we learned it from our elders when we were kids). And it…

Yeah, but I'm not commenting on the shittiness that is Vogue. I'm commenting about your discouraging comment. though, for the record, maybe if Vogue put that very picture of Dunham that you are objecting to, in the admittedly unflattering (but who cares, that's her choice), maybe that would help these standards by…

yeah, this comment bums me out. it's possible that she likes to look frumpy — women have been known to have individual aesthetic tastes that deviate from norms such as the norm that women should try to make themselves mainstream attractive if at all possible. i would think you'd know this because your name sounds…

Because not everyone derives comfort and confidence from the same things you do?

My problem was with the OP's concern of "I just don't get what she thinks the advantage to hiding it is." Let's not forget that her success is partly due to the fact that she DOESN'T care about being the thinnest, hottest woman around, folks. That IS her image. It's frustrating to me that no matter what a woman does,…

It's also that TERRIBLE lego style hair cut that she has.

THISSSSSSS! They could also have one side that says, "Lena Dunham tells you how to be comfortable in your own skin" While the other side says, "Miley shows you how to get her hot bod!"

I am not on Facebook. I'm also not on Twitter.

The stupid thing is we all know *why* Asian men would be the lowest rated... despite the fact that the stereotype about their downstairs is COMPLETE BULLSHIT!!!