Shoes serve both the practical purpose of protecting our feet from the ground, and also a whole host of other purposes (which involve making women look a certain way) that provide real benefit to the people who wear them. I'd be willing to bet that Sheryl Sandberg has a sizable collection of pumps, but it's not like…

It's so interesting that this man doesn't understand that the reason he couldn't find a girlfriend is that he was personally repulsive and that it had nothing to do with looks or ability to make money. It just baffles my mind.

Just because I'm in a sharing like mood.

And what kind of an idiot doesn't know that people have a less even skin tone, smaller eyes, and paler lips without make-up because that is the point of make-up??? To me, this is like being shocked that people are flesh-colored under their clothes.

This is a hallmark of the violently-misoginistic male. All women are lying to them all the time. Remember the men's rights follower/pickup artist who murdered all those women in the yoga gym or the pilates gym or whatever it was? Later on when on his ramblings were discovered one of the things he was going on and on…

What is there to "find out" about a woman wearing as much make up as the picture on the right? If you believe there are women whose clean, natural faces look like that, that's your problem.

Yes, but it's also less important for men.

Easier to understand? I understand fine. I just find it pathetic. I really don't give a shit what people do to make themselves fit an ideal a little better. If I'm attracted to someone, I'm attracted to them with or without stuffings. I find it profoundly sad that to some people, attraction hinges on exactly how huge…

Leo, any sighted woman (person) would be able to tell that you're wearing a corset. Shut up.

Tell me about it. I wear very little makeup in my daily life but my stage make-up for dance is something else (let's just say I learned how to do it from drag queens). What looks fantastic onstage and in photos and videos looks completely bonkers in a normal setting.

Hunger Games' prose is utilitarian rather than artful, which is fine. Plenty of adult novels are also about the plot rather than the prose, and the prose just fades into the background. Harry Potter is also about the plot rather than prose; the writing in those novels is not good. While I enjoyed the Potter books…

Wait, you're looking at these photos and seeing something bad?

I don't 'tart' myself up to bang dudes. I do it to be treated better by people at work and on the street etc because when you look presentable people are nicer to you.

It also seriously trivializes the reasons why women feel that their looks, features, etc. are ugly. Oh great, ONE GUY said he liked this one thing that the rest of society penalizes me for or tells me I should change. How comforting. And, yes, it's so comforting that when the rest of society gets me down, I can know…

Well, the humor comes from the culture clash that we have in managing behavior. They think we're disciplining them because they're with a guy who isn't family when we're actually disciplining them because no PDA is allowed. They mean it as a joke because of their cultural perspective and it is funny in the way that it…

It is entirely possible that the girl had been molested herself and was acting out on a younger child.

It's not just the nudity, it's how it contextualized. It's largely framed as the Good Girl Gone Bad, co-oping subcultures and communities considered "dark" and "dirty" and "seedy." I feel like a culture of debasing oneself as a form of transgression has emerged and I am not entirely comfortable with it. For one, to…

Good, good... the public grows weary of all these little, naked pop stars and redirects its attention to the entertainer we OUGHT to be seeing everywhere:

Guys, listen to me very carefully. If I where in front of you, I would gently cradle that delecate head of yours and hold you close so that you can never loose eye contact with me and could read my lips in case any of these sounds I'm making go in one ear and out the other. Are you ready? Paying attention? okay,…

No, you're right, Zombie Douchebags are the worst. Especially when they're in a suit and they're all like "only Mensa brains for me, thanks! And no lady-brains, because Ladies are dumb." And then you try to explain the error of their ways and convince them your lady-brain is worth eating, and five minutes later your…