No, I base my assessment of my own good looks on classic symmetry and balance, what is pleasing to the eye in every era and in every society. Bone structure: I have it. Sorry if that makes you cranky, sis.

No, but you can learn to keep up. Or choose to ignore. This can’t be the first time conversation has gone over your head.

I’ve just always heard from a certain type of twentysomething woman (even back when I was that age myself) that aging is beautiful and wrinkles are beautiful and they couldn’t wait to get them, blah blah hippie nonsense, and while it’s true that every woman does feel differently about this stuff and a lot of bomb-ass…

Indeed. I don’t even understand why she is praised for her beauty unless exalting extreme surgery is the whole point. What’s left of her nose is one of the most unnatural-looking things I’ve seen in a long time.

Thank you for your kind and measured response, I appreciate it :) I definitely agree that a lot of this “work” has become a class marker—the point for some women is to look like you’ve had work done so that everyone knows you can afford the work—and the dermatologists who persuade women under 40 to get “preventative”…

Henry sounds like a little dear and that is a very good name. My boy was also injured (scarred-up paw), and his sis is missing half her tail, although quite honestly I think she loves having a half-tail to thwap around, it’s more aerodynamic and fun. She is pure happiness, the most joyful creature I’ve ever known,…

Well, thanks, babe. It means a lot to me. :)

Your pitty sounds like she is a very good girl!

oh for heaven’s sake, do you want to bury the hatchet or not?

I’m not super-insulting so much as militant. I’m sorry if you felt personally attacked, but I take a clear stance on these things. It’s not that I lash out because I’m mad that someone disagrees with me. It’s that I very vehemently want to state my position.

Well I don’t think you were addressing the author of the article, you were pretty clearly addressing me. But I really do not want to fight about it forever, and I can hardly keep up an attack on a vegetarian cat lady who rescues chickens, dammit. I also have a needy cat. He is four, a total mama’s boy, and I call him…

I did the same thing at The Force Awakens! I was already kind of half-hearted about Star Wars, so once Driver took off his helmet I just sat there dumbly mumbling “cheekbones ... hair ... mouth ... nose ... cheekbones” like some drooler. He just doesn’t look like anyone else. His face is mesmerizing.

I actually have a fairly button-y nose, lol. But even I thought I “needed” a nose job for the longest time as a kid, because it wasn’t some tiny invisible snub when it was photographed. Now I could never imagine messing with my nose. It is well-shaped if not miniature, and it clearly belongs on my face.

We had a bit of heated back-and-forth elsewhere in this comment section about injectibles. I’m cool with Botox and fillers and anything else a person elects to do to his/her face, although I’m an advocate of going slowly and insisting on a light hand. There are dermatologists telling women in their late 20s to get…

I didn’t say that. Natural aging is fabulous. I mentioned these two ladies elsewhere, but Jane Goodall and Linda Rodin are icons of mine. Both have chosen 100-percent natural aging, and they are very beautiful. I do have an issue with older women (basically my peers, btw) who seem to take it personally when one of…

He is so very dreamy

That’s nice, dear. Have fun shacking up with your man friend, with your “normal” face (??), pretending you are in no way contributing to patriarchal norms like the rest of us silly bitches. Golf clap for you.

Don’t do it! You should find yourself a nose icon, lol. Like some very handsome actor or athlete or anyone you really admire who has a nose like yours and who is clearly confident with his face. Let that person be an inspiration to you. Every face is uniquely beautiful. And it’s one’s animating spirit that compels…

aw, thank you. Just doin’ my job. :)

I know how to dismiss comments. I don’t dismiss anyone. If people want to fight, show their butts, etc., it’s fine, it’s fair, it’s their opinion and they have the right to express it even if it is mind-blowingly stupid, ha ha. I would only dismiss something that was true trolling, or “my cousin makes $67 an hour, ask…