Madeleine, your clothing choices make me feel skeptical that you are anything approaching pear-shaped. And I say this as someone who is decidedly pear-shaped. I now suspect you are actually just thin. But I am so excited for the Supergoop setting mist. That is what I have been looking for for years, and what I…

Yep. I may have literally blocked out the child abuse part, but the loving and graphic depictions of rape, set against coy “fade to black”-type descriptions of consensual sex, really upset me.

It is not just a local problem in your part of the country. As a Pagan myself, yes, there is a serious problem with racist antisemitic pieces of shit who are obsessed with Norse and Germanic paganism. Prisons have a big issue with neo-Pagan white-supremacist gangs, and the SPLC has written about them as well. It’s…

I’ve never read her. Is she as depressing as Candace Bushnell? That is my fear. Every time I ever thought to pick up one of Bushnell’s books, I thought, “I enjoy the tv show SATC, this will probably be frothy and fun like that.” And then I would get a chapter or two in, feel all the color drain away from life, put…

It was sooooooo awful. I hated every minute. It alternated between wildly boring, ethically hilarious*, and disturbing.

I think it is in my copy of “1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die,” so I think so.

Those are amazingly useful comments, no? “Thanks for telling me! I was just doing it to fit in with the cool kids!”

To answer your question, there is no way to normalize body positivity while using an article about drug manufacturers obscuring information critical to people over a certain weight to lament that unhealthy weights are being normalized.

I thought Anglea Merkel was now leader of the free world?

By “opera pigs,” I assume you mean Pigoletto.

I didn’t watch The Bling Ring, because she is so terrible in Harry Potter. But she was awful in Beauty and the Beast, which my friends dragged me to. The best performance I’ve seen by her was a cameo in This is the End, where she plays herself.

I absolutely agree that sci-fi/fantasy actors are seriously underrated. I also think Emma Watson is seriously overrated. 

Nope, still a bad actress. In Harry Potter and in Beauty and the Beast, it is always 100% apparent that she has no idea what she is supposed to be looking at. I get that she’s playing against CG characters, but if she would stop reminding me of that with her permanent judgmental bewilderment face, I will start…

I assume a non-vanity butt photo would be like, “I think I have an irregular mole on my butt. Can you take a picture so I can figure out if I need to go to the doctor?”

I actually think she’s a terrible actress with great taste in projects. She’s been in some stinkers, but for most of the early aughts she was reliably the worst thing in great movies. Talented Mr. Ripley was great, and she was awful in it. Shakespeare In Love was a delight, and she was incredibly meh. Duets had…

I just have the safety razor from my local Rite Aid. I can’t remember the name.

If you switch to a shaving cup and brush, basically any razor will give you a close shave.

True. I love waxing, but I’ve also always enjoyed plucking my eyebrows. The expense is the only thing that has kept me away from my waxer lately.

“Of course, the real outcome here will be another round of unnecessarily strong razor takes, about safety razors or straight razors or proper unguents or whatever you people are arguing about these days. Have a ball!”

Good luck to you both, however you decide.