This Feministe post ([www.feministe.us]) makes a great point about why Breslin's screed is insane: it's TWO WORDS. If you think it's silly, it takes a time-span shorter than I can articulate to SKIP THEM.

um, I would care if an 11-year-old boy said the c-word.

@Scoldy Lox: I've seen a couple of 3-D movies in my glasses and it was fine. The 3-D glasses they give you are giant.

"Know Thyself": This is how I found a wedding dress in half an hour at one store. I have short legs, so I don't wear full-length skirts, but I don't like my thighs, so I don't wear shirt skirts, either. That leaves right above, at, or below the knee, which narrows your wedding dress options considerably. I also tend…

They don't have editors at the IU Odyssey? The fact that this kid managed to get through seventeen years of public schooling without learning the difference between "to" and "too" is almost as offensive as his actual message.

CHEESECAKE is final pie? a pox on both your houses.

@rixatrix: YES. our families have been, for the most part, really hands-off and supportive, but i did have my favorite potential venue straight-up vetoed by the mother of the groom. i was sad, but i didn't want her miserable on my wedding day.

mrteenwordpower and i asked our respective parents if they'd be able/willing to help with our wedding costs, rather than asking for money outright. they were incredibly generous, and are together paying for the entire thing (just north of $20,000—which, in LA, is still a semi-budget affair). again, they were…

i know i'm straight and (i think) you are too, but sadie stein: will you be my gal?

If you use actual hard-boiled eggs, that is. You definitely will not find all of them, because your bleary-eyed parents were trying to stick them all behind the TV table or whatever before you woke up, and they won't really remember where they hid them, and even if they do, one of them will probably slide behind the…

i never had much use for dolls, beyond cutting off various parts and hoping they'd grow back. i had TONS of stuffed animals, though i didn't "nurture" them so much as build them elaborate suspended apartment complexes by tying baskets to my bunk beds and closets with my father's ties. in retrospect, he was a very…

i was ranting a couple days ago about WHY we need to sell products to men/women by insulting women/men. there is so much more to me than my relationships with men—and more often than not, the product in question has ZERO to do with those relationships (we won't even get into the endemic heterosexism). Like, for…

@clochette: and i love the name "mango".

"I'm, um...busy."

@msAnthrope: in that situation, i know i'd rather id it upfront than let the interviewer guess later, in print.

@illegalseagull: there would be a riot. which is why i miss smith every. single. day of my life.

exactly.

oh yes. OH YES. i work at an after-school center with the k-1st graders, and the ones who're picked on are invariably socially awkward in some way. and not even necessarily obvious ways—some of them just want it (friendship, acceptance, cool) *too* much, and everyone picks up on it immediately. it's a shark tank in…

i know it's barbie, but WHY are joan and betty the same size? joan is a terrifyingly hot ocean liner of t&a. unacceptable.

well, thank goodness ms. sidibe now knows she isn't attractive to howard stern. it's a blow, but she seems resilient, and i'm sure somehow she and her newfound fame and fortune will carry on.