samesies. I usually don't let winter get me down too bad—I exercise outside year-round, and hit the nearby gym if it's TOO cold (hardly ever—normal winters where I live is mostly teens & twenties). This winter, we've been mostly single digits with seemingly endless snow and ice (we've had cancellations for 7-8…
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me! I am long waisted and short-legged with wide-ish hips. low rise jeans do NOT cover my ass unless i'm standing straight and tall and not moving. found a pair of "regular rise" (below my belly button but definitely above my hips & butt) jeans at banana last year and have treasured them ever since. i can sit down! i…
I heard a talk last year by John Carlos—yes THAT john carlos, he of the black power salute on the medal stand—and someone asked him about whether athletes should boycott the games. He said, unequivocally, no. If the U.S. or its athletes decline to participate, it fails to make a difference. The best thing the athletes…
fair enough. I guess I didn't mean to be reductive in my earlier statement—it's not that it's the *only* thing that comes to mind, but I can't see that symbol *without* thinking of that.
which part makes you say that? honest question—trying to have a conversation. i'm not sure how to articulate why this shoot feels so icky since, as the OP notes, this is Hollywood Forever and therefore not likely an active aggression against Jews ("just" a display of ignorance). What is it about these photos that…
yeah maybe it is—and maybe it wasn't intentional on the part of the blogger to release the photos on the anniversary of the liberation of auschwitz. i guess it's more fair to say that the "dgaf" attitude would be offensive regardless of the faith/ethnicity of the people resting behind her, but the timing, even if not…
You're right, it's not Auschwitz, but there is something a little disturbing about posing in front of Jewish graves—which automatically call to mind the genocide of an entire people, regardless of the fact that *these* graves are not *holocaust* graves—and boasting that she doesn't give a fuck. Maybe try to give a…
that's my favorite line. first i liked the whole song (catchy!), then i started hating it because overplay and rapey rape. now when it comes on the radio i groan but still wait for that line, which i always yell to my husband.
Uh, she was definitely not lip syncing. you can hear her breath jump when she executes the bigger moves.
ugh, I can't even believe I'm about to defend the Kardashian/Jenners right now, but even with the obvious fact that this is a recreation, it seems worth pointing out that K & B have no doubt known their marriage was headed this way for a long, long time. Given that they are both filthy rich people with (mostly) grown…
nevermind. I was just trying to understand the nuance of the original question by referring to grammatical rules. if we're talking about correctness, the "it" cannot represent two different things in the same sentence. as a rule, the vague pronouns (it, this, that, those, etc) refer to the more specific pronoun that…
well, no. grammatically the "it" should be the same when repeated in the same sentence without modification. So, "If you liked it (her) than you shoulda put a ring on it (her)." I know that she gestures to her hand in the video, but the OP italicizes the word "it" in the question regarding feminism, implying—I…
the question is regarding the use of the impersonal pronoun, reducing HER to IT, yes? possibly not the most feminist phrasing in the world, but I give her a pass on it. It's pop music, and the overall message is about embracing your own Sasha Fierce/Beyonce Pad Thai and not needing a man who won't commit.
In important categories, it is as bad as soda. A doc on that HBO doc about juvenile diabetes put it this way: Nature makes fruit sweet so that you will eat it and get your vitamins. The vitamins are in fibrous solids of the fruit. When you strip all that away and only drink juice, you are getting all of the sugar with…
rad, thanks!
just washed my favorite pair for the FIRST TIME since purchasing them last winter (maybe january?). Had to do it—cooked thanksgiving food in them and neglected to wear an apron. Cold wash, air dry, regretting it so hard. Will take me months to get that perfect fit back. IMO, when they stand on their own, they're just…
tell me more about Costco vanity sizing? I'm in need of a fresh pair of cropped tights but am also A Poor. Costco is my JAM.
As an extremely practical person, I will note that this time of year is great for getting engaged because it creates an ideal (imo) timeline for getting married... Given that the most popular months for weddings are June and September, a Nov/Dec engagement is generally too late for a short (6-9 month) engagement…
haha. yeah I felt kind of weird about the gifts at first (i'm 30, hub 32, we have 1.5 adult person jobs between us), but so much of our shit was hand-me-down/thrift store junk... we just didn't have anything "grown-up." So, I resisted the urge to register for all the "traditional" gifts (fine china, silver, etc), but…
presents, duh. Ok, the gifts are nice but, as someone who's been married since the summer, here's my honest take on these parties: they are awesome because you get to spend an afternoon or evening with people celebrating you and the decision you're making. I know this sounds super cheeseball—I'm the type of person who…