How is “a woman afraid of what society thinks eventually overcomes that fear and does what she wants” not an improvement over “a man roofies and rapes a woman who just wants to get home to her family”?

Your fucking insurance probably doesn’t fucking cover it, because they’re all, “You’re already a filthy whore by your age, so you’re all virused up by now anyway.”

Yep, that’s why I didn’t get it. When it came out I still hadn’t had PIV sex but because of my age insurance wouldn’t cover it and I was not in a financial place to afford it.

This is a very problematic topic. For example, if you have two people who both agree that they will marry but will be comfortable with some straying within some specific parameters, then hey! Go for it! I do believe that traditional marriage isn’t necessarily a one-size-fits-all thing.

—For a man to openly reject a woman because he found her fat would be social suicide.—

I don’t think most people want to face up to the fact of how much their ideas of beauty and what’s appealing is influenced by society’s ideals and what they’ve been exposed to. They’d rather throw up their hands and claim what they like is inherent, rather than examine their biases and broaden their horizons. While…

I rarely say this about people. But she deserves all the bad karma that is heading her way right now. That video was so mean and vicious, it actually made me cry. I have Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome. And like so many women with the disease, I struggle with my weight. It’s like I woke up in a different body. I went from…

These looks are fucking horrible. I’m just going to keep cycling through my enormous collection of fit-and-flare dresses until they all fall apart. They may not be stylish, but they're damn flattering.

I fully support your motivation for this statement, but I don’t think it’s logical to criticize Hollywood for failing to find (or even attempt to find) a pre-transition teenaged trans man who is also a seasoned and skilled actor. That isn’t to say they do not exist, but that their numbers may be few.

Oh, okay, so we need to find a teen FtM who identifies openly as FtM, who can act, who I guess hasn’t yet been through HRT yet so they can pass for untranssitioned for most of the film, who’s perfectly okay having this untranssitioned state documented and immoratalized for a purely fictional dramatic film, and they…

Agreed, though it may be harder to find one that young? Just speculation. Anyway it’s nice to see a female-to-male transition, in all the media I’ve seen it’s always the male-to-female transition shown. What none of them ever show (except maybe the TV show Transparent? I’ve never seen it) is the change in how people…

Except this is pre-transition.. I understand what you're saying and agree-mostly. Just not in this case, I guess.

That said the vast majority of FtMs would fare pretty poorly representing the ‘before transition’ stage which seems to occupy the most of the movie.

I had a bedbug infestation at my old apartment and let me tell you, it was a fucking traumatizing experience. I do not say that lightly—I legitimately had symptoms of PTSD after dealing with that problem. I couldn’t sleep soundly at night because every seemingly-innocuous itch became a bug crawling on me; I would be…

Cardboard applicators are the devil’s stabby sticks.

I mean, I feel you, but cardboard applicators are awful. Like, I end up having to toss like 1/3 of the tampons with non plastic applicators because they always end up getting. . . mushy. . . and then the tampon won’t deploy right. I’ve tried being fast, it just doesn’t work.

Honestly, this is a really common practice, the use of unpaid volunteer staff throughout the campaign, with only a few paid staff. It’s good that she’s paying the interns, but this is, as usual, something that is really common being turned just on Clinton. Frankly, it’s starting to annoy me a little. I’m tired of…

Seriously. This thread is so chock full of internalized body issues thinly veiled by health concern or semantics.

It seems like every other day I am more shocked at Jezebel not living up to it’s old standards. This thread would have been pounced upon years ago.

Yes, I’m so glad I finally know that at 6’1 my size 8 frame is not considered slim. Will recommence starving myself into oblivion ASAP. I definitely look much better as a size 4 with jutting hipbones and bony arms.