No, you’re attributing a special slant to the term, although that can be included. Looksism is merely a prejudice in favor of those who conform to a traditional and narrow definition of beauty. Although maybe it can include those who prefer a specific nonconforming set of qualifications?

What is matte lip gloss? Those are completely antithetical terms. (Much like hiring an abuser to be the face of a supposedly feminist brand)

People can be well aware of the risks, and still in such denial that they plow ahead and ignore them. The risks of having a child with Cystic Fibrosis in both parents with the recessive gene are something like 25%, yet my cousin, who lost both her siblings young to the disease, refused to get tested, and didn’t want…

And yet it didn’t do that to De Niro’s face, and he is also still having lots of sex.

Jennifer Coolidge looks great, but doesn’t look like Jennifer Coolidge. Filters? A remodel? Is she on the Ozempic train? Well, I’m glad she’s winning all the awards. 

This all sounds pretty mild, in my opinion. Women who joined the workforce in the 70s and 80s had to deal with a lot worse than this on a daily basis. This just sounds like how regular guys speak when they think no women are listening.

The fashion industry “celebrates body positivity”? On what planet?

Hey, a friend of me just paid a “closet organizer” ten grand to cull, pack and prepare his condo for an extensive remodeling job. For a week of work. That sure sounds like a real job to me. 

You have your terminology wrong. Trans men are people born female who identify as male. You are thinking of Trans women.

The sex jokes are popular because nobody thinks of that as a particularly bawdy regime.

You should watch Hulu’s The Great, where he plays the young Czar Nicholas as a boneheaded, ridiculously entitled frat boy to Elle Fanning’s Catherine the Great. Wonderful show.  

That’s funny, I kept thinking about Nick Cave. 

Don’t forget the eyelids!

I’ve never had an addiction problem of my own, only second hand, but I went to AlAnon meetings for many years when my longtime partner got clean after a fifteen-year heroin run. And the meetings I really loved were what are known as Double Winners meetings, which are either mostly members who are both…

You weren’t that far off. He’s been close to death a number of times over the past few years, but refuses to go down. Cancer is no match for his enormous ego.

Of course it varies from person to person, but a physically fit 76-year-old experienced skier shouldn’t need to be kept from skiing (I don’t know anything about this guy), although they might be at the upper end of that range. They should probably be looking to slow down and stick to easier runs, though.  My father…

Primarily of the taint area! I think it’s connected to bad hygiene and all the sugar in your urine. But I’m not sure if this is from the Jardience, or from diabetes in general, which comes with a propensity for lots of infections. Fun!

That interview is clearly edited to cut off her complete answers. When she’s talking about Paleo, and says, “… lots of vegetables”, she says something after that, that we don’t get to hear. Same after the word “coffee” when she’s talking about breakfast- it immediately cuts to the host’s reaction as though that was…

Which one? At the beginning, she was having work done by a few top artists. I don’t know if that continued or she found someone to finish all of it.

Oh yeah, I definitely needed to lose the weight, and have had a messed-up metabolism for decades, making it pretty impossible to lose weight even though my dietary habits have always been healthy and portions controlled. And it came off slowly; this is basically since Covid lockdown. And this was without any changes…