Wow, the timing here is great. I just lobbed off seven inches of hair a couple days ago, after years and years of growing it out. I went through the same thought process of trying, and failing, to figure out just who I was growing my hair out for, since most of the time I thought the ends looked kind of lifeless and…

Clinique lipstick has a distinct smell and taste to me - I don't love it, but I think it has something to do with the fact that they don't add anything in to flavour the product. Unlike Cover Girl, who literally has the distinct smell of their foundations trademarked.

I went through a similar situation last year when I went off BCP, though it was more to do with not being able to afford the pills than about trying to get pregnant. I wound up having to suck it up and scrape together the money to pay for my monthly prescription, because the transition was so awful. The face…

My condolences on your father. My own dad passed away suddenly just over two years ago, and it's an incredibly difficult time to get through. My only advice is to take all those "crazy" impulses and give them their head, because there's no right or wrong way to get through it. Fuck what everyone else says - you tell…

I didn't say it was comedic, for the record; I said it wasn't being acknowledged as rape in the same way it would have been had there been a woman tied to that bed, in light of the director's comments. Sorry if my comparison to Horrible Bosses implied as much, I just couldn't think of a better example off the top of…

Most creepy of all were the other werepanther girls lined up to be next in line for the ride (sorry), pretty dresses and all. I thought I might have even seen a corsage on one of them. I'm actually having a really hard time watching this whole storyline with Jason, because it IS gang rape, and thus extremely…

@aprilphresh: Yeah, I've had the same realization recently. I was borderline anorexic just to get down to 130 lbs, and since recovering I've gained back almost all of the 80 lbs I lost during that time, even though I now work out 5 days a week and have a much healthier diet than before I started starving myself. Most…

I don't understand this attitude that the solution is to get rid of the books and the librarians. People are becoming increasingly more literate when it comes to using library systems and finding their own reading materials, true, but it's the positive, face-to-face interaction that really encourages people to want to…

I think you could ask almost every woman in the culinary industry about whether or not she feels taken seriously in such a male-dominated field, and they would probably have much the same response. My best friend is a professional pastry chef, and she says she's had to work twice as hard since Day 1 just to get…

I feel like I'm control garment-retarded. Of the various attempts I've made over the years, I just feel like they make me look ridiculous by forcing all my flesh up or down and resulting in worse bulges than before, because they're in awkward places (like mid-thigh).

@delicatedisarray: Heh, I remember one of my friends expressing "relief" when I finally started shaving my legs, like they'd worried about my psychological state as a result of having hairy legs past the age of twelve.

@delicatedisarray: Heh, I remember one of my friends expressing "relief" when I finally started shaving my legs, like they'd worried about my psychological state as a result of having hairy legs past the age of twelve.

@delicatedisarray: Heh, I remember one of my friends expressing "relief" when I finally started shaving my legs, like they'd worried about my psychological state as a result of having hairy legs past the age of twelve.

I didn't grow up with anything like this, but felt no less compelled to shave my legs as a kid. The number of shaving commercials on TV and in magazines, combined with watching my mother do it and pressure from my peers, was more than adequate to make me feel like the hair on my legs and arms (neither of which was…

I think the point at which you start to consider getting your partner drunk in order to fuck them up the ass is the point at which one of you probably needs to leave the relationship...

Man, I brought this up with a boyfriend once and it almost ended the relationship; up until that point we'd used fingers but apparently pegging was the line I should have never tried to cross.

Thanks for bringing up Cleaving - I was going to. The book got a lot of flack for its overly graphic descriptions of butchery and sex, but I think there was a point to that parallel. Her cheating was something she was ashamed of, and she didn't pretty it up to make it seem like it was about love and flowers as opposed…

Gotta love the gusto with which Misha Collins threw himself into the meta with the real-time Twitter updates. For about five minutes his Wikipedia entry even listed his date of death as February 25th, 2011. Love it.

@Beatcamel: Um, that wasn't actually Kripke, that was an actor called Micah Hauptman. Or did I seriously misread some sarcasm?

My first reaction to her weight loss was, "Another strong, curvaceous role model bites the dust," but if she's happy with the changes, that's good for her. In the meantime, though, I'm still holding out for one such story that doesn't end in a WeightWatchers campaign.