It's a bummer when you have to choose between sleep and time to yourself to just sit and be.

Yeah, I thought that quote was pretty acid-tongued, myself.

Nobody puts Baby in a hatch!

If ever there was a place for a Jerome Robbins-choreographed knife fight, this would be it.

I wonder if the involvement of a father in all these shenanigans might have a different valance in terms of psychosexual development. What does it mean for a daughter to feel she has to please dad and live up to his definitions of a precocious expression of femininity, compared to the girls that are being asked to…

It's amazing how long this has been going on. Waay back in the early 90s when I was in college I saw a slideshow on this topic, exploring the violent imagery used in fashion magazines. It was truly a consciousness-raising moment for me; I wouldn't have called myself a feminist before I saw that array of images and…

I think the best complementary meme would be about all the stupid shit guys do while trying to get a girlfriend. Latest crap email from a dude, for example: "PAYS FOR DINNER ON BLIND DATE...Asks for Money Back on Facebook"

I agree, if I'm not into someone I always offer to split the check, even if they invited me.

It would be good if the girls' book gave hints on how to get along with catastrophizing boys who have totally absurd and unrealistic fears.

"How to Survive a Public Speaking Engagement at the Pan-Coastal Shark Alliance"

The annoying thing for me is I've always struggled with weight. If I'd spent my early 20s exercising and eating the way I do now (instead of sitting around smoking way too much pot, might I add) I would have had a truly banging body with reletively little effort. Now I do all that stuff just so I don't go full-on…

Good point, that too.

If you are comfortable with them all the better!

The part about your sister getting away with it is the worst. I had a lot of the same self-consciousness issues and if I had a sister prancing around in the things I was dying to wear, I think it would have been that much more difficult.

It's the unfortunate truth that some of that visual scanning that men do (and women too, albeit differently) is hardwired. Not ogling, not creepy staring, but that first sweep of the eyes across another's body is observed to follow a pattern, and there is a discernable difference between the genders in how they look…

I think that is a really good suggestion. It helps that I'm pretty curvy myself (though I've since had a breast reduction) so I do understand what she's going through—but I'm not sure I've ever sat her down independent of the "go back and change" argument and said in plain language that it's not about her. One of…

I think there is a deeper issue there in that developmentally teenagers are meant to be coalescing a sense of personal and group identity separate from their immediate family units. For them the clothing issue—and the protest—wind up being very key forms of self-expression. They should be allowed to protest because it…

That is fascinating. I learned from Dava Sobel's The Planets that the moon is 1/400 the size of the sun and also 1/400 the distance from earth. That's why they usually appear roughly the same size. Freaky and elegant!

I wish I didn't think I know what it was that moistened that blanket.

I think jobs where you're in a caretaking mode and constantly "feeding" other people's needs—from that list it would be social worker, teacher, physician, protective services administrative assistant and maybe even judge—create a consequent sense of emotional hunger.