I replied somewhere upthread (downthread? good luck trying to find it in the messed-up swamp of this site's commenting system) that it's true, skinny people don't have to deal with the systemic bullshit fat people regularly have to deal with. That being said, skinny has a number of negative connotations:

Skinny shaming can't actually be the new fat shaming, as skinny people are not yet systematically denied health care, employment and basic respect - I mean, skinny is still conventionally attractive.

Haha I get what you're saying about those people, and it's because of those people I think the semantics are important. I apologize I wasn't clearer and to cassiebear I apologize I wasn't trying to be officious or anything, I was confused and didn't get that you did imply the distinction between person and living cell.

I wish. I'm a size 14, 5'10" actress, and my body is huge huge huge, apparently. I can't do any print work at all (not that I really wanted to) and am mostly only good for voiceover and the occasional comic character work. Basically, I don't really work. Even in community theater, the skinny girls play the leads.

EGR I'm so glad you're back!

Non-viable embryos that will die due to lethal mutations and/or developmental defects still started out as fertilized eggs. The point is that if abortion is awful because "life begins at conception," as the pro-life movement claims, then they need to provide an explanation for why god allows so many fertilized eggs to…

I long ago realized that a worldview that includes both the notion of the "soul" and life beginning at conception actually creates a really disturbing universe. (I like to think out the ramifications of certain worldviews, for fun.)

It is not against Catholicism for there to BE access to birth control for you or even others. It is against the Catholic faith for YOU, SPECIFIC CATHOLIC, to use said birth control.

If your religious liberty is threatened by the basic autonomy of other human beings, maybe you just have a shitty religion.

Uggghh. Giving all these people the option to NOT be my sub-branch of Christianity is really oppressing me and my religious liberties you guys.

Kidding. I still think not being able to sacrifice people when the stars align to honor great dead-Cthulhu-who-lies-dreaming is an oppression of my religious liberties,…

My liberty is not the ability to infringe someone else's liberty.

This isn't even Wieland's first lawsuit.

Last year he asked a court to keep his wife and daughters from going into Walmart because they started selling deviled eggs.

Okay. Repeat after me.

"Not that you're going to eat those delightful little lard-filled butter bombs, mind you! That's for fat people! No, you're going to ask your driver to take them down to the nearest soup kitchen, where he's to light them on fire in front of dozens of hungry children. You'd do it yourself, but you need time to grab a…

I can think of a couple of women who are not impressed.

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I did read them, and this is what I mean, those are common sense things that everyone should already know, just to be a responsibile consumer. And I understand home economics have gone the way of the Dodo. What I mean is there is a whole other level of understanding that people should be given to really maximize their…

Better hope you don't run into the NYPD while carrying 20 condoms in your pocket :/

This naked picture of Bieber has totally cancelled out the joy I felt this morning when I realized I still had a container of sour gummy worms from Whole Foods that I was clever enough to have bought on Friday.