Yeah. Its good etiquette for the host not to ask for a gift, and its good etiquette for the guest to give the host a gift. I always see all these comments like "well we asked for cash" or "we asked for gifts" and really the most polite thing to do is not ask for anything. Since you are not owed gifts!

It is very tacky to ask for ANYTHING. A gift is a voluntary item that a guest graciously gives their host in thanks for throwing a party. A host is never supposed to expect a gift. I think it is so rude to ask for either money or gifts. And Miss Manners agrees!

I've never understood how getting married, having invited people to a wedding or not, should entitle you to ask for money. Period. I'm happy to help you move, paint your apartment in exchange for a little pizza and beer, and will pet-sit , baby-sit, give you money for food or take you to the hospital or let you stay…

I think the line for me is that normal aging is increasingly becoming pathologized until it is widely seen as a "disease" that must be "treated." I thought the point of feminism was to liberate us from our slavery to the beauty culture.

Ha! I'm a troll because I don't feel we should celebrate people's caving into society's horrible beauty standards? I didn't mean to insinuate they were vain without cause, that society was polite in it's beauty standards. And I wasn't bragging, mainly stating my situation since I feel that may factor into my point of…

Cosmetic surgery is not "common surgery." It's elective, unnecessary surgery.

Thank you, seriously. Sometimes this is the most depressing "feminist" site ever.

I think it's because if we admit that plastic surgery makes someone look better, we're admitting that we, too, are likely flawed enough to benefit from intervention.

Yah, people elsewhere in this article's discussions are saying they were literally laid up for months and had their entire breasts cut open and will have to do so every ten years to maintain the implants, and I've read people on this blog saying they can't sleep on their stomachs or exercise because of them - and this…

Normalizing plastic surgery abnormalizes human bodies.

THIS! We rarely see real breasts in the media anymore, and practically every dame I know is convinced that hers are "saggy" because they don't look like the ones in the movies. We have actually forgotten what they are supposed to look like. I know women who will say stuff like "your boobs are really nice for real…

But that's just it. WHY do we want it to be normalized? We can recognize that trending closer towards conventional beauty standards feels good for us personally and may pay huge dividends in how we're treated, but at the end of the day, it is ABSOLUTELY because those standards exist and not "just because [insert…

This is not going to apply to most people, but I thought I might contribute it since it wasn't covered in the article. There are deeper reasons to have an aversion to plastic surgery.

I can't even count the number of articles I've seen that are basically along the lines of "let's snark at this freak who keeps getting plastic surgery!" I have often wondered where I'm supposed to draw the line — what exactly is the right amount of plastic surgery to get? At times, I think it's about where people get…

I don't really have a problem with plastic surgery I have a problem with people who have it, it's not even a problem really it just says a lot about a person and I don't like, it's not like I am going to shame them for it, but I am not going to associate myself with them.

Angry socialist is dragging her soapbox over to give you a high five!

I'm not saying that all people who own $500,000 cars are douchebags, but all douchebags have $500,000 cars.

If you know someone who has died in a surgical accident, you would never have surgery you don't absolutely need. The risk may be small, but it is real. As that asshole icu doctor said to me "it's a one in 16,000 thing." Thanks, real comforting when someone you love was the one. Why would I chance causing that kind of…

Right? I think the writer is unaware of the impending class war in this country. ;P

Although there is a certain sect of Puritanical progressive who might angrily judge the owners of $500,000 cars, those people are very much in the minority.