I really didn’t need the peek into Jake from State Farm’s love life.

Well I’m the only child of an older single mom by choice, and honestly there is a lot that sucks about it. I’m in my 20s and my mother is now retired with health issues that require me to financially support her. I’m coping with the fact that she will likely not live to meet my children, and that once she is gone I…

Alan, shut up. You embarrassed you un-embarrassable son, so that’s saying something.

"the internet’s dominant heuristic—which is to read something that does not address you directly and immediately think, “But what does this mean about me?”

Tawny is doing the public a great service by sharing her experience. I had a bad sunburn on my back as a teen, and by my early 20s I was diagnosed with squamous cell carcinoma. I am missing hunks of skin on my back where the cancerous spots were removed. I have a derm visit every year and they are still finding spots…

No, it’s definitely not and I never said it was.

She should be out of jail, period. Her ex-boyfriend, who actually stole the car that landed them both in prison, was released in 2013. She didn’t even know that until the NY Times reporter told her.

I’m too lazy to read all the responses (it’s ok, because I’m not overweight!), but did anyone point out that you did not, in fact, ask a question? I mean, when you start a big long paragraph with “I have a serious question here” I think it’s perfectly reasonable for the reader to expect, nay, demand, that the ensuing…

I could not agree with you more! It’s like “omg! Eat less and excercise? I’ve never thought of that! And like a million other people haven’t told me that!” God these guys are the worst!

The best thing about these guys is they always seem to think they are the first person who has ever posed this question to fat activists.

It is offensive because this is not a place for you to be talking about promoting a healthy lifestyle. This is about liking yourself. You are derailing a conversation and making assumptions about people.

Seriously, why would comment here? You are absolutely the kind of person this article was talking about.

OMFG go away.

I wore a bikini for the first time in my life two years ago. I had never worn one, because of all of the shame I’d felt for having a yo-yo body (from average-to-fat and back again) all my life. Then I saw this rainbow bikini, and I couldn’t take it anymore. I had to wear it. And I decided that haters may hate, but in…

SCREAMING INCOHERENTLY AT YOUR QUEENLINESS

I had a coworker at my last job who was routinely furious that, even though I was fat and she wasn’t, I still allowed myself to enjoy food while she subsisted in Lean Cuisine and fat-free yogurt. It made her SO angry, and she just couldn’t shut up about it—she’d hover around my cubicle at lunch time and make comments…

Let me tell you about what life is like as a fat sexworker. My job involves sharing photos of myself as a strong, sexy, sexual woman, in varying degrees of undress. It involves me setting a figure - a not inexpensive one, either - on what I feel access to my body is worth.

This, for a myriad of reasons, makes some men…

As someone whose weight has gone up and down, and now up and up, I have a long standing tradition of not commenting on someone’s body, good or bad. If someone gains weight, or loses weight, or is pregnant(or looks pregnant), I don’t comment. I wait for them to mention it. You don’t know why someone has lost or gained…

I will never understand why people hate on other people's happiness. I guess that's why I'm not a troll.