I think she didn’t have the luxury to laugh at herself when she was fighting tooth and nail to be taken seriously as an artist when she was younger. And maybe she missed the opportunity to develop that skill. Or maybe her justifiable defensiveness has hardened and set.

In her defense, hydrangeas are awful.

You haven’t met my mother.

He’s not really that tall, though; he lies about his height along with everything else.

Hey hey hey, it’s Faaaaaat Eric! (Bonus creep points for the Cosby association.)

Wasn’t he also affiliated with a RICE PUDDING restaurant at one time? Weirdo.

Oh god, so many of my ex-boyfriends are Drunk Ben Affleck (Draffleck?). I need to make better choices.

You are clearly not using enough turmeric for possibly dubious healing concoctions.

Well, he was the runt of the litter.

😳😣😲

There’s also a huge difference between hair, which grows back and as such is subject to whims of fashion and preference, and more invasive or permanent body modifications like plastic surgery or dieting.  They’re really not comparable.

I would compare this more to whether women have long or short hair, not whether they shave their pits or not. And plenty of spouses and SOs have preferences on their ladyfriends’ hairstyles. Is it an oppressive, controlling mandate? No, it’s an aesthetic opinion. A friend of mine cut her hair short on a whim, and her…

I love chest hair. It’s not the chest hair that’s the problem — it’s the back hair that so often comes with it. Or the WORST: hairy shoulders. <sob>

I’ve loved beards since I was a wee thing. You know how babies and little kids get super excited around certain people, a random attachment that’s almost like a baby crush? All my baby crushes had beards: a neighbor, a colleague of my dad’s, a friend of my grandfather’s (I mean, it was the ‘70s, so there were lots of…

I know this thread is a few years old now and I’m late to the party. So I hope it’s not too late to say.... I love you.

For the record, I had to work very hard in my couch-to-5K program to get down to a 12-minute mile.

This is old hat now, but when it happened in the early aughts, it was novel enough to win me a “weirdest celebrity chef encounter” contest on the then-recently-launched Eater.

I didn’t find Jude Law attractive until the folks at the sperm bank told me that my chosen anonymous donor resembled him. Ever since, even though the inseminations didn’t take, he’s been my favorite. It doesn’t hurt that he’s aging very well, too.

Thank you! I need more carefree goofy content like this during our darkest timeline. #notsorry

Yes, I’ve listened to him, I’ve met him, I’ve followed the arc of his professional and personal development, I went to the same broadcasting school as him. And I still think that he enables and validates some very dangerous and problematic behaviors and mindsets, that his schtick is outdated, and that we forgive him…