Being concerned doesn’t make you an asshole. Masking disdain and disgust as concern does. I think you’re making excellent points. We all need to be more concerned about our health and quality of life. It’s not wrong to talk about correlations between excess weight and poor health outcomes. It just sometimes requires a…

I don’t see HAES as a myth as much as it is one of those terms like body positivity. I see it as coming from a good place in that it’s telling people that you don’t have to be thin to be active. Unfortunately, as a backlash against the constant onslaught of messages telling women that anything more than 150lbs is…

My husband has a tub full of VHS tapes that he refuses to let go of. He even has the VCR hooked up in the basement right near the turn table. It’s his den of old tech. I have some tapes that I was going to donate to a thrift store but I might have to rethink that.

I think that’s the best thing to come out of all of this. Having a positive attitude and self esteem makes all of the difference. I think that showing that women can be strong and beautiful and joyful without being a size 0-6 does more to improve both mental and physical health than people realize.

That’s one aspect of the body acceptance movement that has troubled me. I’m fat. I know that, while I may have all of the right numbers in terms of blood pressure, cholesterol, etc...the extra weight is not good for me because I can feel it in my bones - literally I can feel my knees and ankles struggling. Feeling…

I think it’s an important distinction that the request is coming from women passengers themselves. This isn’t something that’s being imposed on them by the government or the company but something that women who use the service are requesting. Visible security is a good thing as well as is trying to decrease overall…

Honestly I think it’s being blown out of proportion because it’s Germany and because it’s coming on the heels of complaints about women being sexually assaulted by immigrant men. You get the combination of a progressive European city, anti-immigrant policies, the idea that women need special protections, and the…

I think it’s complicated in a lot of places outside of the U.S. - not necessarily not racist but certainly a little more vague. In the U.S. there is a very clear history of people of color being told for years that whiter is better. It’s why colorism has been so rampant with black people in America and why whole…

He sounds like he’s a regular but not someone that people know by name. And there’s nothing to stop someone from using a fake name or nickname if they talk to people at the bar. People could say ‘hey, that’s Bob’ but have no idea what Bob’s full name is or where he lives.

I was actually thinking of mentioning the expanding criteria which can end up picking up some people who could be diagnosed with other disorders. I’m thinking that, in some cases, it’s sounds better to say that a child is on the autism scale rather than that a child is mildly mentally retarded because of stigma.

I think it’s more a matter of autism being recognized and diagnosed more than it was in the past and, as MickiMonster said, opening up the criteria to include more people. There have always been people described as variations on slow or mentally disabled or just weird who now would likely meet the criteria for being…

It makes even less sense than the anti-flu vaccine people who swear that the vaccine gives you the flu so that you have to spend money on medicine. Or that some secret cabal is sitting on the cure for common illnesses and cancer because there’s more money to be made treating rather than curing. No one is making bank…

I remember there being a whole slew of fans that shipped the Hobbitts obsessively. Like to the point of claiming that two of them were secretly married and there was some sort of conspiracy to hide it from the public. It was very creepy. Then again, I find the whole real people slash thing creepy anyway.

I get the feeling she’s going to be devastated when her son brings home a girlfriend. I just don’t get the idea of pushing your kid to anything other than who or what they are - trying to make your kid a walking example of how progressive you are just seems cruel and confusing.

So what happens when a transman goes into the ladies room and someone reports him? I mean, according to this law, he has to use the bathroom designated for his biological gender. I would think all of these pearl clutchers would be a lot more freaked out by washing their hands next to a very masculine transman than a…

But did you have the added benefit of seeing bloody discarded tampons/maxi pads on the floor? That’s always fun

I know she could totally kick my ass especially with my wonky ankle and knees and lack of upper body strength. On the upside, I now have my goal for next year - I want to do one of those obstacle course races. I have my consult for medical weight loss and they ask what the ultimate goal is. Screw fitting into smaller…

I love working out at home. I can wear my saddest, rattiest work out clothes and not care that my shirt’s riding up or may pants are riding down. I can control my overall environment - my music, my tv, my cats laying down under me while I’m trying to do a plank. When I’m done I can use my shower and then go in my…

I’ve seen lemon and orange flavored ones at Target. Remember when the used to be just for Easter. Now there’s Peeps for everything. They’re horribly gross, useless blobs of sugar but every once in a while I’ll almost convince myself that they taste good. Then I come to my senses.

I think that the general undercurrent of not being good enough and to constantly compare ourselves to others hits some people harder than others. You’re right, time and experience will help them not take things so seriously