Whoa... the Uber drivers down under sound insane. You better run; you better take cover.

Me right now

There was nothing more disappointing to me than hearing about how “real” and fat-positive and sex-positive and feminist Girls was and getting really excited to watch it and then... actually... watching it...

So sorry, honey. PCOS sucks big-time.

I rarely say this about people. But she deserves all the bad karma that is heading her way right now. That video was so mean and vicious, it actually made me cry. I have Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome. And like so many women with the disease, I struggle with my weight. It’s like I woke up in a different body. I went from…

Probably not. It does seem to always be guys asking women "why aren't you smiling?". If I had to beat my sister in a sport in front of millions, I don't know if I'd be smiling either.

He wouldn’t ask a man the same question. That’s the problem.

its like watching an infant discover how their arms work

This was an uplifting and amazing article. I desperately needed to have these words put down so that I could read them. It made me feel beautiful/handsome for a moment. Like “Yeah, I’m okay. Or at least not so bad.” I felt a serious warmth spread through me like it was okay to accept myself. Thank you so very much for…

Nothing against your comment in particular, but I miss the days when Jez discouraged talking about specific numbers. Now there will be a million comments about whether x height and x weight is really “fat.” Numbers tend to derail the discussion.

5’1” and 135 lbs is a BMI of 25.5, which means she would technically be barely overweight.

Oh, lot’s of people will consider that fat simply because it’s not skinny. That’s our fucked up society.

I can’t hate (or even greatly dislike) this man. Every time I try, I remember the nerd who did the Kevin Smith movies and all is forgotten.

Hell. Fucking. Yes. I hate the pressure on victims to forgive - and usually immediately! I hate the idea that anyone who doesn’t forgive is doing themselves all kinds of damage and must necessarily be sitting at home grinding their teeth, sleepless with hate. How about “No, I don’t forgive this person and no, I don’t…

Hot take: forgiveness is an overrated virtue. I know it’s not meant to be an absolution of the evil-doer (impossible), being instead a kind of clearing of debt performed by the victim, and meant to ease her moral burden. But still, in practical terms, it’s meaningless. It doesn’t restore anything in the world, this…

I dig this new feature! Agree with all points, all around.

Barber shops tend do be cheaper (although that is changing) and they usually do a good job of cutting short hair.

Why not? I go to Floyd’s which is a barbershop and I don’t even have a pixie cut or anything like that.

You can fit what I know about barbers and stylists into one of those comb disinfecting things, but like, isn’t there a big difference in the training to become a stylist and a barber, so she would’ve fully gotten butchered by a barber? Like Sweeney Todd, but like all on her follicles?

My grandmother died a month ago and one of my biggest regrets was not recording her history. I’d planned to do so during her next visit — I was supposed to pick her up from the airport this morning, actually — but she got very sick out of the blue. Of course, her story was nowhere near as riveting as this woman’s, but…