I'm glad you had a good experience with it (though someone else in this thread found them much less helpful). I didn't mean to suggest it wasn't important, just that some of their methods seemed a little clearly unhelpful, like making me fill out a form about if I was suicidal when I went in to get travel vaccines.…

Eesh, that is so depressing especially for a women's college. A friend of mine went to New School, which is a pretty queer place, and when he went in with the flu and told the doctor he was having unprotected sex (he was a virgin and his boyfriend had been recently tested), she flipped out and made him get all the STD…

This is not actually correct, there are problems with the accuracy of the BMI formula in itself. It is both outdated and inaccurate. And even if it WERE accurate, the creator explicitly said that it was not to be used as a measure of individual health, ever, not that it would work for the average person but not for…

This is not actually correct, there are problems with the accuracy of the BMI formula in itself. It is both outdated and inaccurate. And even if it WERE accurate, the creator explicitly said that it was not to be used as a measure of individual health, ever, not that it would work for the average person but not for…

Oof, that is a good point. I never called the Wellness center or tried to get any mental health services, so I didn't realize how destructive that approach could be.

That is so bizarre. NYU had a few really terrible student suicides, so I sympathized with their aims, but it was just kinda like "I came here to get vaccines for my trip to Bolivia, do you really think that making me fill out this random form is going to give you insights into my mental health?"

Good god. I was always a little annoyed with how intense NYU could be about making you fill out a lengthy form about if you were depressed or suicidal every time you visited the health center for literally any reason, but at least they were trying to fix my mental health rather than actively destroy it.

Do you honestly think this is a relevant thing to talk about on this thread? The most important you have to make about this amazing woman who recently passed away is that, even though she was horribly disrespected in her obituary, she probably could have helped being fat?

Your comment would be a lot more valid if you didn't feel the need to point out that people can "help being fat" (which is also, 'on the whole', not true, and completely irrelevant either way). If it were true it wouldn't make this anywhere near OK, and everyone is as outraged by the 'plain of feature' bit as the…

Yup— the career shit is classist, the chivalry stuff is sexist, and the 'balding' stuff is just stupid because, yknow, people age and their bodies change? There is nothing wrong with having high standards, but she reveals herself as someone who fails all of my standards for being a decent person.

Totally. Although, I also wonder whether it's always smart to assume that the body's reaction is going to be smarter than the brain's. My body's reaction to seeing my terrible ex is "He is the perfect man who will love you forever!" and it takes a lot of brainpower to remind myself "No he is a juicebox who will do…

It actually kind of bothered me more when they addressed the buttsex thing but not the male rape, or the roofies joke (I know they all watch the show and I sent in a tip about the roofies). It's like they're willing to address her being problematic if it's debatable but not when she does something straight up fucked…

I also feel like the assumption that our body's reactions tell us who is best for us to be around is pretty flawed. This is basically just volunteering to text my toxic ex for me.

This is taken well past it's logical endpoint, but I think it's an interesting idea— at least, I'd be interested in seeing the heartrate readings. Sometimes your brain and your feelings don't match up when it comes to people— the older I get the more I realize there are some people that I theoretically like but just…

That whole website is an onslaught of misery. WHY, STEPHEN COLBERT, WHY??

Nobody knows about it! She also portrayed James Franco being raped as a big joke on the Mindy Project and only one feminist blog covered it: http://bitchmagazine.org/post/what-happ…. And when I bring it up people say "Why are we holding her to higher standards then everyone else because she's a woman of color?" It…

AHHHH. MY BRAAAAAIN

ARGH. That is terrible. Makes me feel a little better about how disappointing the Hobbit has been, I guess.

Gah I almost don't want to know because I think he's so adorable, but what did Martin Freeman do wrong?

Yeah, and it sounds like that guy's dollar-bill stack was something he proudly did every time he was in a restaurant. How did she make it through more than one date with him, knowing that?