Be free from your shame!! *Waves hands and casts magic spell while my backup singers hum an uplifting tune*

When Piper asked Taystee (probably the most insightful character on the show, tbh), rhetorically, what redneck wanted, Taystee responded with "new teeth." And since we know the actress is coming back, my money is on her needing major oral surgery. Just a guess, though.

In the Gulf region (of the Middle East) it was pretty similar (save for the denial of their existence, which was grudgingly acknowledged). Men routinely embrace, kiss on the cheek, and walk hand-in-hand or arm-in-arm as friends. Of course, God help you if you miss that cheek by an inch in the wrong direction.

I just felt the need to mention that this is my fiance's go-to face in pictures. It's his "dinosaur face"; when he makes this face he actually yells "Rawr!" He says that it makes him feel less stupid(??) when he takes a photo because he feels like goofing off makes it slightly less vain than it might otherwise be…

And not just that they "hate other women," but that they are consistently intolerant of those less aware of major feminist issues (especially including, but not limited to, intersectionality). I tend to think it's like failing people for not passing the Feminist Test before they've even registered for the class.…

Oh, for sure. I wasn't excusing/endorsing the behavior by any means, your comment just reminded me of the person. His was a case of literally being 7 feet tall at age 16, which obviously influenced his situation, and he didn't work hard at much of anything (that I or anyone else could see) because he figured his path…

It seems to come from constantly being told how awesome they are at [fame-making talent] and nothing else. There was a guy at my high school who refused to march (at military school) and actually challenged our Drill Sergeant to a shootout because he was convinced that he would go to the NBA and didn't actually need…

I wasn't suggesting that one can have either sex or love, but not both together. Obviously the two can and do go hand in hand (and there are countless variations that land somewhere in the middle). I was saying that some people (including myself) don't equate one with the other. To be more clear, my intention was to…

Me too. Now that I'm thinking about it, I used post-breakup sex-with-whomever as more of way to "get my mojo back" more than anything else. It wasn't about "getting back at the ex" so much as a way to snap out of the sads and a reminder that I was still young and fun and fuckable. It's not for everyone, but it seems…

I've figured out what it is that I don't like about this! The fit reminds me of those paper robe/vest/backward-jackets you put on at the doctor's office. She's so gorgeous, even in a sparkly bib.

My thoughts are the same. I almost always LOVE KW's style (like last year's Gloden Globes when she wore the insane Miu Miu) but this dress seems like what you might get if you tried to convert your typical Mother-of-The-Bride dress into maternity.

I could almost get behind the Haculla-grafitti Kelly from earlier in the year, but this is god awful.

I'm a recovering Catholic (that is, an atheist who was raised in the Church but who hasn't given up the guilt-complex), and while I'm not going through any sort of re-awakening because of his surprising direction for the Vatican, I can definitely appreciate his embrace of the mostly universal "Don't be such a superior…

I relate so hard to this entire thread. For my part, I'm a whitest-white American of Spanish-Cuban descent. I have very fair (we're talking Foundation color 001) skin and big blue eyes, but I have thick, curly, dark hair, a very formal manner of speaking, and a vowel-heavy name. Between the hair and the name, I…

Word. When I was in college I traveled with cocaine inside eyeshadow cannisters inside my make-up pouch in my carry-on. And I would have small hash cubes dropped inside my bag with whatever other detritus (crumpled receipts, used Benadryl blisterpacks, Lollipops hoarded from the Bank, etc.) happened to be floating…

I feel you. When we were teenagers, my boyfriend lived over an hour away from the town where our school was. One Saturday he wasn't answering his phone for a few hours and I, prone to anxiety, got in the car and drove to his house where I met my now in-laws for the first time. They informed me he was up on the roof…

She looks precious but did she have to hold down the flounce on her dress all night? Were there shorts? All I'm saying is that pregnancy, wonderful though it is, makes most dresses shorter and it makes short dresses into shirts.

FUN FACT: That is an $800.00 t-shirt Taylor Swift is wearing.

I think what pisses me off the most about Republicans looking for convincing Beckies to sell their party to women is that they don't think any women (further demographic specifications irrelevant) will notice that we are being pandered to. Holy fucking Christ, how stupid do they think females are? Perhaps their actual…

This is a really important point. I met several people in the Middle East who readily acknowledged donating to Hamas because it was likely the only way that Palestinians would ever see that money. I was told that major international aid groups are seen as unreliable, especially when it comes to Gaza. Each of the…