Am I the only one confused by "the girl whose boyfriend proposed with a ring two sizes too small"? It sounds like an embarrassing mistake, unless they mean to imply he did it on purpose? Why? Is it like buying a dress two sizes too small in the hopes that you'll lose weight to fit into it?

I liked Rapunzel's in particular. There's a quiet sadness and dignity to it.

Yeah. Normally I'd be against snarking back, but pointing out his weight is really just pointing out his hipocracy and cluelessness about how race and gender affects the way you are perceived.

There was a Letterman interview Rush was on. He was ranting about Hillary Clinton and saying she was so ugly, etc. And Letterman's response was "And you can say that, because you're such a fine physical specimen yourself."

Classic.

Yeah, my father once gave my mother a resin paper weight with a rose preserved in it. I'm sure there are some professionals who put things in resin.

A good idea. And if eating or tossing the original would be painful, she could bury it in her yard or garden.

I suspect that it has to do with stereotypes about people with some fat on their bodies of being weak willed. To be put in your place by a perceived inferior is more galling than someone who is/is closer to being an equal.

Aspects of a culture can be problematic and oppressive without being bad. I love to cook and even like to clean. It doesn't make me a bad feminist. It's when social pressure requires women to shoulder the burdens of cooking and cleaning that there's a problem. And the social construct is the problem, not my own desire…

I would try a Freaky Friday swap with you if I could. I'm short, with a kind of chubby, childlike face and blond hair that naturally forms into soft curls.

Nice, but that movie is inaccurate. In reality the rich oily sleezebag would have said it tastes so, so, so much better than plain old proletarian water. And he would have believed it too.

I would do an oxygen bar before a flight of water, though. When I was in college, the school had one brought in for a special event that was free to students, so of course I had to try it. It was kind of nice, honestly, especially coming off of midterms stress...sit in a comfortable chair, have a nice aromatherapy…

Eh. Battle Royale had a different tone, a more over-the-top attitude towards the violence, all the kids knew each other before the fight and the dynamics were completely different. Battle Royale was more plot-driven, the Hunger Games was more character-driven (it is and always will be Katniss's story, not the story of…

Because as we all know, the main point of The Hunger Games was how cool and badass fighting to the death is, and how people who would view it as a form of entertainment are just awesome.

I'm going to have to assume it's a photoshop disaster. Or possibly they used the take where after an hour of shooting she made a "just fucking finish it" face. Or both.

Spot on! Your mention of the echo chamber is really key, too. I think sometimes in discussing problems with the GOP there's the underlying assumption that they simply don't care about the harm that their policies do to the groups they keep unsuccessfully trying to court. But the state of political discourse (on both…

That sounds like a good plan. I also kind of want to frolic the shit out of a forest with her.

I like how she's kind of the antithesis of what we think a 50s "ideal" should be. Her clothes are shabby, simple, cheap and comfortable (if she's wearing something other than flowers, that is,) she's kind of sloppy (a bad housekeeper, sweeping dirt under the rug, yet!) she's hedonistic and boisterous with a huge…

And then society acts surprised when they continue this sort of behavior.

This is mad science. We were not meant to tamper in God's domain this way.

I genuinely think most men who see that question on a dating site don't read into the language implications at all, and see it as "do you want to date a woman who shaves her legs?"