Hi. I don’t have ADHD, but I do have other health issues that require me to use medication that has “serious potential side effects” and which, much like ADHD medication, is heavily stigmatized by members of the public who don’t need it and thus have the luxury of assuming that people who do are just…

I HATED THOSE FUCKING SHIELDS.

That depends. Are they comfortable, and is someone giving them to me for free? Because if so, absolutely. I’m a cripple and can’t wear anything but sneakers or orthopedic shoes anyway, so I’ve long since been forced to accept that “Do I actually think these shoes look good?” is a question I don’t get to ask anymore.

I think it’s important to draw a distinction between “what was done to you is not okay” and “what was done to you was done with the intent of harming you and you should feel like a victim now, with all the stigma we associate with that status, whether you think so or not.”

Oh, agreed - and, like I said, I don’t in any way condone adult celebrities (or any other adults) having sex with minors, no matter how enthusiastic the minors are about it. I just think it’s fair to say that what Polanski did is a whole ’nother level of evil.

Eh, I’m not going to say he’s terrible for taking a shower with a five-year-old in the house. Single parents have to shower sometime, and kids that age are generally capable of understanding and obeying things like “stay here in the next room and watch SpongeBob and I’ll be out in just a few minutes.” (Obviously,…

Well, in fairness, the Bowie case was statutory rape (i.e. the minor wanted to have sex with him, although she could not legally consent), while Polanski’s victim explicitly did not consent and told him “no, stop, I don’t want to do this” over and over. Neither of those things are at all acceptable, but I do think…

It’s a miserable tightrope to have to walk. If a woman shows too much emotion, she’s hysterical and dramatic and probably lying. If she doesn’t show enough emotion, she’s cold and calculating and probably lying.

If you think Ashley Graham is not pretty right now, exactly as she is, you’re blind. Even if she’s not your personal type, she is a profoundly gorgeous woman, as is obvious to anyone with functioning eyeballs.

37. Same boat, and some days I really want to jump overboard because navigating our healthcare system as a chronically ill person is so freaking exhausting.

Ditto. I live in them when I’m not at work. They’re unflattering as hell, but at least then most people just think I look like a fat slob instead of a dirty, slutty fat slob. Whee.

Yup. I had a friend in high school who developed earlier than most of us (she was probably a DD cup by age 14, while still being thin), and she was constantly getting in trouble for “dress code violations” that were not at all against the dress code. As an experiment, she and another friend who was very flat-chested…

I always liked this bit from Dave Barry: “I have never met a woman, no matter how attractive, who wasn’t convinced, deep down inside, that she was a real woofer. Men tend to be just the opposite. A man can have a belly you could house commercial aircraft in and a grand total of eight greasy strands of hair, which he…

Yup. It’s also a problem because no one suggests that every male voter who has ever cast a vote for a major party presidential candidate until now was “voting with his penis.” We expect that people will vote for white men because they agree with their platforms or because they give good speeches or because they seem…

If I’m remembering correctly, Gwyneth’s made a point of trying to keep recognizable pictures of her kids out of the media so that they can live relatively normal lives. I think she’s a fairly ridiculous person, but at least when it comes to her kids, she seems to have her head screwed on pretty straight.

Word. My best friend is also a married man. (I’m also friends with his wife, who is lovely and charming, and I’m super happy he found someone awesome like her!) He’s a great person and I love him dearly and I have absolutely zero desire to fuck him, nor he me, but that doesn’t stop people from acting all weird if he…

Because people are asking and offering plus-size fashion advice in this comment thread, I wanted to throw a kind of weird question out there to the masses and see if anyone happens to have a good answer.

I want to hear more about this dumpster large enough to contain 17,000 fetuses who are all at least 26 weeks old, since that’s when they start to develop any trace of skin pigmentation. Forget, for the moment, that 26 weeks is past the point of viability and thus any such abortions would be non-elective. Forget the…

I know I’m supposed to be focusing on the weird Photoshop issues on that magazine cover, but now all I can think about is how terribly uncomfortable those bikini bottoms look. (Plus, you’d end up with really stupid-looking tan lines.)

At least it sounds like Clay Street did, since I think it’d probably be hard for a Swanson chicken pot-pie to run well in the snow. :)