This is such a murky subject and I know there are a lot of contradictory studies out there. But now that I’m in my 40s, I find that my blood pressure is higher when my weight is up by 10 or 15 pounds. My joints hurt more. When I lose weight, everything clears up. And I see my mother dealing with diabetes and joint…

I don’t disagree when we’re talking about the culture in general, but I do disagree when it comes to Weight Watchers. If you look at their site and their marketing, many body shapes are represented. If you go to meetings, you see that everyone has different goal weights. My goal weight is easily 25 pounds more than…

Hi. I’m that person, too. Cutting out sugar cured the back pain that had hobbled me for 2 years. And I had tried EVERYTHING short of surgery.

DON’T BE ASHAMED TO TELL THE TRUTH. This shit is real in your life and it’s real in all of our lives, and when someone says, “How are you?” And you say, “My mom just died, it’s hard,” then you’re opening a space for them to be real and vulnerable, too. If they don’t take you up on it, that’s on them, but do not feel…

I’m going to respond without hostility to your comment because I don’t think you’re coming form a hostile place. Your confusion about the situation is one that most people share. I had those same thoughts when I first started watching it, too. But then I realized, Oh wait, this woman is minutes away from scoring the…

This comment may have triggered something in you, but it wasn’t a broad-spectrum offense. It’s true that skin thins out as we age and being very thin in your 40s can give a gaunt look. I didn’t read anything else beyond that.

Me too. This is end stage stuff and I wish she had the wherewithal to get sober and have an actual life. 

Wow, that looks like the douchiest gathering of self-conscious fashion douchebags I’ve ever seen. “Wait, if I move my hips like this will I look cool? Can I tilt my shoulders this way to show my tits without making them sag? Close your eyes and look chill. Look CHILL! Shit, my scarf is slipping. I need some coke.”

First, I apologize for putting words in your mouth. Your post referenced a lot of male violence and I made assumptions. That was wrong. Second, I am baffled why you would reference the Avory Faucette post as an example of someone advocating “corrective” rape. I’m quoting: “I’m not ashamed of the fact that at that…

Mmmm...you’re citing blogs and tweets here, not news articles, and their slant is obvious. You’re not the first woman I’ve encountered with this perspective and it’s not that I can’t understand how you’re taking a + b and coming up with c. And it’s not that I haven’t flirted with some of your conclusions in the past. B…

Well this is where I get lost because I think there’s a generation gap here between young feminists who don’t feel trans liberation in its current forms compromises their idea of feminism and some of my generation who seem to be more skeptical. I remember talking to a woman who is about 15 years older than me who made…

So if children are rats....and you’re an “adult”....does that make you a rat king?

Is it possible for two lovers to have a simultaneous manic episode?

Untreated mania is one heckuva drug.

He hasn’t faced legal consequences because he didn’t break any existing laws, but he hasn’t shown his face in public for months and his career seems dead, so I think those qualify as consequences.

Stopping adding air to the dumpster fire that is that little girl’s life. Stop fucking writing about it.

That was not a Frozen Chosen sermon, though. That was more like the Emotin’ chosen.

I think Mindy is expressing some really unrealistic new-mom expectations about her daughter’s future. Who the hell is confident all the time?

I’m not a big celebrity gossip consumer. Whatever I get, I get it here. But Jezebel has posted a handful of KS pictures in recent months, and she looks really unwell in all of them. Who knows why. It’s easy to suspect opiates when that particular addiction is rampant everywhere, including Hollywood. If we were in…

If you feel this sensitive about celebrity gossip, you are seriously reading the wrong site. 1/3 of the content here is “that shit.”