Have to admit, when I started dating (a lot later than most people, at an age when I should’ve known better), I was like this as well. Had to go through a pile of tall-ish asses to figure out I would be happier if I wasn’t heightist in looking for partners. And a couple of asses/ok guys (plus a lady) of varying height …

I feel you - thankfully I’ve never had a bed bug problem, but I don’t usually like most of what’s available to buy in terms of new clothes and furniture. I recommend DIY and thrifting. Both more sustainable and rewarding than buying something new you don’t actually like. With making stuff, one can learn new skills and…

Thank you for this moving piece! It makes me cry and I wish every town the world over had a Carol and a place like the Center for Choice. I’ve never had to access abortion care in my country and I don’t know exactly what it is like, but I imagine my loved one’s experience would’ve been much less traumatic if she…

Having googled this, some people sure seem to think it’s Baron Cohen. Who knows. I could see it, given his clout. I can well remember the times when the Louis CK thing was still just a rumour and male fans of his that I talked to about it would’ve bet their own fingers on it being false, just because the guy was so…

Agreed. And I would add that I read that this dress was apparently matched to Marilyn’s skin tone - looking at pictures, that’s a big part of what seems to have made it look great on her. If Kim had wanted to emulate that vibe, she should just have had something similar made specially to match her skin tone. God knows…

To everyone complaining that the shirt looks too short or unfinished or whatever: it’s fashion, it’s not meant to look like something you can buy in a store (yet). It’s supposed to be striking - it’s like defamiliarization in literature. Art and design shouldn’t just replicate whatever is already commonplace. I loved…

Well, sure, but it felt particularly bad because this show is quite obviously trying to be more woke and feminist in other aspects. Yet, they take an issue affecting women (who get overlooked in medicine far too much) and make it seem quite trivial. I just expect more from HBO and stuff that is supposed to be…

Episode 5 is called “Tragically hip”. I probably should have known better than to watch something with that title. Carrie gets diagnosed with a congenital hip defect, which, as is obvious to anyone who actually has it, is hip dysplasia. She’s in her mid-50s, so it’s really unrealistic and frankly a bit offensive, that…

Here’s hoping there’ll be less triggering me about my life-changing health issues and turning an underresearched issue that affects primarily women into a vapid Hollywood-y plot device and instead more actual fun nostalgic fluffiness. (I won’t hold my breath for an actual feminist treatment of health issues that…

That has been my experience as well, even though I have precious little of it. The first guy I had sex with seemed to think of himself as very attractive, very well-endowed, very sexual and really great at it. From my pov now, a couple of partners later, I’d say that he was pretty average all-around, albeit really quit…

There’s a lot I take issue with here, but I really don’t have time to explain to a grown man that it’s not his place to go about criticizing other men for how they do their hair.

Move along dear, the Mean Girls appreciation society meets in room 4b.

This is one of the few reasons I’m glad I live in a restrained, hypocritical society - rarely does anybody ever say what they really think, let alone scream at people in public. So nobody has ever given me or my boyfriend shit about me being about 4 inches taller than him. And thankfully, I have zero fucks to give…

I wish the main character in Happening didn’t hold a (more or less certain) wish of some day having a child. It should be normalized for women to not want them at all. Even at that age. But I guess it’s set in the 60s and she still is very young. At that age, I wasn’t completely certain myself, either. Still, I’d like…

I love my large-ish nose. It fits my long face and limbs. I’m simply not made for a button nose and I never really got why it was some sort of feminine ideal. Waking up with a small nose that doesn’t fit the rest of my features would be my nightmare. Maybe there were a couple of years in high school when I felt…

Gawd, the amount of toys I had... I don’t actually remember wanting something badly and not getting it, apart from maybe the more expensive miniatures one could buy for those intricate Victorian-inspired doll’s houses. Usually, either my parents gave in or my aunt, who lived in America for a number of years during my…

Shouldn’t this be titled “I rewatched Love Actually so you don’t have to”?

Yey! My sister and me are both around 5'11'’ and we are both with shorter men. All those years I was single and she was with her boyfriend, she kept going on about loving the look of couples like this in the media. Intellectually, I understood, but I had this ideal in my head of being with a guy that’s at least as…

I’m a Taurus and this is exactly how I secretly felt when I first read this news item.

Oh, lovely, this takes me back. I absolutely adored these books (as well as the excellent audio versions) as a teen. Enriched my English vocab, made me laugh so much and cemented my love of all things British. I was a lonely, unpopular, bullied teen in a rural high school in Austria and I didn’t know anybody else who…