As a person who has disavowed my religion of upbringing, but still feels culturally connected to it and struggles profoundly with the role that religion plays in the world, I just want to chime in and say that I think this thread articulates that conflict really beautifully. I wish there were more dialogues like this.

yeah, i got pretty lit up reading this too. and to add to your rant, if a person is on anti-anxiety meds, or SSRIs, or most psychotropic mental health meds, going off them suddenly and without close medical supervision can fuck SO HARD with your brain chemistry. michael lohan is just the worst.

I really do respect your right to show up in dating scenarios however you feel most comfortable, and within whatever dynamic makes you most happy. To me, feminism is all about women being free to make the decisions that will give them the most amount of happiness and agency in their lives.

"Allowing fat people to not hate themselves isn't promoting obesity."

I think the concern trolls are right on the money. If only this country of ours were LESS fat positive, maybe heart disease and diabetes wouldn't be such a big issue. I for one know that I felt an enormous amount of pressure to be fat growing up, what with all the positive images of fatness swirling around me.

Sending support your way, girl. You're fighting the good fight, working on loving yourself. We're all imperfect little creatures, tottering around in life, trying to love ourselves. Weight is easy for people to pick on because it's so visible (unlike all our other secret pathologies), and social abuse can be so…

You know, I was wondering this too when the engagement was announced. I then read (I don't remember where, but I'm sure it was trashy, so take this with a grain of EVERYTHING) that they went to court, and while she was not granted her petition to dispense with the conservatorship, her father's conservatorship was…

oh god, this made me LAUGH.

oh tyra. you poor little meglomaniac. it's true that your show has lost ratings, and it's true that it's because viewers stopped liking it, but it was YOU, pumpkin. ever since you lost your damn mind maybe, oh, five seasons back? and started making up words (stop trying to make "smize" happen. "smize" is never…

why can't i live in an open-floorplan apartment, spending my sunny mornings playfully head-butting little leaping lambs? where in my life decision-making process did i veer away from this path? WHERE DID I GO WRONG?

i agree with you. my first two thoughts when i read this were: 1) during a time when women could only enter into any sort of legal contract under extremely restricted (and often marriage-contingent) circumstances, gotta give at least a wan tip of the hat to a husband who at least seemed to respect his wife's agency…

I don't know about you guys, but I like the idea of marrying Santorum. Because I can't think of a punishment worse for him than having a wife like me. Call it hate-marrying. Call it commitment to the long game, the slow play. But knowing that Santorum is waking up every day with, having dinner every night with,…

Fuck that's awesome. I wish this story was about me.

Yeah - don't let this freak you out. People with boring, uneventful experiences aren't as prone to sharing them in comment feeds (do YOU want to read 250 people write "Nothing exciting happened to me?" Me neither.) But of all the people I know who have had their wisdom teeth out or have been under general…

Yes. I will.

This is like a hug from the baby jesus. I love the fact that there is yet another way that Belvedere may need to pay for this, I love that this woman isn't allowing this shit to fly, and I love that it's staying in the news. Sure, some will say it's continued free advertising for Belvedere, and it is - of a sort. …

he he. box.

I don't know, I think this kind of thing depends so much on a community's and individual's experience of law enforcement and medical authority. I am white and was raised middle-class, and growing up I always held the police in my mind as the ultimate and immediate resource for when a situation became dangerous beyond…

RootyTooty, I just want to say that i think you are really brave, both to look at your role as a parent as honestly as you are, and to admit your frustrations and conflicted feelings the way you do. Having a heavy kid seems to bring the awful collision of weight judgment, food judgment, and parenting judgment all…

Yeah, you're talking about Munchausen by proxy, as SleaterK27 said. But MBP is usually a parent secretly harming a child so that they appear blamelessly sick to the world, therefore garnering sympathy for the parent. The kind of attention that this woman is receiving is less of the "oh, you poor thing, having such a…