Congratulations on your parenting skills! That's tough to do at 15.

Ugh, that's even worse than I thought.

Random tip - one of the linked fashion tips is about wearing tights. This is another one of those things that can very much be "easier said than done" after you go over either 250 pounds or 5'10" (I'm both).

I think the type of outlet store makes a difference. Most of the time, when you see "outlet shopping", it's a giant megaplex mall that contains the same 30 brands. They're virtually identical wherever your are in the country, and only "outlet" in the sense that the brands plan ahead to send very slightly out of date…

I actually fit LB bras reasonably well, depending on silhouette, so I usually just by store. But I've heard good things about http://www.hipsandcurves.com/, http://www.figleaves.com/, and http://www.bravissimo.com/.

1. One of the reasons why women tend to plan pregnancies and men are chill about them is that women are always on a countdown. Men have effectively forever to have kids, so while you might not want to be tossing the pigskin with your 8 year old when you're 78, it's an option. Whereas any woman over 35 is considered…

I moved from New Jersey to South Carolina five years ago, and like you I was accustomed to laughing at the Southerners taking cover at the first snowflake. And then we got a snowstorm that winter and I went into work that morning as normal, and I figured out the actual reason everyone had stayed home. It's not that…

Funny, that's exactly what happened to this guy - he had a grapefruit-sized fatty growth removed from his chest! Don't worry, he managed to convince me to ditch the cone of shame that same night, mostly because he wouldn't settle down for two minutes with it on. :)

For the record, by the way, A Hard Day's Night is very explicitly not a documentary.

They're real people who are presenting themselves to the wider world in a certain way. Depending on the celebrity in question, personal inclination, amount (if any) of media training, and the like, that persona may be very close, maybe close to indistinguishable, to the real person you'd get to know if you met them…

That's an astounding misinterpretation of what I said. The members of the Beatles are real people. The "people" we see on a television screen are the personas those real people are pretending to be. Unless you truly believe that all there was of Paul McCartney circa 1964 was being cute and wacky and giving hilarious…

Well, I suppose it's possible Shakespeare was jerking off while writing Richard III, but I personally find it rather unlikely. Fortunately, 98% of RPF writers aren't doing that while typing their Stephen Colbert/Jon Stewart magnum opus, either.

Can we not? The "slash fandom" (if such a thing exists) is very large. I've certainly met any number of misogynists, especially clustered in specific fandoms, but it's not anything like the kind of mass phenomenon you're making it out to be.

The reason I hate these kinds of articles is that, while fetishization happens, it always brings out the people who think of all slash (and fanfic in general) as porn. Not that I never consume the porn or go looking for it, or disapprove of it, but most of the time I'm reading fic because... I like to read. If I…

I've been in RPF fandoms before. The key is to remember that no one's writing about a real person. You're writing about a fictional interpretation of a real person, based on what you see in performances, interviews, other fic, etc. Writers rationalize it in various ways, and most go to extremes to avoid breaking the…

Yes, I'm the same. I read any and all combinations of het, slash, and femslash, depending on who I ship in a given fandom. But my interest in vaginas not my own is extremely limited (read: non-existent to the point of more than one vagina per scene actively counts as a turnoff), so if it's femslash I tend to skim the…

Frankly, the weirdest part of this email is how dated it is. I mean, I know it's from 2013, but it's dated fashion advice even for then. When was the last time you saw a french manicure in real life, and colors other than pink have been acceptable even in conservative environments for decades now. Ombre hair was super…

As another person with GAD and Bipolar II, that one grabbed my attention too!

I don't have kids myself, but I've heard from a lot of friends over the last few years that not every kid gets their own text book anymore. From the ones in the rich school districts, they all have tablets rented from the school with digital copies and a few paper textbooks are stored in the classrooms for reference,…

See, I was just about to enthusiastically agree, because Wild Cherry Pepsi is my default cola at home, and Cherry Cola is just the delicious backup that gets me through when I'm stuck at a non-Pepsi chain. And then I found out about your hives. :(