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Just to clarify: everyone carries the BRCA1 gene, which is involved in DNA repair. It's what is referred to as a tumor-suppressor gene, since its normal function is to prevent cancer from forming. In Ms. Jolie's case, she carries a mutant form of the gene that doesn't function properly, and therefore cannot fix DNA

AND THE FURTHER BACK I GET FROM MY SCREEN, THE SMALLER SHE LOOKS! PLUS SIZED? FROM THE END OF THE HALL IT LOOKS LIKE SHE'S A GODDAMN POLLY POCKET!

From skimming the comments, I feel like a lot of people skipped over this line:

That's because ladies who like ladies are basically just dudes and dudes be playin' sports, whereas dudes who like dudes are basically just ladies.

punish_dissent.py is by far the least buggy source file in the kinja repository.

Oh, one more thing. Hugo Schwyzer no longer writes for Jezebel. It was on his twitter feed a couple of days ago.

I feel like I don't get the subtext in a number of the covers. Unless a girl having short hair is the subtext. Which seems like stereotyping to me.

Love how she gives the tip on Vitamin E. Like she's saying to Cat Marnell - Anyone can do this beauty shit and I did the whole drug thing first!

Quite sure she lost the ability to give good advice when she said "looking good is a matter of feminism." And she contradicts herself like a million times, like "vicious" but "loyal", doesn't worry but will die screaming and yelling? Whaaatever, Wurtzel. Whatever.

Um. She stays young because she's rich.