I think social media and YouTube have given lots of ‘fans’ the idea that becoming a public person = rich/glamorous lifestyle and the price of that deluxe lifestyle means you have to be at their beck and call 24/7.

Agree - at least not for an online publication. I think in parts it was trying to be stylish or moody or something and it just came across as disjointed and incomplete.

I mostly agree with what you’re saying - but what I was objecting to in that moment was my neighbour (who is definitely one of the world’s naturally slim people) characterizing her pregnant stomach as ‘fat’ and presenting it, in that particular context, as a negative thing. I didn’t want my daughter to think “pregnant…

It’s interesting to me that 5 years ago, I would have rolled my eyes at some of this stuff, but now that I’m the mother of a 3-year-old girl, everything is different. I keep noticing that the Richard Scarry books I loved as a child are filled with men who are doctors while women are always nurses; I notice that people…

I think we were all maybe hoping for a remake along the lines of what the new Doctor Who did compared with the original Doctor Who. The original wasn’t awful, of course, but it was definitely cheesy and stagey and had a budget of about $5 for props. The reboot was a totally different thing while somehow keeping the…

I knew she had a Republican fan base and all, but I was shocked by the virulence and volume of the negative comments. No wonder Britney always looks so sad - for all her stardom, it’s got to be hard knowing that posting just one ‘wrong’ picture can make hundreds (thousands?) of people just turn on you in such a nasty…

As always it’s the evangelical Christians, who fear that a sight of the opposite gender’s primary or secondary sexual characteristics will, as they say, “Cause our Christian brothers to stumble.” And by stumble they mean everything from ‘have lust in their hearts’ to ‘accidentally rape some girl because they were so…

But the 70s WERE different: In England, in the 70s, plenty of 17-year-olds were getting married and setting up households (median marriage age was 19.5 according to some Guardian data I just looked up). Ringo Starr was singing a song about “You’re 16, you’re beautiful, and you’re mine” and no one thought it was…

Don’t pillory me for this, but:

Anyone else starting to think that Trump’s whole candidacy is one of those bizarre ‘art projects’, like Shia Laboeuf and his paper bag or Joaquin Phoenix’s weird beirded stage? Maybe that’s too much to hope for.

Exactly! Hubby is bad, but DH (along with DD and DS) is far, far worse.

Not a fan of Perez Hilton at all, but: Yes, I definitely think it’s because he’s male - and mostly because he’s a gay male. I have a toddler (2.5 years old) and I can tell you there’s a lot of nakedness: Between bathing and toilet training, trying to get us both dressed in the morning, and - until recently - the heat…

I agree - every time I read these pieces on Gawker I wonder why on earth anyone joins.

As soon as she said that “I learned it from black people, in the movies” line, I decided she was less Donald Trump and WAY more Ann Coulter.

But...even in the US - where, yes, rape does happen, mandatory sentencing is often ridiculous, and pressure is often put on innocent parties in order to force guilty parties to come to justice - you don’t see municipal councils sentencing people to rape as a form of punishment.

Agree. Didn’t realize, til I had a toddler, just how many truly awful animated movies there are. Was happy to find Hotel Transylvania.

My dog is exactly the same - you could hide small shreds of lettuce into a mushed-up casserole and at the end, there’d still be all the lettuce bits on the floor. Unbelievable.

With turbans, like rich socialite women wore by the pool in Columbo episodes.

I agree that there's a perception problem, but I think it has a lot to do with the 'mom circles' you hang out with. I was lucky, when I had my daughter 18 months ago by emergency c-section, that I didn't really have to contend with anyone who 'judged' my choices (epidural, c-section, hospital birth, etc.) - my circle…

@Zelda is right. I had a baby this past March, so in Jan/Feb/Mar, I got pretty large (I'm 5'1" so 25lbs of pregnancy weight gain shows a lot). But the winter coat I wore during that time made me look more 'fat' than 'pregnant' - and the change in the way people treated me was unbelievable. One day, at 38 weeks…