And aren’t they technically still practicing their religion even while issuing marriage licenses to gay people? If their religion says gay marriage is wrong (or whatever other words they want to put in their god’s mouth), they’re still safe because they aren’t entering into a gay marriage themselves.

I don’t know how you could obtain a marriage license online anyway. When I got mine we each had to have mulitple forms of ID and proof of residence. An actual human reviewed all of it in front of us, picture IDs included. How would a website verify all that stuff?

See, that makes sense to a sane, well educated person who believes in science. Republicans are none of those things. They believe that birth control causes abortions.

Seriously. I will occasionally remind them of the actual meaning but most people just say, “Well it should mean what equality for all humans.” And then I laugh and tell them to time travel back to the Renaissance when the movement was born and tell them they can’t call it humanism because a bunch of d-bags in the 21st…

You’re doing God’s (heh, badum tss!) work all over these threads. Thank you.

It’s like Frasier in spaaaaaaace!

People have coopted the term humanism to mean I want equality but I don’t hate men like those mean ol’ feminists. Which immediately tells me that those people don’t know what humanism or feminism are at all. It’s my cue to stop listening to them.

I guess I just don’t understand why, if their one size fits all products sell soooo well (so well that they can rely on them for the bulk of their profits), that they wouldn’t want to tap the larger size market with the clothing too. Is clothing that much more expensive to produce in general? Is it because fat doesn’t…

I’m 35. I’m also pretty frugal but I buy and wear things that flatter my shape and that keep with my personal style (which is pretty basic). I don’t wear a lot of prints, or sparkly things, or anything flashy really. Lots of solid, dark colors, the occasional printed tee, lots of cardigans. I wear some trends that…

I don’t think any of the embryos were created from her eggs though. I think it was all donor eggs.

Perfect gif is perfect.

This is even better knowing that that pastry bag is full of cow crap.

I think most people put at least a little consideration into what their clothing says to people. If clothing wasn’t intended to and effective at communicating a message our society would have just come up with some standard nondescript uniform by now. I’m not saying everyone carefully constructs an ensemble every day,…

Why not? What’s wrong with fat and obese people if they’re good actors?

Is Elle Kemper even a size 0?? That’s a dick stylist!

Many of them are also very young and aren’t even done growing. There’s a lot of 15 year old runway models.

Well sure, marketing strategies are essentially the same across the board. To take it a bit further, I think it can get dicey with fashion because fashion is much more intimate than other products. It’s the biggest controllable part of our presentation of ourselves to the world at large. It’s the immediate way in…

I agree with everything you said about spending large amounts of money on clothing. I think the most expensive article I have is a dress that was also somewhere in the $200-$250 range. I still haven’t worn mine yet though and I kick myself every time I look at it!

We agree that there is a level of irrationality in consumers, but I think we are disagreeing about the exact level. I think I’m giving them enough credit to still want to buy things if they’re presented on or around more average sized models. I think that people want to see people who look like themselves in…