The fact that this loon is a retired schoolteacher scares the shit out of me.

I actually love this song, but I love it BECAUSE of her insanity. She's telling herself she has confidence, not necessarily because she believes it, but because she wants to.

I know, I was like, "they have the same life as me."

That song is a treasure. And it made me insanely jealous that I didn't have an elaborate marionette theater. I'm still jealous, actually...

I actually like "I Have Confidence"! I would sing that song in full beast mode while I was getting ready for teaching interviews, and I think it actually helped.

"She has a vagina, right? Where is the vagina again?"

I saw a documentary once about "fat fetishes" (in quotes because it shouldn't be a fucking fetish to like fat women) and a lot of the men featured, and a lot of the women in talking about men they used to date, pretty much admitted that men feel shamed for liking women outside of the mainstream. Like even if a young…

I was hot in high school. I got hit on all the time. I was exactly what boys thought was attractive. I still didn't feel attractive, and I felt shitty and ungrateful about that.

That's going to be heartwarming. "Hey, baby, don't feel bad about how you look. I want to jizz all over your tits just the way they are."

"So what do you find attractive, teenaged boy?"

I think teenage girls get enough messages about how beauty should be central to their self worth- let's try perhaps giving them something that's NOT centered around how they look.

Ugh. You punched her in the mouth at some point, right?

The problem with asking teenage boys what they find attractive is that they don't even know. They're still at a stage where they only consider girls who they think their friends will deem acceptable. I think that you'll find there's much more diversity in what grown men find attractive than what teen boys do.

Maybe instead we could work on divorcing the notion of a person's worth from their physical attractiveness?

great idea. Let's give dudes yet another platform for their opinions on women's bodies.

"What's more, this approach would just encourage young people of both sexes to think that women's bodies exist for the sake of men, to be approved or rejected."

Yeah, no. A guy saying a chubby girl is hot is not any different than saying a skinny girl is hot.

Oh THERE'S a good idea. Teach girls that all that matters is what boys think about them.

Umm- relying on teenage boys who watch a lot of porn is a GREAT way to boost teenage girls' egos. Come- lets clap for this wonderful idea.

What the what? Why are these so-called "experts" reinforcing the notion that your self-confidence needs to come from and/or be validated by external actors? I thought it's commonly accepted now that confidence and self-worth need to be developed from within (for all ages and genders).