Rihanna could have a 5-year old cut her hair with safety scissors, wear a burlap sack, and still look ridiculously sexy.

Well they TRY but it doesn't really work. And my point is that I just don't see this alleged double standard. Plenty of little male actors, and not that there are THAT many female action heroes, but the ones that are around don't seem especially small or waif-like to me. Other than Ellen Page here no petite or…

It's probably your metabolism is higher if you have breakfast. I've found that I need to have something in the morning, otherwise I am lethargic and headachey all day, but it doesn't have to be substantial, usually about 300 calories will do it.

They do not hide the fact that Cruise is short because it is impossible to hide it. Even with lifts, etc., he looks very short in all his movies. As does Mel Gibson. And Sylvester Stallone. And Matt Damon. And Jason Statham.

I don't know, many prominent male actors playing "tough guy" roles have tended to the short and occasionally waifish. Tom Cruise is what, 5'6" and 140 lbs? Mel Gibson, Harrison Ford, and Sylvester Stallone are all shortish. More recently, Jason Statham, Matt Damon, and Mark Wahlberg are shorter than average. I…

I wear clothing because I get itchy if I don't have a shirt on. Don't know why. When I have bed company I will sleep naked because the fun times outweighs the itchiness.

Superman I was kind of mediocre I thought, and was popular mostly for its novelty value. Superman III and IV were terrible and I am definitely not the only person to think so. The last movie was really bad. The newest is kind of mediocre as well. The only "good" Superman movie (in terms of live-action mainstream…

"Who wouldn’t want to see a movie featuring one of Marvel’s best, most powerful characters?"

Oh, and speaking of that's all people talk about, I was seriously weirded out when some undergrad on my campus said to his friend as I walked by "that guy has lost a lot of weight!" because I DIDN'T KNOW HIM. Ugh, talk about messing with my head.

Thanks for sharing, it's nice to see that other people are going through the same thing (well, not nice to see other people suffer, but you know). I know EXACTLY what you mean about people's attitudes towards it can be annoying. I guess in a way it's like I'm mentally thinking to myself "ok, you have no idea what…

Just FYI, I'm older than you :) And you make some really good points that it took me much longer to learn than you did. The weight issue really doesn't consume me like it did when I was younger, partially because, well, I'm older, and partially because over the years I've slowly gained a pretty sophisticated…

Well, first of all I will probably never be a skinny beauty queen, on account of being a man :) But you are perfectly right that the "I'll wait till I'm thin then I can start things" is a self-destructive fantasy and one that I have had for many years and has hurt me for many years, though at least lot of the time I…

We might be too sensitive, I dunno. I prefer (and will myself dish out) a little more simple "you look great" but I use it very rarely, I use it with people who I think the compliment will make smile, and I don't belabor the point or refer to weight specifically.

Interesting, I log precisely because my OCD tends to keep me honest. Nice to harness it for the power of good rather than evil.

Wow, if you can do that well losing weight without logging calories then you have a stronger willpower than me. I do it because if I didn't I would have no restraint. And at least the weight thing is better than being told how tall I am, or being asked how tall I am. That one makes me want to beat my head against…

I'm in a similar situation; I've lost about 60 lbs this year and people are commenting a lot and it makes me vaguely uncomfortable. It's either in the form of a statement ("wow you lost weight!") or a question ("have you lost weight"), and either one doesn't make sense. You don't need to tell me I've lost weight,…

Ugh, that old trope. Women are a hell of a lot more demanding looks-wise than men are; my average-looking female friends have absolutely no problem finding guys who are interested with them, but my average-looking male friends struggle.

It's easier to blame this strawman legion of all the "crazy men" out there than accept that maybe you're choosing to talk to the wrong men.

Did they get married before they put on weight? In my experience women tend to be more judgmental of weight than men when seeking out relationships; my overweight male friends have had it far, far harder than my overweight female friends. However, once they're in a relationship women tend to be more forgiving of…

Definitely a must-see, though view it with a critical eye. It's very good on some things, but it has some serious problems with both aspects of the central thesis and by whom it chooses to present.