@morninggloria: Right?!?! She belongs in a mother goose nursery rhyme book! I want to give her hugs and then drink hot chocolate with her. Also, you know, the heroism.

@The HZA. [member of the zombie nation]: Although I feel like some of it was in the wrong direction. It may be because she's walking in the second photo, but her legs certainly look more muscular in reality than the smooth, unbulging stems on the cover.

@feministabroad: Well, I still say it's pretty offensive to have someone touch your hair to know what it "feels like," which is precisely what people would say to me (and then they would say "Oh! it's soft. I thought it would feel like hay/plastic/horsehair/etc"). I have no intention of minimizing the wrongheadedness…

@feministabroad: Hey, man, it's not just a white-on-black thing. Back when I colored my hair bright, fun colors people of all races asked me if they could touch it. Still, this made me laugh, too, since I remember seeing my friends deal with hair ignorance when we were in middle school.

@Stephanie: Probably not, no. I mean, he might be able to do some basic "mama" stuff, but speaking on command I think is a little beyond the abilities of infants. Hell, good luck commanding a 2-year-old to say amen.

Give it here so I might lick him, and lick him good. Oh, Russell Brand, I have no idea why you do this to me.

@Beat Girl [formerly Miss Carrie Nation]: But since the new vagina isn't self-lubricating, wouldn't all the artificial lubricant cause trouble if it's not cleared out? Or is the formerly-penile tissue just way better at dealing with that stuff than I give it credit for?

@Mireillepa the Rappa: Ew! But the hospital probably needs them to check for abnormality, anyway, right?

@pupsnpies: Holy fuck! I almost forgot about those. Now I'm raring for an Underdog!

@grrl: That's the problem, it *is* causing health problems. In areas that are not terribly dense it's not as bad, and in areas that are modernized it's not as bad, but the big meaty bit in the middle, the densely-populated areas without plumbing, have huge public health problems as a result.

@grrl: It also seems like a few fairly simple solutions exist. In a free-standing home situation it wouldn't be terribly bad to install the bathroom door on the outside of the house, so you have to leave to go to the bathroom. Or, do as the Japanese do and have a separate pair of slippers only for use in the bathroom,…

@grrl: I'm pretty sure they just mean "marriageable" as in not too young, not too old and not already married.

@motokitty: Brawndo, it's what plants crave!

As someone who grew up the "curvy" daughter of a skinny, athletic and constantly self-critical mother, I have some body image issues of my own. While the whole idea of faking may not the greatest for the woman doing the faking, it seems like the only way to break the cycle of body images issues passed from mother to…

@msAnthrope: That's what this made me think of, too. Surely disfigurement was at least part of what they wanted to accomplish. It makes me so angry I'm actually at a loss for words.

While I do love me some girl scout cookies and don't mind seeing an order form posted in the office, I fucking hate having every coworker come to me when their kid has a fundraiser selling wrapping paper, candles, candy, cards, or when I get bugged to buy Mary Kay or Avon at work. If you want to post a form someplace,…

I once heard Dan Savage sort of explain this phenomenon by saying that if people define you by your sexuality, they automatically think of you as more sexual than someone they don't define by their sexuality. He was saying it in the context that children *don't* do this because they don't quite have the dirty minds…

Back in Elizabethan times approximately half of all brides were pregnant. Does that mean they were insanely open minded?

@sportz.star: I'm from Illinois and that's still what I thought of. I've never heard of anyone refer to anything but the funny mormon underpants as big-G garments.

OMG Dodai, your dog! *love*