I agree. I've experienced the same thing. There's a certain troubling, unspoken trend wherein a thin person somehow deserves to be shit on or at the very least it's okay to shit on them because the tradeoff is that they AREN'T FAT. As if you being thin is a direct threat or causation to them being fat. This is bogus…

there's so much vitriol in these comments directed at the idea that thin women could ever feel victimized, or if they do it's because they somehow asked for it. I'm a thin woman and always have been. I am not a "diet obsessed twit" who blabs my nutrition opinions to others. I don't have an eating disorder, I'm not a…

i wish i could agree entirely with you, but unfortunately I can't. I'm a thin woman, always have been. I do not discuss my diet with others. I don't have an eating disorder, I'm not a "bitch" or a judger or fat shamer. In fact, I don't think anyone deserves to be made to feel badly about themselves based on their…

this is really well-articulated. Often it seems people feel compelled to justify "fat acceptance" with the argument that you can be significantly overweight and still healthy. "size or 'fat' acceptance" to me has always been about the ideology that fat people don't deserve to be belittled based on their size. And I…

But intervention isn't a competition? I actually quite like Intervention actually, because those people are pretty objectively about as far down as they can be. We can point fingers about exploitation and it may be true financially (anyway all television, to a degree, is exploitative). But the bottom line is that the…

i would REALLY recommend investing slightly in a lelo or another high-end brand. they retail for more than your run-of-the-mill $40 vibrator - in the low to mid 100s for some of the top models - but they last a lot longer and are more efficient in all senses of the word.

yeah, i've never thought she was particularly pretty. a decent actress, but always struck me as one of those people who relies entirely on crazy hollywood beautification to look glam, not a natural beauty. i also think she's a bit thin looking now, i thought she looked better in her Mean Girls days.

well, with all due respect, you come from Canada. and we're talking about something that happened in the US. in the US that's predominantly not the case, and if someone wrote "black girls" on a check in reference to a table that they are serving that would not be viewed as kosher either. it's a sensitivity issue.…

it's an insult, this guy is a shit, and they have a right to be pissed. and for anyone who claims that "tsk tsk, fat is just a descriptive word", let's be real. it's not "just a word" any more than faggot is "just a colloquial succcession of letters" or "black" is "just a factual description with no accompanying…

pretty sure nurse jacintha was responsible for nurse jacintha's suicide.

i worked at restaurant/server jobs all through high school and college. from experience, it's customary to give the busboys a cut of your tips if you work in a slightly nicer place, and if you work in a short-order type place it's customary to give the line cooks a small cut too. because all of those people get paid…

I am so over the media bias that all too often effectively covers up violent crimes against women in attempt to glorify or preserve the image of a powerful male celebrity. OJ Simpson murdered his ex-wife, got off, and then wrote a BOOK about it nearly twenty years later. He has been capitalizing off of his crime for…

horrific. i also feel terrible for kate.

YEAH

goddammit, these teen magazines are worse about repeated self-image transgressions than lindsay lohan is about not getting arrested!

it seems unhealthy to endorse a weight loss program that allows people to drink booze or eat candy/fake stuff in lieu of real nutrition. i'm all for treating oneself, but not at the expense of getting the stuff that actually makes you healthy.

I attended northwestern university for four full years. I graduated almost three years ago, so I'm unsure of what the campus protocol is currently. When I was there, I can safely say that there were mental health services readily available and easily accessible to students. Fortunately I never dealt with anything like…

....this may be the worst column I've read here this year

It's also pretty crappy and irresponsible for a feminist website to suggest that any std beyond herpes or HIV isn't a big deal. Gonnorhea is horribly painful. Syphilis and chlamydia can affect fertility and contribute to other pelvic problems if not properly treated. Hpv can lead to an increased risk of cancer in…

Mhm....It can't not be, but its also not funny, so color me confused.