On the other end of the spectrum: One of my closest friends had anorexia in her late teens and early 20s. Now she is recovered (thankfully), but does not weigh herself as a means of avoiding re-triggering any old habits. Every time this poor girl visits a doctor of any kind, they demand to weigh her, and she has to go…

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right?! they are compact, easily portable, and have a built in wrapper.

that...is crazy.

I think it's fair to say that all things considered, these two were probably the worst prepared terrorists ever. Ignoring the existence of security cameras, trying to stage why appeared to be a second installation of the first attack almost entirely unarmed, shooting a cop and assuming his gun would not be secure,…

AH GREED. I feel bad for her, because I think she's under the impression that people are only paying attention to her writing because of the drug aspect. In a way it's sad that she's been so rewarded for it with attention and press, because I've read a good amount of her stuff and she does seem talented. IMO drugs do…

what's with him and HIV? He's the only filmmaker I know who's hammered this bit home in MULTIPLE FILMS (see: Janet Jackson and her gay hubby in "For Colored Girls", tangentially the worst movie I saw in all of 2011), and yet always manages to do so in the most homophobic, anti-female, sex-negative, melodramatic,…

as someone in the biz...people care a fuck ton, and almost all people that care reside in states that fall between Pennsylvania and Nevada.

just trying to picture what it'd be like if I married my college boyfriend. It would have been HILARIOUS, just like watching a trainwreck, or a 5-car pileup, or silently witnessing a young girl enter into an imperfect union with Mr. Wrong that will, by Ms. Patton's logic, ultimately dominate her life and wreak havoc…

"My husband's academic background was not as luxurious as mine, and that was a source of some stress... I think he felt a certain level of resentment." - Or maybe the source of stress and resentment was sharing his life with a person who gets off on pathologically lording her arbitrary successes others?

ophira, sweetheart, you should never read the comments.

YEAH IT DOES!

millenial here. I go to work, pay my bills, come home, mind my business. i hope to one day have a family; I enjoy my job fine, and though I've had my share of shitty jobs and shitty career blunders at least I've got something now that doesn't suck. I'm happy to have my health and a place to live.

erm, duh?

nitpicky this may be, but good god, if you click on that link those shoes that Shia LaBeouf's gf is wearing are the unholiest of unholiestly horrific looking shoes i've ever freaking seen.

word. she REALLY needs to stop with the shapewear and sheath dresses! are you kidding? Kim-o, if you're trying to downplay the pregnancy, sorry, word's out. If you're trying to downplay the weight, word's also out that pregnant people get fat.

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Wow, haha - that's good of them to think ahead. I think it's great that you identify that way and they gave you the freedom to explore. One of the things I do love about interfaith marriages is that in many instances (at least in my experience) it can mean parents value love/happiness over religious boundaries, and…

right? yours might be the MOST diplomatic attitude i've ever had in response. You have no idea how many insulting things people have said to me over the years. It's ranged from people telling me i am jewish "regardless of what I think" and, in select nastier circles, that my parents' marriage "is not real in the eyes…

word, lena. every jew i've ever met has insisted i'm jewish because my mom's jewish. its super funny because i've never done a religious thing in my life anddddddd my catholic dad is half my DNA. sorry, not joining your club.