This is related to one of my favorite issues in behavioral change, the "health belief model."

It's not illegal at all for a bartender to choose not to serve someone if they feel that it is not appropriate to do so.

Is he talking about a woman who has several drinks in a week while pregnant or he is talking about women who binge drink or have several drinks a day while pregnant?

Alaska actually has one of the highest reported rates of alcoholism in the country. I believe that somewhere around 12% of the population, which is higher than the national average of around 5-7%. At one point Alaska also had one of the highest rates of FAS in the nation, especially amongst native Alaskan…

Neither extreme nor expensive for me. My major clothing overhauls are all on things that I have found on super sale, in the thrift shops, etc.

Your point is well understood.

This is interesting to me. I consider these women to be part of whatever "plus size" is intended to cover. I think that they are overweight, even though no one should actually care what I think and I certainly wouldn't say that to anyone who didn't ask me what I thought.

How is it condescending to point out that some people find the furor of Kim on the cover of vogue a bit baffling?

Yes, but maybe not in the way that you mean.

In my opinion, yes. It's handholding.

Or, you could go with the reasonable assumption that as a mature, functioning, responsible adult, the employee would do the right thing and make themselves aware of the procedure by reading the handbook that they have been provided.

I'm not saying that I agree with Nationwide, but yes, "throwing it in some fine print in an employee handbook" does count. That's exactly what the employee handbook is for. It exists to inform employees of policy and procedure within the organization.

But the larger point remains. I live in Viet Nam at the moment and saw an absolutely stunning photo exhibit a few weeks ago. The artists wanted to portray the wealth disparity and conveyed it beautifully with a shot of two women standing outside of a shopping center. One woman was in a gorgeous wedding dress posing…

But she isn't ramming her vision. She's just saying that if you want to get "fit" you'll need to work for it. If you think that you can't do that because children/job/what have you, then you should consider that other people in similar situations have also done it.

I'd call that chubby.

No, it doesn't. It rests on the premise that there are people out there who want to make a change, but for whatever reason have been making excuses about why they "can't" as opposed to make plans for how they "will."

I absolutely agree with you.

But she's not saying that there is anything wrong with that.

But she is clearly saying that she is not naturally skinny, so I don't quite get your point.

I worked with women who were recently released from prison for various offenses, so I guess that's pretty underprivileged.