I dunno, given that the heat index is going to be somewhere between 105 and 110 tomorrow, I have to say that I really love the idea of a dress that just lightly sits on my shoulders and touches no other part of my body. Some of these are even kind of cute. I said it.

why do my clothes have to be “flattering?”

Elon Musk is a brilliant genius/possible alien whose mission is to save humanity through electric cars and the colonization of Mars. Seriously! Tim Urban did a great series of posts about him on his Wait But Why blog.

but let us compare:

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I am not a huge fan of Taylor Swift but this whole thing trying to take her down is just petty and juvenile.

Given the disaster-in-waiting that is the Rio Olympics, from the dead mascot to the bay contaminated by human feces and raw sewage to the beaches strewn with body parts to the overcrowded favelas to the cratering economy to the government riddled with corruption to the shoddy construction of the venues to the lack of…

They can be sexually active but they have to lie about it.

I dunno. Cleveland is a long way away and I don’t think my wife would approve. Still, wicked generous of him to make the offer.

There’s something unique about all those logos beyond what you described. The McDonald’s “M” is curved in a way that nobody else draws M’s. Microsoft’s colored boxes are specific colors in a specific order. Target’s bull’s eye is a very simplified bull’s eye with an accompanying font. Nike’s “whoosh” is unique in how…

But...it’s just a heart.

Also, can we stop calling them ‘honor killings’? It’s murder, plain and simple. The root of the motive may be sexist, patriarchal cultural ideas, but it’s still murder. Calling it ‘honor killings’ implies there a legitimate reason for it, or that culture can be used an excuse. It cannot.

Thank you. I just straight up distrust “feminist” arguments aimed at policing and critiquing individual women’s survival strategies within misogynistic systems rather than the systems themselves. That is not my feminism.

Thank you! My feeling is that women who aren’t thin, white or famous face similar (and worse) attacks on their reproductive agency every day. And I can’t see anything wrong with a famous woman using her public platform to push back against this widespread “your womb is our business” sentiment even if it affects her in…

Damn. I have been with y’all for a long time, reading and loving your articles. And then every now and then you have to drop some mess like this to remind me we aren’t really on the same team.

JA hasn’t struggled about finding a designer dress but she has struggled with years of tabloids speculating about the status of her uterus and mocking her for being the “loser” in that whole “lover’s triangle” she found herself in when her hubby kicked her to the curb publicly for his co-star.

While women are oppressed differently—depending on the color of skin, money made, conventional attractiveness, gender identification, age—they are all oppressed.

Yes, I guess that’s what the essay is getting at? That because JA is thin, White, and conventionally attractive she needs to “take a seat” and stop complainingabout how these standards of beauty are oppressive because she has essentially become one of the standards of beauty other women are held to.

“Discusses” or “is forced to answer intrusive questioning by a “reporter” with an already defined agenda who will then make answer the central focus of the piece in order to sell magazines.”

I guess because it’s late Friday afternoon but this essay confuses me...what’s the thesis statement? That women who are body-shamed shouldn’t be “clapping back”?