I cried when she talked about waking up in the morning in the White House built by slaves and her girls playing on the lawn. I admit it, I bawled.

Fuck how long have you got?

As someone upthread said, the gallery is awesome, and there’s also a great general museum. There’s a great big pterosaur skeleton, and this enormous musica clock with dancing wooden people.

The National Gallery of Scotland is free and has some really nice pieces. (Titian, Poussin, Rubens, Van Gogh, Monet and Rembrandt are all represented.) Princes Street Gardens is also lovely, and while it isn’t free, the Scott Monument is worth climbing.

Dah...

Hopefully Game Developer Barbie won’t be found unceremoniously butchered in a dirty motel bathtub.

(p.s. Goddamn you, Supernatural. I will never forgive that.)

I know its supposed to be a Barbie Dall but I see Charlie Bradbury action figure

I live in the SF Bay Area so I know approx. 9 million vegetarian/vegan people and I can tell you that only a select few of them are jerks about it. That is the result of my highly scientific study.

God damn I love the word “buffoon.”

He’s such a dick, I’m having a difficult time answering this question objectively.

Yep, and as someone on the thin side of the spectrum. When I lost weight and had a fashion-model-sized torso, my rib bones were visible. Yet, skinny underwear and bikini models never have visible rib bones, in part, due to photoshop.

Oh it’s deeply ingrained alright, the shit cherry ontop of that poop sundae is that if you manage to negotiate the shame assault course to having a modicum of positive self-esteem, you will then be risking being labeled conceited, it’s a lose/lose scenario.

Yeah...when I was undergoing chemo in high school I was down to like 98 lbs (and I’m 5'6") and I still had a belly. Pretty much no boobs to speak of, not that I have much still, but definitely have never had a flat stomach.

I feel the same way. That said, a lot of plus models are actually a size 8 or 10, so they’re not truly plus anyway. But you’re right, I never see plus models in campaigns with stomachs that stand out like 4 inches from their abdomen, or hang down, or anything. And the rolls of their back are always hidden, even in…

It seems that in some ways, it’s harder to have the body of a plus-sized model compared to a straight-sized moded. The tiny models can use various eating disorders. But to somehow be an (1) hourglass or boob-heavy hourglass, with (2) a flat belly, (3) no double chin, (4) slender feet and ankles, (5) and minimal…

You’re totally in the right. Models and ad campaigns can only do so much about destructive beauty norms. At bottom they’re just changing or (at best) expanding the category of “beautiful people,” which can only exist in contrast to “not-beautiful people.” So it’s great that people who used to be in the latter category…

100% this. cum is for porn and slang and sexting, it looks stupid when you’re trying to write something lovely and want to write about ejaculation

IRL I usually go with “Je suis arivee´”

First off, I’m so sorry. Second, bravo. I get the desire to say “rape is not sex” (it’s not) but the “rape is never about sex” trope is wrong (studies show this) and potentially dangerous, since it discounts a ton of date rape, child molestation and other assault driven primarily by sexual desire.