Her birth name is Mary Willa... maybe she chose Mamie herself? Or they've been calling her that since she was a wee tot? IDK, IDK

That's actually a really excellent point... a show like that far too easily lends itself to making statements that come off as being really racialized, even if that wasn't the explicit intent.

I don't live in NYC at the moment, but I'm planning on moving after I graduate (along with half of the other recent college grads in the country, I'm sure), and every time I suggest living in Queens, my friends look at me like I'm mental. But everything I've read about it says it's easy to get to Manhattan, the…

Also, they are all missing the only pose Vogue is familiar with: the "So happy to be in a studio I just gotta jump with really wide eyes!!"

I don't care what you say, the "hip dysplasia" is perhaps the absolute BEST way to look bangin' in full body pictures.

According to Google, she's an art director at the NYT and a very talented artist. Kinda odd that she wants to make such a, er, drastic career change but hey. Do what you love.

Okay I am a hipster (well half my head is shaved and I wear combat boots- that counts right?), and I could never see myself following gutter punks. I hooked up with one not too long ago and, no offence to any gutter punk Jezzies, the sheer amount of building things and not being afraid of any germs was kind of…

1. If Kim is 200 lbs, then she must also be 6'3. She hasn't gained nearly as much weight as she has gained Pictures Taken In Unflattering Angles

Hardly conclusive data, but Beyonce and Rihanna are two of the worst selling cover celebrities, and apparently Liya Kebede's Vogue US cover is one of their lowest selling issues EVER. Institutionalized racism: it's a bitch.

Well when they're casting for black girls they want "white girls dipped in chocolate", according to one agent, so it's not like there is a great diversity in the way black models look either. The majority are medium to dark in complexion (Tyra Banks is one of the few lightskinned top models I can think of), with…

Ugh, I was already thisclose to getting rid of my dreams to work in the fashion industry, but this ish just really put me over the edge:

Came to say exactly that. There were fewer models of indigenous latina descent on the NYFW runways than even black or Asian girls, so I can't say I'm terribly surprised... :(

Sadly, I think it's before- didn't you see that one black lady? Little does she know, the Children of Ham will be relocated to the Midwest in a matter of months...

Thing is, they totally think that's where America is headed. They seriously think Obama is leading the world into an Animal Farm meets Clockwork Orange divided by 1984 world.

Ugh I didn't mean meritocracy... I think I was going for institutionalized disenfranchisement? idk, so brain dead at the moment...

I dunno, maybe it's just the liberal pinko commie in me, but the Hunger Games seemed pretty "flat tax rate" to me- all districts gave one particular product to the Capitol, but the burden of the production was far heavier on those given fewer (thus not equal) opportunities for nourishment, education, and autonomy than…

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Does this mean my never-had-a-boyfriend 22 year old self should be out curing cancer or solving fresh water crises then..?

Maybe I'm reading too much into it, but I think looking at her quote in a more womanist light- considering not just gender, but also race- is pretty important. Black women have always been seen as "less"; just look at those OK Cupid race studies from a while back. I frequently find guys totally okay with the idea of…

I 100% get the appeal of having children late- financial stability, career mobility, enjoying your youth- but I also feel like it would be really fucking annoying to be changing diapers and chasing after a toddler in your forties, or dealing with a horrible, angsty teenager around the time you're gearing up to retire.…