How extremely weird that the insurance company wasn't more helpful—considering that this was, as others have said, insurance fraud rather than an "abortion scam," I would think they'd be interested in avoiding having to pay if they could. Finding ways to avoid paying bills seems, in fact, to be the main occupation of…

Yes, that's what I thought as well.

I see you're getting some pushback here, and I think I understand why—she's never tried to push women to actually wear 4" heels, and I've NEVER heard her call anyone ugly. But I also see where you're coming from. I used to love that show, and a perfect cleaning day for me was a Saturday when a WNTW marathon was on.…

Waitwaitwait...the WI anchor is Ron Livingston's SISTER?? I don't know why this blows my mind as much as it does, but I find this information staggering.

An Oscar winner, even!

I realize this is not at all the point of this post, but I seriously think that Poo-Pourri represents the downfall of American dignity far more than Honey Boo Boo or deep-fried butter.

But it sounds like your mom was contrasting your perceived flippancy with what she sees as marketers' Very Serious Intentions. When the point is not that we shouldn't take this seriously, but that pinkwashing is pandering at best and taking advantage of people's legitimate fears at worst. Not that I don't think…

I think that your point of view and mine can sort of uncomfortably coexist—they don't exactly contradict each other. I don't think she's setting a GOOD example, it's just that I think that's secondary to the more immediate fact of her own safety, and the personal tragedy of someone repeating bad patterns and inviting…

But aren't you just now contradicting yourself? Basically what you're saying is: "I don't think she's hurting herself, but I think that girls who follow her example would be hurting themselves." She's hurting herself by continuing her relationship with an abusive man. Every individual act—supportive tweets, public…

The person Rihanna is hurting the most by staying involved with an abusive man is herself, and at a certain point it starts to seem weird to keep harping on this "setting an example" thing. As if we're saying, "we don't actually care about you for your own sake, we're just going to add to your problems by criticizing…

It's easier to just pretend that "she emerged looking ruffled" means this:

The whole "non-negotiable" stuff reminds me of this thing: http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/bizarre/sicko-marriage-contract-one-ages

I seriously think that double standards around sexuality are just as bad as they were 50 years ago.

God forbid the married man be expected to control himself. No, the woman making out with him is the "whore." "...even though he was wearing a ring." Poor man, the ring was his only defense, and somehow she managed to penetrate the force field with her slutty ways!

Aw, thank you! I'm very flattered.

I think that Madonna may have actually trained her body to reject fat by this point. Like, if she goes crazy and eats a pint of Ben & Jerry's, those ropy muscles start churning away really fast of their own accord, heat her body up to around 250F, and just vaporize that fat.

Oh, maybe she did. If so, I missed it too, but it's entirely possible. In which case, "I wear meat" makes more sense. She's not speaking about something that happened once, but an actual HABIT.

I thought we were all over it, but I guess she wants to keep milking every last ounce of attention out of that thing!

"I wear meat," uch. Trumpeting some allegedly edgy thing you did two years ago as if it were still relevant makes it even less edgy than it was to begin with. You'd never catch Madonna rapping about her old cone bra.

Even if there are no nefarious intentions, it can't help but be annoying to hear this ALL THE TIME. Like you, I'm white, and I get this question maybe once every couple of months, usually in the course of a larger conversation. I don't think for a moment that she's exaggerating when she says she hears this every day—I…