This is not a remotely new beauty standard. The lack of cultural awareness in this post is deafening, especially for Jezebel. This is an extremely Indian phenomena and blatantly racist/classist. This is all about caste and skin color. Dark skin anywhere on a light-skinned Indian is considered unattractive in Indian…

To be clear, I hate the inappropriately noodled armed warrior chick meme. (My #1 offender: A waifling playing a Shield Maiden of Rohan. If you can heft a shield and wield a sword, you do not have the waif look.) That said, this seems to be taking the concern to a self-parodying extreme, because it doesn't apply here.…

I'm still trying to wrap my brain around exactly how this happened.

By 26, 8 years after graduation from high school for most, the majority of folks should be in the working world and living as adults. It's also a widespread cultural notion through the West that one should be settled in, both in terms of career and family, by 30. I'm really not sure why anyone finds it weird or…

SO MUCH THIS. The white privilege insisting the sad story to tell is that of rich white tourist having a miscarriage in a country when we're talking about a country where spousal rape is legal, violence against women is common, abortion access is limited to the rich, and prenatal care practically not existing for most…

Really Jezebel? This is the last place I'd expect to the pimping of such a piece of white privilege. Oh no! A rich white woman had a miscarriage in Exotic Colored People Country! What an epic! How moving! How inspiring!

Sarcasm aside, this is seriously problematic. In a country where spousal rape is legal, criminal…

This is not remotely a new thing. When I was younger we had "daisy dukes". Before that, we had Daisy Duke herself (and the legions of imitators). What is Jezebel's thing with people acting like all this stuff is remotely new when this stuff literally predates the birth of everyone here.

And why should we dig at that blog entry? I don't see any body shaming or anything. I see a fitness orientated person sharing a relevant story. Since when is simply being into a fitness lifestyle an evil?

One of my lady friends told me about thigh gap and I thought she was just trolling, because that'd be like her. I'm a bit horrified that she wasn't. This seems entirely bizarre me to me, as a guy. Anyone have a bit about the origin of this trend?

It's certainly objectifying. However, if you're having a hard time keeping up, you're snoozing. These have all been in parlance for at least six or seven decades in "gentlemen's" magazines.

It's all about statistics. Individual gene variants are found worldwide. Statistically associated gene and mutation clusters, notsomuch.

I did, I did fuck that muffin. [hangs head in shame]

Dear singular 'they' haters:

Singular, gender neutral usage of the third person plural dates back throughout the entire history of English. Please put aside your Victorian pretense of knowledge and get over it.

Thanks,
Everyone Else

Did it never occur to you that people's unironic acceptance of the art speaks more to the art's message and truth than "correct" appreciation? That's not a misfire; that's accidentally being more on-target than ever intended.

So because people are idiots, the artist is wrong?

Congratulations! You got the artist's point. You just missed the point that you got the point. Which is also part of his point.

It's not and that's the point.Come on, Jezzies! I expect y'all to be sharper than this.

The context makes it seem like you are the one who doesn't understand the concept of consent. The general nature of the attraction is made clear to visitors. The disclaimer and initial speech includes prompts for questions and concerns. After all that, attendees sign a disclaimer covering the general bases, saying…

You don't know anyone that works in haunted houses, eh? A cheesy rubber mask in a crappy haunted house gets you at least one elbow to the face and three screaming shove downs per season. Attractions like this actually have a lower incidence of performers assaulted, because of the target audience and general…

Yeah, I hate when they cross such evil lines. How absolutely unethical of them to inform of you of the nature of the experience, make you read a waiver, and make you sign agreement to the warnings to indicate your full understanding and consent, all the while providing an INSTANT STOP safeword. The absolute madness of…