Agree re: Silver Linings Playbook, both about her youth and the accolades. I wanted Jessica Chastain to win. I thought Lawrence's youth was OK for American Hustle though because they emphasized that she was a young struggling single mom when Christian Bale's character hooked up with her; I thought she was supposed to…

That's awful. Have you told these women any details? My ex cut his father dead long before I met him (but he was and I assume still is very close to his mother; his father died in 2001, also before I met him) and when he gave me some details, I was like "Of COURSE - you did what you had to do!"

Totally agree. I think so often, people assume that family trumps all and you should respect family as a matter of course. But respect is earned. My cousin is a wonderful kind man who happens to be gay; his father treated him cruelly when he came out. (That happened before I was born - Cuz is really my mom's first…

Very. Who is anyone to say that this place doesn't represent her? I don't know her from Adam and neither does the author; maybe it DOES represent her. And no one I know of any age or level of messiness would leave pizza boxes strewn about when their place was being photographed - let alone by fucking Vogue.

I love hearing that my crushes are nice. Pharrell is so hot.

I have no interest in being famous. Would like to be rich, but fame? Where people are outside your house and swarming you in public and going through your trash? No thank you, that sounds miserable. I'm a pretty private person so having to be "on" all the time would be completely exhausting. I would fuck up my first…

Agreed, and it's been my default setting even in relationships. I'm not one for big grand gestures so when I had a dude on Valentune's Day we always did things small. (I got an ex a T-shirt that says "Masturbation is Not a Crime" one year and that was his favorite gift.) Now I am single; today is just Friday. It's…

I have this track on my iPod and phone. No one has done it better. Gives me chills every single time I hear it. In her prime, her voice was THE TRUTH.

Yeah, "afford" is a relative term. It's very common to spend 40-50% of your income on rent in NYC because rents are just really high. If you are paying around a grand a month for rent, people will call that cheap no matter how much you make. I had a 5th floor walk-up one-bedroom with an eat-in kitchen in the west low…

Yeah, just try to imagine sitting your kids down and telling them their sister is now their stepmother. It sounds crazy. It IS crazy. You may not be able to control how you feel but you can control what you do, and Allen chose to implode his family, plain and simple.

One of my coworkers found her first gray at puberty. She's been dyeing it since high school. She's in her mid-forties now and her hair is totally white; she colors it red (natural red, not Kool-Aid red). She has a gorgeous thick head of hair - I think it would be amazing if she let it go white but she doesn't.

My natural hair is fine and copious - I have fine curly strands but a lot of them. It's also dry. I use a lightweight moisturizer (Oyin Hair Dew is the shit) on dry hair daily, co-wash once a week, and shampoo every week-ish. Shampooing more often than that leads to dryness and breakage. I exercise quite a bit and…

I'm paranoid about this - I work out on my lunch break when I have time to take one, and I always do at least a quick rinse (black woman, natural hair, wouldn't/can't wash it daily). I see a colleague in the gym sometimes. The first day we were in there together I marveled at how he could get back to his desk so fast…

One of my best friends teaches middle school and she's constantly like "Dude, my students REEK LIKE THE DEAD." She now teaches an an all-girls school and thought the absence of boys would help and she says it does, but not nearly as much as she thought. "Girls reek too!"

I had the same thought - can't they just not go? I could see a case for being mad that exams weren't canceled in dangerous weather, but a regular old class day? Just stay home. College students skip class all the time - it's not like your pay is docked if you skip Intro to Anthro or whatever. This is not only…

I used to work with someone who was a fan of the Kardashians. I asked "A fan of what though? They don't do anything" and she was like "I just like them!" (For demographic purposes, she was a married white admin assistant in her late 20s with a bachelor's degree.) Her husband apparently "judge[d] her for watching," but…

Yes indeed. Glasses removal + The Look = hotness.

I was seeing a guy who took his glasses off whenever he kissed me and I was finally like, your glasses are SO SEXY, please leave them on. He was like, now what now? He was a suit and tie guy so he would often roll up his shirt sleeves and between that, his glasses, and how good he was at his job, whoo, chile. One time…

I love broad shoulders. Love. I also love a nice forearm - I am a complete sucker for a man in a dress shirt with the sleeves rolled up - but a nice pair of broad shoulders gets me every time.

Me too. And I like her acting and she does seem nice, but she is one of those famous people where I have to just see their work, not their interviews, because she bugs me. I find her ... hokey, or something. Her "It came true!" when she won the Oscar seemed so cheesy and rehearsed.