Sorry but I don't see how there can be such a thing as a healthy fruitatarian diet. Fat is a necessary part of the diet and avocados and nuts are a healthy way to get that fat. If you're a vegan you really need to get fats from vegetable oils, nuts etc.

I mentioned this in another thread. As someone who's had eating disorders of my own, the things that stick out as red flags are assigning moral values to foods or groups, evangelizing the diet and claiming it's the only way anyone should eat, and being really obsessively into juice cleanses and fasts. If someone is…

That was me when I went through a vegetarian phase in adolescence. I feel bad for my parents. Getting me to eat anything besides pizza and mac and cheese was a struggle.

I remember Natalie Portman got a ton of shit for eating meat and dairy if she was craving it during her pregnancy. I also remember that Emily Deschanel got a ton of shit for staying vegan during her pregnancy. You can't win. Whatever you're eating is wrong. Especially if you're a woman. Double especially if…

Juice cleanses are the stupidest trend. Our bodies know how to cleanse themselves already. We're built to be able to digest solid foods without self imposed starvation diets. The people who are into cleanses have apparently not taken junior high level biology and do not have the slightest idea about how the…

I think diets that have built in restrictions (not just veganism) definitely attract people who are prone to eating disorders. As someone who has struggled with eating disorders in the past I can spot the red flags. Attaching moral value to food groups, universalizing their diet as the one true diet everyone should…

I loved that Clementine speech. I also loved the way that movie subverted rom coms by not having Joel and Clementine learn and grow in the end. You know they're going to get back together, have the same problems, make the same mistakes and not live happily ever after. Love it. That's one of my favorite movies.

What!? How can Maria be an MPDG when she is the protagonist of the movie/musical, the most well developed character in the story, isn't a reward for male character growth, and possesses agency. Sure she sings cutesy songs, makes outfits out of old curtains and twirls in fields but she's not an MPDG.

Caleb also made a bunch of bigoted remarks about Barack Obama on social media prior to joining the cast. I don't really like Amber much either but I do feel bad for her being in the same house as her creeper. Can you imagine? I get freaked out when I'm trapped on the bus for 20 minutes with a creeper!

I absolutely hate that people are trying to make the term "creep-shaming" happen. No. Just no. If you're a creep, you should be ashamed!

You seem more concerned with protecting the reputation of soldiers than with what happened to Sarah Goode. Did you really need to derail with some #notallsoldiers bullshit? Also, the word 'savages' has a lot of racist and colonialist history and connotations. Can you use a different word?

The "good guys" really need to stop expecting us to be able to magically tell them apart from the bad ones. Especially if they can't be bothered to speak up when one of their friends or family members is saying something misogynistic.

Actually, women are like children except you can have sex with them according to this charming TERPer http://wehuntedthemammoth.com/2014/02/28/red…

Right? My brother is autistic and he and I were still well behaved enough to sit in the salon lobby and wait for my mother from time to time. He'd play with one of his toy giraffes, I'd look at a book or magazine. No problem!

I don't think breaking a window to rescue a child counts as vigilante justice. They didn't do it for retribution. They did it to help the kids who were in distress. I know this is 'Merica where private property is always considered more important than human beings but in my mind the well being of little kids > car…

I'm glad I wasn't the only one who noticed that. How exactly are misogyny and lack of upper body strength connected?

You're not alone. I'm a feminist atheist too and I feel the same way. I was never involved in any atheist community before and didn't find out how rife with misogyny it was until the Rebecca Watson incident. Most non-theists I know in meat space were turned off by all the misogyny and homophobia in most religions…

Oh honey, it's not satire if you believe it. You use satire to critique an idea you don't believe or a person/group you disagree with. Jonathan Swift didn't really want to eat Irish babies, Stephen Colbert isn't really a right winger. Satire: You're doing it wrong. Reactionaries never can understand satire and…

Who gives a fuck if you're not comfortable with trans and non-binary people? People are supposed to hide their gender identity just so you don't have to be uncomfortable? It's a lot easier for you to just grow up and get over it than it is for someone to force themselves into a gender box they don't belong in. How…