oh! everything makes a lot more sense now, ha.

yeah, that's what I figured you were referring to — not sure why you felt the need to ask me if I had seen it. we seem to agree on this point. I think maybe you misread my post.

you can totally speak for me if you're going to be as spot-on as you just were.

where did I do that, exactly?

what?

so he's insulted that a woman would want him to be above a certain height but 'ethnicity' is a required field for potential dates to fill out? OKAY.

uh, participating in that part of the performance at all? takes two to tango, friend.

i mean, there's plenty to criticize re: miley's part in the performance with regards to race (really — plenty) and the weird pedophilic sexualization, but yeah, portraying thicke as completely helpless is, while totally par for the course, disingenuous.

i use it as often as i can, along with the phrase 'rustles my jimmies,' to hasten my evolution into the scowling curmudgeon i know i was always meant to be.

"I was not expecting her to be putting her butt that close to my son," says Robin Thicke's bewildered mom. [NYDN]

as nice a thought as that is, no, the 'logical' conclusion to 'real women have curves' is 'if you do not have curves, you are not a real woman.' it's just more exclusionary bullshit.

no one's saying it was, but the amount of criticism she's receiving in comparison to her (also apparently willing) male partner is both unequal and driven by slut-shaming. that's what's being said.

you're victim-blaming. stop that.

from the article:

nowadays it's generally considered Not OK to fat-shame people

I did! still the same response. while shaming anyone because of their bodies is wrong, no matter the size, to claim that skinny-shaming is 'the new fat-shaming' or that thin people face even a fraction of the systemic discrimination and ridicule that bigger people do is just plain obtuse.

skinny-shaming is definitely the new fat-shaming

Do you really believe he actually meant he was going to rape her and abort her?

oh, qurl, stop. you're just embarrassing yourself now.

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