I respect the sentiment that you can be small and have good bone health, but also: people struggling with eating disorders have an increased risk of early onset osteoperosis, and this is a serious long-term issue even for people who’ve made it through recovery and out of disordered eating.

Yeah - you know, I’ve also had luck finding local makers on internet platforms. I know Etsy laid off a bunch of employees recently and that as company they themselves are not above reproach, but you CAN use their search function to filter by location and find local makers that way, too. When I was lucking for a…

If people really want to talk about what’s ethical they might reconsider buying anything at all from a huge company like Anthropologie and spend more time actually looking for local makers and supporting their work. This story and others like it offer a sort of catharsis to the reader/consumer that to me often seem to…

IS Isabel Marant seriously selling mass-produced brass earrings for $280 a pop, though? You can get a hand-made pair of these from an indie maker for less than half that (and minus the stupid engraving) if you look on etsy or go to any bourgie store on the west coast.

This is a pretty common design that I’ve seen tons of makers use (especially in brass, but also in ceramic and other materials), so I’d be a little more hesitant to head straight for outrage. That Anthropologie offered to re-order but at a lower price likely reflects the ubiquity of this style of earring and seems…

I was just going to write something really cynical here about the assumptions we make in evaluating the worth of or pleasures made possible by or futility/absurdity of or moral qualities ascribed to human life, but then I realized I’m feeling super depressed this evening and I probably shouldn’t be a dick to a…

He is a bit of a hawk, though. NGL, I find him almost painfully charming and pretty much preferable to everyone else we’ve had in office, but his record as Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces of the United States is not exactly without fault.

That is an insult to rats everywhere! Take it back!

I think it’s possible they have a large vocabulary. Also a fragile ego.

Lol

So. Seems like plenty of us are familiar with this word.

I really, really hate this video. This song is such a strong, felt, and humanizing pop song, and the video’s low-budget burning man vibe (plus horrible titling) almost kills what, for me, is Kesha’s first release worth listening to. I don’t think I’ve heard a song that so accurately encapsulates how I feel toward the…

Yeah. I think the lower drinking age probably leads to less binge drinking. If you go to college or leave home and have already learned that drinking is not romantic or subversive but rather a morally neutral habit of which you can choose to partake moderately or immoderately (to the benefit or detriment of…

this is not that hard to make! You’re more likely to get that texture if you do it at home than when buying in a grocery store, and it’s really not tough. Just google “how to make yogurt.”

do you like goat or sheep’s milk? You can usually get yogurt made from those in mid to high end grocery stores, and it’s more like real yogurt (and not strained/greek yogurt or the gross sugary stuff). Generally the stuff that’s not fruity and disgusting - and this goes for cow’s milk products too - comes in the…

Just get Fage! It’s the og greek yogurt and it’s usually just yogurt (thought they do have a few flavored options where - and I think this is till true - the yogurt and the fruit/jelly/honey is in a separate compartment/mixable by you!).

I’ve never had a problem with alcohol (I’ve had one drink in 10 years and was never much of a drinker before I stopped) and I’m still pretty concerned about drinking culture here :/ And I don’t have any religious or moral objections - just a sense that people are not being provided with healthier tools for self-care…

I tend to think that that overindulgence of evvvverything is a profound neurosis developed in response to a pretty sad socio-economic framework (which has equally sad roots in Calvinism/Puritanism/the Protestant work ethic)

Though you could argue that Calvinism and the Protestant work ethic (so, Puritanism) so greatly shaped modern capitalism that what I’m saying is no different from what you were saying. :/

(As someone who has spent years on both sides of the Atlantic (I grew up in western Europe and have also lived there as an adult) I’d argue that it may have more to do with European attitudes toward work and social welfare. I do wholeheartedly agree that we’re more puritanical here in the US, and that it affects…