Why? I mean, except for elite bodybuilders, the whole thing about it being inaccurate is not true. Unless you mean that it can potentially miss identifying skinnyfat people (normal BMI, but too high bodyfat). Otherwise... what's the problem?

No, they aren't, which is really sad. They used to have standards. Then they bought out all the little guys and slowly eroded those standards. They put corn syrup and hydrogenated oil crap in their store-brand baked goods now.

Oh, my god. Wow. I'm so sorry.

WTF is with people's sense of entitlement?

Yeah, I'm holding out hope. It kind of gave me flashbacks to ACOD - that movie was also chock full of awesome people but didn't fully meet its potential. (Though that looked a lot better than this in trailers. Haha, Ben Wyatt with Leslie Knope as his insane step-mom!)

Ugh, no kidding. And the supporting cast looks really awesome as well. I want to love it so much. But, that trailer... yikes.

But.... it is a made up a holiday...

Wow, kudos - that's a succinct and spot-on summation.

I posted this elsewhere, but I'm with you. I'm embracing my cranky old woman. I'm clearly not the target demographic for Jez anymore. Do you know any other sites that are similar but... less immature?

Does "this shit" include what Jezebel has become? Because I think I'm there. I'm so over it... and yet I still come around out of force of habit. Do you know any comparable sites that are less ridiculous? I'm looking for new stomping grounds.

It's true-to-life to her, sure, but she very much sees herself as a victim to whom all this trouble and torment is happening. And I may sound unsympathetic, but I understand how difficult it is. I've lived through a lot of it and I've lost 50 lbs from my high weight as a teenager. I have loads of mitigating factors…

Well said. This piece is really self-victimizing. That's not to diminish the difficulty and complexity of weight issues and how that interplays with our culture... but deciding you are the victim and that you can't own your actions isn't a healthy way to move forward. Healthy decisions (to exercise, to make…

You should consider having your thyroid checked, just to be sure, but more likely you were retaining water from starting a new exercise regime or accidentally underestimating your calories.

Oh god, I misread the headline and thought it was about a cat grooming and snuggling a cold, dead dog. :/

This is super random of me, sorry - but as a kindred spirit, you might find this blog interesting to give a once-over: http://mymorningroutine.com/

I dunno, I thought she (or he) was using the term to effectively demonstrate how it is to have a minority view against a prevailing cultural norm. I think your take on it is making a lot of unfounded assumptions and projections not based in the words that were actually written.

I feel like there's been a distinct uptick in assholish smugness from the writers lately judging some subgroup or another- I can't really blame them for the clickbaiting. It works. But it's obnoxious, no matter who they aim at.

I'm with you. I am so over the food wars in any iteration. Meat-eating, vegan, vegetarian, gluten-free, gluten-tastic, whatever. All kinds of assholes follow all kinds of diets, so I'm not sure why the diet gets blamed for shitty behavior. One vegan or meat-eating asshole is not a damning indictment of an entire…

Actually, if you take vegetarianism as an ethical stance and truly have a revulsion to the eating of animal flesh, I don't think the whole indictment of "meat culture" comes off as that ridiculous — it's just that mainstream culture has so normalized it that the criticism seems weird. I also think vegetarians (and…

Congrats!! And good luck painting!