"As someone who has struggled with her weight, can I just say: in my life, people have made rude or disparaging remarks about my race, my religion, my sexual choices, my Ivy-League education, my interests and my hobbies.
Although I did once have a fourth-grade friend make a nasty remark about my size, it was much less painful than the time a tenth-grade friend told me I was going to hell because I "worship idols" or the time a group of freshman girls at aforementioned college ostracized me because I didn't attend their church.
Despite what we may want, there are always going to be nasty, judgmental people out there."
"@treschic: I feel bad for your roommates, but maybe their problems weren't all caused by the mags?
Could be a symptom of the problem as well as a cause.
Either way, I tossed out women's lifestyle magazines when I realized they were never going to feature Asian girls like me."
"@krose: So this columnist who writes for the RedEye (a sort of trashier edition of the Chicago Tribune) recently wrote a column about this very thing!"
"Hmm...all I can say is that my sister is one of my favorite people, and although neither of us is always as honest as we could be, if I wanted to write a massive fake memoir and make millions, I'd probably get the sister's permission first."
"I'm in a human sexuality class now (600 students) and before the first day we took an anonymous online survey where the professor asked how many women in the class had been raped (according to their own definition, not anyone else's.) 21% of the girls in the class said they had."
"Occasionally I dress for a specific man but that's usually a bad strategy because then I'm really conscious of the fact and I just feel uncomfortable.
I don't dress for women because while I admire that, I just can't keep up."
"@BringBackTheBustle: I think an eating disorder is like any other disorder: it's not about how much you eat, it's about whether your diet controls your life/emotions.
I'm also on the opposite end of the scale."
"@haguenite: So I realize someone else already said this, but I definitely think "Islamic culture" has a lot more to it than the lopping off of little girl clitorises."
"A friend of mine once told me, with a little bit of disgust, that her little sister had started dating their first cousin while the family was vacationing in Lebanon."
"For every white guy with "Asian fever" there are two who were raised in some backwoods town and refuse to date a woman who doesn't "believe Jesus died on the Cross" because then marriage is impossible.
I have had guys tell me this."
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