@jefesmama: I hate it when people- generally and specifically, my boyfriend- use cocksucker as an insult. If it's so demeaning, then, fuck you, I'm not sucking your dick anymore. I thought it was a fun, generous sexual activity that, by the way, many men desperately desire. How can you expect someone to participate in that once they find out that it's just a huge insulting joke on them?
@OrangeLuxe: I find it smug, repugnant, and othering. If she had hired a white model, do you think she would have mentioned how pleased she was for taking such an important step? No. She would have said, she's pretty and will represent us well. Because Smalls is black, Lauder says, "Oh, we're so pleased! We have a black friend now!"
I am pleased that Smalls was hired; she's clearly beautiful and I encourage diversity where I can get it in fashion. I do not encourage the bullshit and back-patting that comes with it.
She looks like Miley Cyrus in the close-up shots (with the fake green eyes, as opposed to the fake blue eyes).
Also Kesha's makeup always sort of makes me jealous...it looks like that would be really fun for a while. I've always been jealous of that Madonna think with the fucked-up hair and insane make-up and just not caring at all. It's like a walking party! But then you have to do stuff like pump gas and eat a sandwich, and then you're just that sad try-hard with shit all over your face. Hm.
Consent does not "complicate" the relationship between sex and pleasure, it defines it. Without consent, sex and pleasure are not linked. In fact, it's not called sex at all.
Also, College Junior Back From His Semester Abroad, please regale me with tales about how you only smoke Gauloises, and with your new understanding of Sartre, and how you transcended tourism the first time you watched the sun rise from your lover's arms. Then shut your face.
Nothing that I have seen in entertainment media surpasses my hate for Spuffy. If this movie features anything related to the oderous designed-for-Red Shoe Diaries-lovers-no-wait-Teen Beat-Lovers Buffy and Spike foreva! black hole that swallowed the last three seasons of that show I will not see it.
Other than that, I don't like the idea, but I might give it a shot if I hear good things. Sorry, Joss.
@Penny: I can't empathize, but I can sympathize. Sometimes you find the person that you want or even need to be with, and you have to fuck everything up to make that happen. You cannot tread carefully around everything.
But I've also been the person on the outside saying that they're both assholes, because they got what they wanted while one of my friends was horribly heartbroken. My recrimination was not fair, but it also didn't last forever, and I hope that someday my friend will also not be angry and hurt.
I had a cavity filled about a month ago. Yesterday, I woke up and it hurts to chew on that side. It is definitely the filling area- poking around in there demonstrated a specific soreness location. It doesn't hurt generally, only when I am attempting to chew on it or when I am inexpertly poking around in there. Is my filling rotting or something? What does this mean?
@dcwonderwoman: Also, it takes you 5-10 minutes to blow dry your hair and pin it up? Do you have incredibly short hair? I'm not vain about my hair, at all, and blow drying takes me about 30 minutes if I'm only 10 minutes out of the shower. I can cut it down to 10 if I wait about an hour to let it air dry.
@mandabear: I have a really wicked scar on my thigh that is old and white and faded, now almost perfectly blending in to the rest of my leg in color but not texture or tone. I still hate it because it looks like major cellulite. It is so dumb, but sometimes I fall prey to the dumb when it comes to body issues.