Reader Roundup

Clap your hands and tap your feet: Today’s best comments can’t be beat!

Best Comment Of The Day, in response to Nothing Beats A Great Pair Of Legs: “Oh, no—why did you have to ruin fashion for me, too, John Edwards? WHY?!” And! “This 69us-interruptus coat is just the thing to wear with bed hair.” • Best Comment Of The Day, in response to The Ugly American: Jessica Simpson’s The Price Of Beauty: “Jessica Simpson: Putting the No in Ethnography since 2010” • Best Comment Of The Day, in response to “Offensively” Fat: The Truth Behind Weight Stigma: “If we shame people for being fat and idealize thinness, everyone will be thin! Brilliant! Next step: glorify youth and make people feel bad about getting older. Then we shall surely attain immortality.” • Best Comment Of The Day, in response to Desiree Rogers Forced Out For Being A Grinch?: “Oh rumor mongering, how I love thee. Now it’s Christmas cards, first it was Michelle Obama’s jealousy. Soon enough we’ll find she slept with Barry/Or that she was fired for legs too hairy. Either way no one wins, but we’ll have fun lambasting all the PR spins.” • Best Comment Of The Day, in response to Someone Finally Says It: Tampon Ads Are Stupid:

For years, I’ve dreamed of a commercial featuring a choir of claymation menstrual products singing
“Bleed on me
When you’re not strong
I’ll be your friend
I’ll help you carry on
For! It won’t be long
Till you’re gonna need
Somebody to bleed on”

I hope you’re all with me here. They’d be swaying and singing very soulfully. At the end, the pad and tampon would high five.

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