Paul Campos says it all:
This girl has already learned two ignoble truths about appearance in our culture: That, as a woman, nothing she accomplishes will ever be considered as important as how she looks, and that the conventional definition of feminine beauty in our culture is both extraordinarily narrow and radically different from what most [...]

So, as an upcoming project for one of my classes, I have to do a food demonstration that translates a nutrition concept (such as “encouraging consumers to adopt new food ideas”) while demonstrating my skillz in teh kitchenz.
In the past, I’ve done slide-shows of penis-shaped vegetables, and written lab reports referring to the mysterious [...]

…my unwholesome fascination with this man.

Walk it out…

Then break it down.

-That people comment, unsolicited, on my appearance. For good or ill. I do not want to hear it, because I didn’t ask you.
-That I can render myself unrecognizable to people who know me through very slight alterations in my attire or makeup or hairstyle.
-That I can only assume from this that people do not look [...]

Did someone say “third piece of pie“?
I’d like to say something about how much fat people eat. I, personally, would be neither surprised nor offended if it were somehow proven that fat people, on average, eat more than thinner people. Of course, this hasn’t been proven, and if it were, there would be exceptions and [...]

Here is a very interesting article about the history of nutrition as a science, and the rise of “nutritionism,” from the New York Times, about a year ago, which I am reading for school.
A little taste:
The story of how the most basic questions about what to eat ever got so complicated reveals a great deal [...]