I am never sure, when approached by a man on the street, if I should be nice or mean. Either way, it seems, I pay for it.
In the past I have, in some cases, flat-out ignored men who attempted to speak to me. Sometimes this was intentional, sometimes not. This is my version of [...]

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 [...]

As you know, I’ve been painfully working my way through Scoot Over, Skinny: The Fat Nonfiction Anthology. This morning, I encountered the article about sweathogging, which I’d read before. I barfed up my rambling reflection into my paper journal. Apologies beforehand for the repetitive/arrogant focus on my appearance.

I’m fat. It’s no secret to me or [...]