I agree completely with you. I do think punishment helps to understand the severity of the crime committed. I too was dissappointed with the ruling not because I'm a glutton for punishment, but b/c I think the sentence sends (posted to Seriously Chris Brown? WTF?)
Thank you for responding, I appreciate that. This post is something that we as feminists are familiar with already, as you stated, but it needs to be talked about again and again, and I'm glad you brought it up. Thank (posted to Effortless Perfection)
I definitely made me look at him differently as well. Here are Smith's actual comments in response to the incident: "Jada and I reached out to both of them," Will said. "If it’s help they need, then let’s get it (posted to Seriously Chris Brown? WTF?)
This is an interesting post to me. I'm a black woman and in my community if someone says "you are so thin", you are so skinny" that means something bad. It's a negative thing to be thin. In my culture (posted to why is it OK to tell people they're thin? )
As a married women with a not easily recognizable wedding ring, whenever I had a situation like yours recently, I felt the same shame. Except it was more like "No, guys, I'm married, don't look at me like that!". I (posted to I Put My Ring on My Left Hand)
My favorites are a long, slow, look followed by"I hate you", and recently "how do I look like you?" and "God, it's like hugging a skeleton". It's trivializing. No matter what else you do, weight trumps everything. You're fat, you (posted to why is it OK to tell people they're thin? )
As someone with an ED I am aware of how a simple comment (positive or negative) or even percieved comment about weight or food can be detrimental to someone. When my closest friend developed an ED that eventually contributed to (posted to why is it OK to tell people they're thin? )
I wonder if that is because only people who are thin are considered eating disordered. Yes, that is the reason. There are large people who practice extreme calorie restriction or expenditure with compulsive exercise, but because their BMI is not (posted to why is it OK to tell people they're thin? )
I lost weight several months ago because for some reason I kept getting sick. It was totally unintentional and I was feeling like crap. I went to work and a coworker who had an ED in the past and knows (posted to why is it OK to tell people they're thin? )
Ah, yes. I was too ashamed to buy my own a couple of years back, so my partner bought a pack of three for me. It was positive (I made him pee on one of the three just to make (posted to I Put My Ring on My Left Hand)
