So other people seem to have luck with the "all knowledge is contained in Dreamwidth/Livejournal", so I'm going to see how I do.

I've been looking at style blogs like academichic a fair bit recently. What is up with all the photos, of a large number of women (so it's not just the idiosyncracy of one or two), where their toes and knees point in ( Read more... )

Or at least the automatically-generated, "context sensitive" ads crack me up ( Read more... )

I've been looking at blogs like Mrs O and The Black Snob, and noticing that Michelle Obama is the same general shape I am. When she looks good, she's wearing cuts I can see myself in, and when her look doesn't work shapewise, it looks to not be working the same way it'd not work on me. Also, flat shoes! (Now colours and accessories are a whole ( Read more... )

It's times like this I really dislike some aspects of LJ.

You see, I've got an email telling me that someone I've not heard of before (deepstarrysky) replied to a comment I made in someone else's LJ. Looking at the comment I made, it looks only vaguely familiar, so I think it must have been at least a month ago, and I'd willingly believe I made my comment ( Read more... )

mrissa made a much-commented-upon post about naming three things you like about your body.

( I've held off writing anything about it, because I feel weird after reading all the comments )

All this talk about eating disorders and judging women by their looks and so forth got me thinking about weight ( Read more... )

This feels like a very weird thing to write about, but since "my experience is not the same as your experience" is a common theme in my on-line interactions, I think I have to stumble through somehow.

redredshoes has a great rant about what really killed Terry Schiavo. I agree with just about everything she has to say, deferring to her greater experience ( Read more... )