“People with no sense of humor should stay out of comedy clubs.” This is the comment I just deleted from my facebook profile, after I “liked” a link to a response to some comedian who made a poorly-received rape joke. Here’s the article. Here’s the deal y’all: rape is too misunderstood and way the hell too prevalent, and […] Read more…
Clothing your Curves: Suggestions for the Full-Bust Shopper
Shopping can be painful at times for a full-bust woman. For some reason it boggles the mind of clothing manufacturers that just because our busts are full, our bellies and backs may not be correspondingly so. Popular stores like H&M, Zara, Urban Outfitters, and J. Crew are particularly unfriendly to curvy chests. Button-down shirts and […] Read more…
How Not to Shop, with Sweets
Wow. So, I keep telling y’all to stand your ground in lingerie shops and demand your size or demand pretty things in your size, and I just went into a boutique on my lunch break and totally bombed. Very Nice Store Representative: Can I help you find anything today? Sweets: No thanks I’m just browsing? […] Read more…
Posture
I feel like talking about “Posture” is a bit prim and old-fashioned, like “Let’s all go to finishing school and work on our hope chests and wait for gentlemen callers,” you know? Plus we’re all bent over computers and smartphones and co-sleeping with our laptops anyway, so why fight the inevitable? Well, for a couple […] Read more…
Compliments, and also Recommended Reading: Be Less Crazy About Your Body by Megan Dietz
Lady Mary recently recommended (in response to Fighting) a short book called Be Less Crazy About Your Body. It’s by a hilarious writer named Megan Dietz, and the Kindle version is only $2.99, and Kindle books cost pretend money anyway (wheeeee credit card bill!), so I bought that sucker right up. I love pretty much […] Read more…
Sweet Nothing Du Jour: 7/6/12
From Rampaige, author/artist of Busty Girls Comics: And I shall clarify: Boobs are sexy. Just like lots of other body parts, breasts can be sexually attractive. Unlike other body parts, however, that seems to be all they’re allowed to be by society. By extension, people who have breasts are often reduced to being seen only […] Read more…
Gusbuster
The vet alleges that today is your birthday, you little street mongrel. Happy 1st birthday, darling boy. I got you . . . um, breakfast. And a back rub. Please continue being your goofy little self. Read more…
PSA: Mimi Holliday
Tonight I had an appointment on the Upper West Side and had some time to kill beforehand, so I ducked into Loehmanns. I could do with some new summer tops and skirts, so of course I headed straight to the lingerie section. Obviously. I was surprised and delighted to find a number of Mimi Holliday […] Read more…