I'd be more inclined to agree about the radical subversiveness of "Beauty and the Geek" if I thought there was even the tiniest smidgen of a chance that they would ever do a "beautiful men/geeky women" version, a la "The Bachelor/The Bachelorette." But it won't happen: TV execs expect that men like to look at hot women, and women like to identify with (or negatively compare themselves to) hot men, and everyone likes to laugh at male dorks. But men identifying with hot men would be a little too gay for everyone's comfort. And dorky women? A tad too pathetic to provide comic relief.

Nope, no real subversion here, just more of the same old, same old.

This woman does! I've had concerns ever since college about being a very sexual person but having trouble with arousal and orgasm that even having skilled lovers doesn't always solve. I'd at least give it a whirl and see if it made a difference.

...I just like knowing that I'm not pregnant, you know? Even the Pill has a failure rate.

The author clearly has no idea what effect a decent bra can have on a woman of Latifah's size. Those of us who do, and who have admired her modeling for Lane Bryant and flaunting her plus-sized self like the gorgeous thing she is, get why it matters.

I just wish to heck that some of the Broadsheet contributors would pick up a copy of "The Obesity Myth" by Paul Campos and read it before writing another article on larger women. Their catty comments about Queen Latifah's bra endorsements and Mo'Nique's beauty pageant make it clear that they are still buying into the idea that "overweight" equals "death sentence," when even the insigators of the whole "obesity epidemic" have admitted that their conclusions vastly exceeded what was supported by their research.

In short, it is possible to be fat and healthy, thin and healthy, of moderate weight and healthy. "Fat" does not have to correlate with "sick" any more than does "female" or "gay" or "black" (all groups which experience higher rates of certain illnesses and yet members of said groups can be perfectly healthy without changing their gender, sexuality, or race - shocking!)

And now I must depart, to go soak my aching muscles in a hot bath, because two hours of dance class occasionally over-tax one's body, even if one is fat but not sick and enervated.

As an LMFT who works primarily with gay and lesbian couples, and who also sees folk of the open relationship/polyamory variety, I have to say, Cary, you screwed the pooch on this one.

Relationships in which the rules of fidelity are changed due to emotional pressure or blackmail (e.g. "if we don't see other people, we'll break up") NEVER survive. NEVER. A forced choice is no choice at all. The LW clearly doesn't want an open relationship at this time, and would only go along with it to try and "save" the relationship, an effort which is doomed to fail. If his partner has so little respect for him that he would pressure him into non-monogamy, nothing the LW can do is going to result in better treatment.

Being the blue-ribbon partner who solidly stands by your man/woman, being the "bigger person" and enduring slights and outrages in hopes that doing so will earn you the right to good treatment does NOT work. All it does is enable the other person to do whatever they want, and still have access to your love, loyalty, resources, sex, etc.

Negotiated non-monogamy is a viable relationship style, but only if the choice is freely made, boundaries are set out of respect for each other's needs, and then they are faithfully adhered to in an atmosphere of trust that honors the primary relationship first and foremost. Cary's comparison of the LW's situation to "going to Europe" is a lousy one, because it sounds like for the LW, there is not likely to be much that is enjoyable or life-expanding about giving in to his partner's demands. It crosses a line for him and dishonors his boundaries. Better that the LW should say "this is not OK with me; we need to have some honest talks about what's going on with our relationship, perhaps with help from a third party. And you can still choose to go be with someone else but let's make it explicitly clear that if you do so, it's without my permission or blessing."

"ALCOHOL HITS WOMEN 4x as hard as men"

Bull. I'm an alcohol educator and I calculate BACs with college students every single week. While we do use a separate chart for men and women, as they tend to have different levels of alcohol dehydrogenase, the difference is hardly 4x greater for women.

Did you know that 87% of all statistics are made up on the spot?

First, if someone wants to see more typical dancers, there are oodles of options other than the Lusty, which is well-known to have a variety of types of women working there.

Second, if an employee wanted to make a concern known to management regarding his thoughts on the venture's profitability, he would have used professional language, not phrases like "girls that they would not want to have sex with even if they were completely drunk."

The Lusty does what they do, and they have for a long time. Unlike a traditional strip club, earning a profit is not their only purpose for existing, though it is certainly in the interest of the shareholders, who also happen to be the employees.

and ironically, the brand of computer on which the linked video clip will not play, thanks to Comedy Central's website.