Yeah, Lea, apparently the most frequent patrons of cosmetic surgery are middle class white women.

I don't think it's unfair at all. Cosmetic surgery, unless you've had your nose cut off or been otherwise maimed by accident or assault, is an indulgence. Whether it's inspired by a society that inordinately values youth is irrelevant. You don't change a sexist society by pretending that everything women do is somehow sacrosanct, especially when the people who suffer most from a lack of health care are poor, non-white women.

I say it's a small price to pay for health care, especially when sudden illness can be the difference between being middle class and living beneath the poverty line.

Thought I disagree with those who suggest this would somehow encourage the use cosmetic surgery. We tax booze and cigarettes and the government does nothing to encourage the use of either.

I also agree with Jinks. I'd never thought of it that way before. Thanks, dude.

I am young, childless, and educated, and angry all the damn time.

RRRRRRRRRRGH.

... I was going to complain that they would never come out of the tray without breaking apart, but now I feel like cutting myself. Come on dudes, a sense of humour is how many people cope with tragedy.

CE, I would buy that if children weren't gendered from the day they were born. Hearing people say their two year old girl refuses to wear anything but pink dresses always gives me a headache. Yeah, your two year old. She's a real diva. I'm sure.

Anyway, this is actually quite great. It isn't about getting rid of princesses, which I'm sure several more commenters are going to assume, but just about giving girls more role models that might be more relevant to them than Barbie Sleeping Beauty and her army of similarly white women who need to be rescued by a prince, which was pretty much all I had growing up. I also whittled sticks, built forts, climbed trees, loved legos and video games (still do) and asked for things like swiss army knives (which my male cousins got), but every christmas brought nothing but more barbies and pink castles, because people like CE assume it's human nature and that that's what I wanted.

I don't think there's an "overfeminist" message here, since the massive majority of our culture is still princessified. Seriously, go to a freaking Toys 'R' Us and tell me it's "overfeminist". http://contexts.org/socimages/2008/06/24/what-kids-learn-at-toys-r-us/

Surely this is not legal...

Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuugh... I'm a heterosexual woman with a boyfriend and all, but it's things like this that make me never want to get married. I don't want to be one of these people that treats marriage like some freaking stage in life I have to go through. Like it's just the logical outcome of dating someone for a long time. What, is he going to run away if we don't "tie the knot"? Wouldn't that mean he never loved me to begin with? Why would I want to marry someone like that? Why rush in the first place? What does being married really change? I wouldn't even change my name and I'm the kind of person who needs my personal space.

I know, I know, jewelers have to make a living and this weird cultural obsession with marriage is a good way to do that, but personally, I don't buy into it.

Also, I don't like diamonds.

Setting aside my irritation at some of the comments, I think there's a big difference between "not interested in girls" and letting girls take the first step. These guys like girls, but they are not interested in pursuing them. It's an important distinction.

Furthermore, I really don't think this is a movement, so much as someone needing something to write about and pretending these guys are all in some big club that's threatening the future population of Japan. I'm sensing some distinct macho anxiety here.

I'm so glad this story has a happy ending. Howard's life will never be ideal, but it can at least be comfortable. It doesn't make up for what happened, but I'm reassured by the humanity displayed by everyone involved. Solace in little things.

A wife with an on/off switch! I don’t know if this is crazy or genius – maybe both.

Is there some way I can turn off your articles?

There is so much wrong here, but at least I finally started seeing a pattern in the Neatorama articles that make me grind my teeth.

Neilo, let's just hope you're never wrongfully accused of something like that. People like yourself will just assume you deserve it and no one will help you before it's too late to save yourself from a lifetime of flashbacks.

Of course, that's always the assumption of the cowardly and the naive.

...where they interrogated (or tortured, your choice of word)...

I'm not okay with that being a matter of opinion. Words have meanings and if I were to be tortured, I wouldn't want my case thrown out of court because someone could just as easily say I was only interrogated. In a court of law, it matters what word you use. I mean, oh my goodness, has no one read 1984?

Either they were tortured or they were interrogated and we all have to live with that.

These mash-ups have nothing that I like about the Beatles's music.

Although I am amused by all the commenters who think they're clever in sussing out the fictional nature of this album's genesis. Good for you! You aren't a total moron!

I suppose I'll have to read the original article, but what about the mother shark? I mean... that sounds like a problem.