Thank you for this. I think the nurse in question might have been thinking along those lines too, actually.

**Pssst...*** Doom metal person is actually me. Don’t tell anyone.

Death Wish Coffee: appeals to aging skater punks who probably listened to a lot of stuff on Epitaph Records back in the day, and maybe still wear knee-length black shorts with skate shoes when it’s below freezing even though their hair is graying at the temples and they have a grown-up job, a nice apartment and even a…

I have often thought that the term “self-care” betrays a certain classist mind set that permeates mental health care. I once explained to a psychiatric nurse that I was there because I had had to take time off work due to panic attacks, and he said “well, it’s good that you were able to do some self-care.” I was like,…

Besides being bang-on for the Baba Yaga look, that’s Little Edie Beale remixed.

So I hate to be the wet blanket, but Atwood’s reaction to the Steven Galloway sexual assault scandal seriously disappointed me and diminished her credibility in my eyes.

I got my grubby paws on my mom’s copy of Sexual Politics the summer between grades 11 and 12. I think that and The Female Eunuch (which I also found on the family bookshelf and read the same summer) shaped me as a person. Although I’m pretty sure I’d find a lot to disagree with in those books now, as a teenager I…

the racism that endured all of my life (and that I don’t doubt exists here as well)

That photo of her in the hospital makes me want to cry. Ow ow ow ow ow

Okay, I know what’s happening right now is way too serious for facepalming, but

Wait, does this count as shade? I think the well-placed comma after “foul taste” pushes it over the line into shade territory.

Well, looks like I judged too quickly and without enough information. I have changed my opinion.

Wow, who could possibly wish for the demise of a civilization that could invent something like this?

High five. I broke up with a guy once because he was into Evanescence.

Not gonna jump into the conversation about hair nomenclature and politics.

The no name ripple chips are the shit.

I’m on the fence about that. Tiny Furniture, which she definitely helmed, was really, really good. But then again the best episodes of Girls have Judd Apatow’s fingerprints all over them. And her personal essays are awful, boring, shallow, self-indulgent, etc. She wrote one that consisted entirely of waxing poetic…

Dunham’s telling of this anecdote as if it were funny (and not suggestive of psychological problems) was indeed disturbing. But the implication by her various, mostly right-wing scapegoaters that a seven year old is morally responsible for her actions was also pretty disturbing.

I’d say calling this a “hack” is misplaced since it doesn’t actually solve a problem. As far as I know there’s no hack for being a fuckstick who lords it over service workers to feel special, unless you count sticking your head in a toilet and thinking seriously about where your life took a wrong turn as a hack.

That’s why I could never get into that show in the first place. Not that a show with an asshole as the central character can’t be great (see: Curb Your Enthusiasm), but I think SATC lacked the requisite self-awareness. I sort of felt like audience was just expected to uncritically identify with this shallow asshole…