I don’t normally read much beyond the political stuff here, but that hed pulled me in. I thought Harry Styles had some delicious fish with him when his car broke down, which he then fed to the fan. I was disappointed to read what actually happened.

My understanding is that while she isn’t fluent, she does understand it and is conversational... Given she’s fluent in like, 3 languages, being condescended to about that feels pretty gross, regardless of intent.

A straight interview would have been him asking them questions about their music and their lives, not repeatedly obsessing over what language they speak just because they aren’t white. FFS.

Remind me why Jimmy Kimmel is considered to be progressive? He is very much not and never was. 

Plus how many people actually feel anything more towards Thanksgiving because of some connection to the Pilgrim story?  Not many.  They want to see their families, be able to go out after dinner for a walk in the cool air, maybe settle into the couch alongside everyone else for a drink and a doze in front of a…

“[Martha Stewart] also normalized the idea of fall decor to celebrate the season itself by treating pumpkins and corn husk wreaths like decorations.”

Can’t I just love fall because it isn’t hot as balls anymore, the rain comes back, and it starts getting wonderfully, peacefully dark again without it being an intellectual exercise?

I hate pumpkin spice lattes. And I am totally ok with pillorying them- so Puritan, for one thing, to put anything in the stocks and punish. I do get that as a writer paid to observe American culture, you’ve gotten the tone of pretzel logic -needed to observe a culture you’re part of- spot on. A few things,…

There is nothing too innocuous that a woman can do that they cannot Do Wrong, according to Jezebel.

Yeah, I work with factories in China that were recently closed for their mid-Autumn festival. Used to work for two different companies owned by modern orthodox Jewish families of Syrian descent that closed offices for two days for Sukkot every year. If you think an appreciation for fall, even going so far as to…

I left Jez a long time ago due to this sort of thing (among other things). I don’t care one way or another about Taylor Swift (although The Man is legitimately hilarious and awesome), but the way they deified her and then ... whatever this is here. So tiresome, so small.

Great point about the harvest festivals, they’re kind of thing . . . everywhere.

We simply like the idea of a day of gratitude and a family meal together. At the start of the meal we go around the table and everyone says what they are grateful for.

I came here to say this too. Harvest festivals have been around for millennia and are certainly not just for white ladies. 

I am a white, 60ish female. I live in Wales, where summer lasts about a week if you’re lucky... However, I love Autumn, have had two pumpkin spice coffees so far. Does this make me a bad person? Okay, we don’t have thanksgiving here, but the article seems to labour the point. Thanksgiving celebrates taking from the…

Paragraph 5: “Thanksgiving was only a regional holiday and celebrated largely in New England. It had no actual link to Pilgrims and Native Americans” [goes on to explain that the Pilgrim connection is bogus]

I feel like I’ve seen this trend become a thing during my lifetime and I saw it as a pushback against the summer culture that reigned in the 80s and 90s. Women started enjoying a season where we get to be less social, more comfortably dressed and eating rich, delicious foods with less judgement from those around us. Su…

It’s that fucking google login that just kind of inserts itself on every device somehow.  I keep the church and state separate as well, but sure enough, I go into Chrome on my work laptop and autofill is taking me to goddamn pornhub.

I think the reason for that is how it’s being reported. When I first read it (on a major news site, I think it was NBC News), the story said he inadvertently exposed himself on Zoom, and that he thought he had his camera turned off. To most people that sounds like a mistake anyone can make. Then, you see the full…

I also grew up in a tiny East Texas town, deep behind the pine curtain and am so curious to know where this is!