Holy hell, am I your liberal friend? Because I have had that exact same outburst somewhat recently, though I realize it’s neither effective nor persuasive.

Maybe I’m a bitch, but this was my first thought. I’m also 24 and often told I look a little older, but her face makes me look youthful as hell.

To be fair, Rory is chronologically 32 but she acts a lot more like a 22-year-old. Plus she’s still incredibly reliant on her family and it would have made more sense to me if Lorelai had at least given her a little side eye about it. 

This drove me crazy! I was always irked by the whole “we can eat 5,000 calories of sugar and trans fat a day and stay a size 4" thing but at least there was never any outright body shaming or fat phobia in the original series (or rather, I don’t recall there being any).

Ugh this is likely true. I have a mood and personality disorder and I’ve never been able to find a shrink who specializes in the latter and actually takes insurance.

They do look freakishly similar, but Girl B is actually Palestinian and just happens to be suuuper white passing.

I know I probably shouldn’t be, but I’m a little bothered that it took Dr. Phil giving a celebrity his usual treatment for people to point out the exploitative nature of his show.

As a lifetime Florida resident (mostly not by choice) I can confirm the weird drug fuckery. There’s a booth at my local flea market that still sells K2.

Ugh, thank you for pointing this out. The water fountain picture is from a school I subbed at for a couple years and I’m still sick about it. (Along with everything else, that one just hit particularly close to home.)

I had the exact same experience and holy hell I was insufferable. I was also dropping a lot of acid at the time though, no I mostly blame that.

You summed up precisely how I feel about this and I wish I had more stars to give you.

This is so important. Forcing kids to hug or kiss people they don’t want to just breaks down the whole concept of consent and personal agency. I have a strained relationship and lots of issues with my mother, but one of the best things she did was teach me it was perfectly okay to say “no.”

As a relatively chubby lady with a chubbier almost-girlfriend, I can attest that this is wholly untrue.

As someone who writes ad copy for a living, I would just like to add:

God their web show is the only thing that gets me through Mondays. Also, I wholeheartedly agree with your entire comment. I love Alaska and can’t deny she was the top performer for most of the competition, but goddamnit Katya’s humor is both disturbing and maybe too smart for her own good

Black and (perhaps less often) brown children are often tried as adults when they’re barely teens. A prosecutor in my home state put a 12 year old away for life a few years ago.

There most assuredly (and unfortunately) is, at least in most states. They’re not especially lengthy either, so I doubt they could charge him with something that happened over 20 years ago.

That’s ok! It’s a pretty common socially conditioned assumption. And I’m lucky to have a solid support system. It’s just a strange and not fun feeling for the person who was sort of at the epicenter of that to be the absent.

Thank you, and I really need to. I just feel like a giant open wound at the moment.

Thank you so much. I have a friend spending the night, which definitely helps make the emptiness of the apartment less awful. And my fiancé (I should probably get used to saying ex-fiance but I just can’t yet) is a pastry chef who works pretty much constantly. She was putting in 80+ hours a week and hardly seeing each…