Did you accidentally go to a local arts and crafts fair and not the RNC?

*jerk off motion*

You are missing the point. It is one thing to send emails to your intellectual crush, saying all sorts of pretentious goofy things you think sound smart. It is another for these two people (why do you keep forgetting about him?) to publish it, convinced it is high art. It’s a set of pretentious emails where each one…

Honestly? No.

Not hate, but mild contempt. Let’s not oversell it. She’s pretentious. So is Foer. (He is also very overrated.) Pretentious people are annoying.

I could never abide the fact that she supports Roman Polanski (like so many other people in Hollywood). And she wrote some Op-Ed a few years ago which compared eating meat with rape, which kind of sealed it for me. She’s talented, but ignorant.

Why do we do this to ourselves??? I’m having a severe allergic reaction... to myself

when i was 15 i called a boy “magnetic” in an email and the memory of it still makes me want to barf

Gah I know! It’s probably not technically possible to cringe yourself to death, but it certainly feels like it.

It’s viscerally embarrassing to read. I suddenly feel ashamed of all the obviously, transparently performative emails I’ve written to smart boys in a desperate bid to get laid.

So confused by Reese’s tweet! My brain could not compute that it was two different people. It wanted to believe it was two side by side images of Young Reese and Slightly Less Young Reese.

I prefer to think that Uzo Aduba is too cool for thirsty group shots? Or maybe just spent her time chilling on a towel instead of Performing Fun?

Suspicious? No.

I was guilty of using the same language, making the same stupid jokes, and never giving one thought to what my targets might be going through. It took years of getting out, reading, and experiencing the larger world around me before I began to develop a greater sense of empathy and mental discipline when it came to…

Sorry, but no. Actually, not sorry. Just no.

Umm yeah, Retarded is a pretty big trigger for most mentally or physically disabled people. As a parent of two Autistic kids who are both rather intelligent, it makes me cringe to hear someone say the word retarded when they mean it to denote being stupid. But it even goes back farther for me. I used to volunteer with…

I’m 31 and use a cane. My cane isn’t a symbol of my disablities, it’s freedom! With my cane, I can walk longer and farther than I could without it. Abled folks don’t seem to realize that for many of us, our assisstive devices are liberating, not a prison^.^

Then you share in the ignorance of your company.

This is a wonderful piece, and you sound like a great brother. But — as someone who understands the power of certain words, and how they’re used, you should get this — I wish you hadn’t used the phrase “confined to a wheelchair” multiple times. My wheelchair doesn’t have straps or locks that keep me from moving;…

The world would be a much, much better place if people could stop for a second and imagine what it would feel like if someone said the horrible shit they’re about to say to someone they cared about. Great article. Thanks.