I took about a month to transition completely, I had to get used to the difference. After I got used to it I preferred it to smoking.

I’m not sure if it really counts as quitting, because I vape now instead of smoking. It’s been three years, I only do it at home, alone, and never anywhere else (because I find it embarrassing). But I feel a million times better, have way more energy, and don’t ever feel the need to smoke anymore. It’s also about a…

I always thought I would quit smoking by the time I was 30 but now I’m 28 and that magical transition to adulthood and maturity and reponsibility still hasn’t happened to me and I’m rationalizing my ass off. ‘Well, shit, maybe I’ll have died of lung cancer by 30 and I won’t have to worry about quitting.’

I’m 6 feet tall, but Jcrew’s stuff is completely impractical for me, too. I don’t wear heels with cropped sweatpants, for example, no matter how elegantly insouciant Jcrew insists it looks. Or $500 bejeweled tank tops. Or the truly, impressively hideous “Pull-on Boyfriend Short” (Item #b9922, originally priced at…

So I know I’m behind on this but is “dadbod” just a “cute” way we’re going to talk mean about heavy dudes?

Yes! All of that. What compounds my situation is it had some very Duggar like qualities (I was raised in a similar background but I had long left when my rape occurred. However when I told my parents they pulled the blame and shame on me which hurt beyond belief and the betrayal of not having a father who would defend…

As a rape victim, I’m just confused and uncomfortable with the whole thing. I guess I’m working through my trauma in a different way, and while I have no problem being a supportive voice by sharing my story to help people understand what it’s like to deal with the aftermath of sexual trauma, I’m just so so raw and…

“ Also. . . WHY is the title in French?? Why?”

The title is actually the only part about this piece that I like.

I just mean that any art is valuable if it checks your usual knee-jerk responses. I’m the same usually-dismissive way towards a lot of performance art... So if anything about it gives me pause, and makes me think of a whole bullet-list of questions about how I ‘should’ or ‘want to’ be reacting to it, then it’s got…

It’s in French because “Ceci n’est pas une pipe” is a famous painting by the Belgian surrealist René Magritte. That’s part of how we can tell that this piece is derivative bullshit: it co-opts (not references, not plays with, not subverts, just straight-up unreflectively uses) the title and concept of a canonical…

Holy shit, that’s disgusting. I’ll not make the mistake of reading a N V-C article again. Thank you for that.

I find it strange and alarming that so many people who might approach a fairly inscrutable piece of literature with a sense of inquisitiveness—willing to analyze it and think critically about it and explore the possible meanings—are dismissing this art piece out of hand as silly, worthless, stupid, self-promotion,…

Yeah, that article made me want to puke. The headline said something about Her “crotch-intensive” health regimen. And let’s not forgot that the list she was writing about had been leaked without Pascal’s consent. If that's feminism, I want nothing to do with it. Since that piece I’ve only come back to Jezebel through…

Wow, I somehow had missed that article. I am earnestly disappointed, because I was a becoming a fan of N V-C. God, that’s disappointing.

I feel like her real statement isn’t in the questions she asks or the video itself (which I honestly could not even watch), it’s in the release of this material to the public and their interpretation of it. To me, the real power in her message is simply in the comments to that video. I’m a knee-jerk “BAN ALL THE…

I just think she wants to provoke reactions from people again. Like, her first piece was about herself and her story, and people were very vocal. It was a very polarizing piece. So now she’s passing in the mic to us, like, “hey you seem to have a lot of thoughts about my rape. Here is another one. Choose how you want…

I know it has been over a week since this was posted, and I am not usually one to complain about/to the writers, but this was disappointing. I hope this is not the direction things are going in here. I look forward to reading other types of articles by you in the future.

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