Let me just preface this by saying I’m not a writer so please bear with me…

Polite disagree. Some of her songs are extremely catchy, and deserve their Best Song Grammy noms. She’s magnetic in live performance and thrilling in videos. She’s also been generous to folks covering her music.

This author seems extremely stressed about this issue, having written this exact same article multiple times.

I’m a biologist. You aren’t meant to be vegan. We haven’t evolved to be vegan. We are omnivores. We have incisors for slicing meat from bone. We have canines for tearing large chunks of meat and we have molars for grinding plant material. We also have a short intestinal tract more suitable for digesting and processing…

>At one hospital, he was “misgendered by staff,” and said no one checked in on his feelings throughout his appointment there.

“People with uteruses” = biological females. They are, in fact, the only humans who can get pregnant and give birth. Identify as whatever gender you want, but that doesn’t erase basic biological truths about sex and chromosomes. No amount of surgery or hormones can change a person’s DNA from XY to XX.

I’ve never bought the whole nakedness-as-empowerment narrative, for any woman in any position. Sure, she’s “choosing” it, but even if it’s somehow not demeaning her (I think it is), there are ripple effects for, um, all the other women out there.

I’d like to address young Emily’s remark (“As old men on the internet are wont to do [he’s 65])“...

If anyone ever asked me about my early life girlfriends, the only thing I’d be eager to say is that they’re lovely people, and the fact that we’re no longer together shows how wise they were. Don’t go into specifics, be self-deprecating and complimentary.

It is so gross and hypocritical when women do this. Publicly assess their male exes bedroom styles or techniques.

Man, I Feel Like I Know This Woman

I suspect even more women secretly want to stay single, but can’t afford the astronomical cost of living alone in most parts of the country.

Camel, eye of needle, just being a generally good person ...

I can’t find my notes...do we hate Jen now?

The Trench

Random Handsome Ceramic Loving Man

Some observations of themes so far this year:

It’s interesting to me how there are so few creepy actual people or stranger danger stories (don’t worry I saw you Machete Gang and yikes) so I get the vibe that a lot of the commentariat is still not all the way outside. I started an in-person job in April and have had…

I have a few stories about my mom in this thread, so I waited a bit to write my own. A simple but powerful occurrence.

This happened to the ex-boyfriend of my cousin Alex. His family had just purchased a home in San Angel, a neighborhood in Mexico City filled with history and old houses. Among other things, it was site to the mass hanging of men belonging to Saint Patrick’s Battalion.

A Single Flower