Yeah, I am really into the idea of me just gracefully circling while someone else does the really challenging stuff. I mean, best case scenario, we are all crammed together so that I can bust a move but no one can really see how bad I am at dancing. But if we must have a dance circle situation, I want my job to be to…

There are some spectacular photos of me at my wedding in full bridal finery, holding a pint of bitter and wearing heart-shaped sunglasses, with full-on angsty dance face, getting down on the dance floor.

Oh man, I would totally watch America’s Next Top Best Friend. Can you imagine the types of people who go on those competition reality shows trying to be a really good friend? And the scenarios in which they would put them? “OK, so for this challenge, you’re going to be paired up with someone who has just gone through…

Jesus, the worst fight my husband and I ever had was at 3am, and it was definitely because I was so fucking tired that I had a meltdown over something that could have been a calm, chill conversation the next day. In my defense, I was not trying not to “go to bed angry” or whatever; the cat woke me up three times that…

I wonder if it’s also that women’s familiarity with emotional labor as something you do voluntarily, out of the kindness of your heart, makes us suspicious of networking, which is pretty obviously fake. I know that I struggle to falsify a good-hearted, affectionate relationship when it is for my personal gain, because…

Hahaha, when my friend speed-married a guy (we’re talking 6 weeks after they started chatting online, and she flew internationally to marry him) whom she described as “let’s be honest, probably the best I’m gonna do” so that she could slip in a baby before she turned 35, I sputtered for a really long time and then…

I mean, I think it is fine to expect the American actresses in the film to recognize the kinds of things, or to gently raise the point that, in an American context, this phrasing is evocative of a particular historical period - but I would also expect that we be equally sensitive to other cultural contexts. So if,…

Honestly, it isn’t the first thing I think of either (and I am from the South!) but I can definitely see why someone would hear the words “rebel” and “slave” and associate the two.

I think a lot of the objection is that the word “rebel” juxtaposed with “slave” wouldn’t have the same meaning for a non-American. To American ears, it sounds like, “I would rather be a Confederate soldier than a slave,” but it doesn’t have that context elsewhere.

Oh man, the best Christmas gift I ever got my parents was editing down our home videos.

I mean...I would rummage through the dump for pretty much anything valued at $4000+, but that is me.

6-7 each? I mean, jesus, who is drinking more than that at a wedding? Particularly on average - you know that some people will only be drinking one glass of wine with dinner, which frees up 5 drinks for the person who needs 11.

It costs you hundreds of dollars to attend weddings? Even weddings you are not in?

Yeah, it’s like saying that I have a condition in which I do not like to see gory photos of wounds, or pussy infections. I definitely do not have trypophobia, but I still didn’t like the google image photos, because they are creepy and unsettling, and a lot of them look like someone has tortured a human body part.

I mean... you do realize that to a certain extent, complaining because someone won’t tell you an exact amount of money they might gift to you is spoiled, right? He’s not saying “come to me with receipts and maybe I’ll reimburse you” which might leave you holding some serious bills.

I mean, I definitely would have noticed if guests weren’t there. I wouldn’t have been angry, because my friends and family are awesome and I would have assumed there was an issue, but I might have been kind of worried - that something terrible had happened, that they had gotten lost. I personally would have preferred…

Man, I got married in August, but since it is England, I was worried it might be a little bit chilly for the bridesmaids, so I got them all shawls. In August. Jesus Christ, how do you not do something for them in March?

Hahahaha I just wrote a lengthy screed defending Emily as well. I am mid-rewatch right now, and I have so many strong feelings about how wrong we as viewers were in the 90s, and how misguided the show’s directors were when they took scripts that were clearly about how Ross is a giant asshole and tried to make us…

Actually, I have been rewatching Friends recently, and Emily is, like, totally reasonable now that I am an adult. She makes the stupid decision to marry Ross after barely knowing him, sure, and then when he says Rachel’s name at the wedding, she is like, “Holy Red Flag, Batman!” and shuts that shit down. Wise. Wise…

I am one of three sisters, plus a couple of female cousins, all in the same age range. We generally give team toasts at each other’s weddings/parents’ birthdays/any family event, because we are very close, but 6 individual toasts is too many. At this point, we are motherfucking pros at event toasts. And we are always…