After watching that series for a season, I wouldn’t let those morons touch a Barbie dream home, much less my own home.

The NY Times did a great extra section last Sunday:

I’ve noticed this, too. It’s just anecdotal, but it’s like some people put their toe into adulthood, don’t like it, and go back to the comfort of other people making all their decisions for them. And it always seems tied to some religious “awakening.”

I had my first existential moment in a Chuck E Cheese’s. I was climbing up a play structure made of a giant pyramid of blocks and when I reached the top I was struck by the fact that it just... ended. I didn’t feel any sense of joy or accomplishment for reaching the top, I just knew I had to come to terms with the…

I’ve thought a lot about your comment because I’ve always found “Believe Women” problematic as well for the reasons you mentioned but also because our country has always “believed” certain women over others. Our history is full of examples of white women being believed because they accused a man of color of assaulting…

Mine is fairly recent — within the last few years or so. I’ll preface it by saying that I’m autistic, so I struggle a bit with friendships. When I was younger, “friends” would basically only keep me around because I legitimately couldn’t tell the difference between when they were laughing with me or laughing at me. So…

In my experience, “Mad Men” is more apt. I worked in D.C. before Reade and since Reade. I would say that women had power in different ways. Many bright women served in prominent staff positions and others were powerful because they were secretaries to a powerful person who trusted them and knew how capable they were.…

IDK but I am enjoying how we’re all calling out this bullshit. Every visible comment.

Yeah this whole article is childish and irresponsible. It hasn’t been that long, people. Our great grandparents, grandparents, and parents lived through times when all they could do was write letters to their loved ones over huge distances, sometimes across oceans. I’m already getting friends peer pressuring me to…

It’s pretty fucking irresponsible.

For some of us the ‘90s feel like yesterday, but in fact it’s roughly 30 years ago, and some rules were different. Homosexuals were becoming accepted by many as deserving of basic civil rights, but legally recognized marriages were wishful thinking. AIDS was a fatal disease. Date rape was a thing, but “drunk people…

Who the hell thought this series was a good idea?

Thanks, y’all.  My uncle is dead because other people decided to be selfish and greedy.  You are the reasons we will have at least some lockdown measures for the rest of the year.  Everyone who ignores the rules extends the rules.  Go to hell.

And I needed for someone to touch my body after having not even have received so much as a hug for over 6 weeks.... Most of my friends were quarantined with partners; they receive touch every single day and have a shoulder to cry on. I was happy for them, and also felt resentful for any judgment that could have come…

Going up to the top of the page and clicking the speech bubble has been working for me about 90% of the time, but I agree that the comment section has been fucked lately.

Heads up: loading the comment section on the articles has become nearly impossible. On my Mac, I need to reload at least once to see them. On my windows laptop, 2+ times. I’ve just figured out the trick for the iPhone (reloading won’t work) - click on one of the articles at the bottom, wait for it to load, and then…

Absolutely agreed. And I hate when people talk about this shit, about how we didn’t come home until the street lights came on, etc...but it’s true! My stepkid is 9 and there is NONE of that. He basically is under my eyes the entire weekend. He doesn’t have the skills to make friends spontaneously or the freedom to go…

I don’t know because I wasn’t an adult then, but I have the impression that my parents generation were not all that stressed about us. Obviously we were babies once and all kids have to be prevented from killing themselves but this whole…

Dude, speaking from the other side, just be ready to be flexible and remember, “this too will pass”. It was a real shocker for me, as a person who was very efficient, time focused, and got shit done, to adjust to an infant. You just have no idea how it will go, and everyones experiences will differ. Every baby is…

Just to piggyback off what you said, I personally feel like I don’t want to have kids for some similar reasons. Back in the day, people had kids because they were assets, ie. could work the family farm, inherit land, look after younger kids, etc....But now they are nothing but a job. Maybe I am selfish, but I just…