The highest rated men’s game of the tournament, Connecticut versus gonzaga, had 7.99 million viewers. NBA games are tricky because players rest, there are 82 of them so there is less demand, and fans generally just wait for the playoffs. You don’t need to compare decontextualized ratings data between college women and…

I honestly can’t tell if this is just a bad take or if you have a profound misunderstanding of what criticism is. Yes, an algorithm can analyze what you are listening to and feed you more of the same so you can sit passively absorbing content without thought. But it cannot provide criticism. It cannot thoughtfully…

“Yet, none of this is particularly surprising. It’s the natural conclusion of stan culture, of intense parasocial relationships with celebrities”

I wouldn’t be surprised if they were effectively in a long-distance relationship because of work obligations, and found that they’d basically turned into friends instead of lovers.

As if this website doesn’t enable those people

I keep forgetting this isn’t a Ted Lasso subplot.

Nah, a Gen-Xer wouldn’t have a babysitter. They’d be home alone since age 6

“And this is Ari, my babysitter’s boyfriend, because my parents are never home, so these are my replacement parents.”

Although mostly forgotten now, there was time in the early 00's when Sophia Coppola was scorching hot. Her first two movies—The Virgin Suicides and Lost in Translation—were fantastic and fresh. She was also married to Spike Jonze, whose first two movies—Being John Malkovich and Adaptation—were maybe even better IMO…

The “my parents are never home so they are my replacement parents” bit was funny but kinda ouch. All the money in the world can’t make up for that feeling.

I disagree that it’s typical to be friends with a serious ex or that it means you’re immature if you are not. It’s cool that it works out for some folks. But I don’t think it’s weird when it does not.

Totally understandable. That doesn’t mean events like that don’t move the needle, though. We don’t have broad mental healthcare coverage because a significant portion of the electorate doesn’t demand it, because they don’t think it is necessary.

Sorry, gotta disagree yet again with your all or nothing positioning. As someone with a few family members challenged with mental illness, any reasonable thing done to de-stigmatize and normalize conversations about it is a good thing in my book. Sure, yes, we don’t have enough societal and government institutional…

You are living breathing clickbait. The only reason why you are employed is because your employers know that people regularly come to read whatever you vomit out because it’s so idiotic, immature and deliberately sensational.

William also delayed University by a year. A gap year is quite common before starting University.

Lolwhat? St. Andrews is currently ranked as the #1 university in the UK, last year it was #3 behind Oxford and Cambridge. She’d been accepted to Edinburgh University, currently ranked #12. Taking a gap year before uni is is highly normalized, almost expected, in the UK.

Sorry but what am I missing? It’s a women’s college that admits cis women and trans women and anyone who identifies as a woman. If trans women are women, and trans men are men, then those trans men shouldn’t be admitted to a women’s college any more than cis men should be?

Trans men are men, trans women are women, and also trans men are women apparently? I’ll admit that I’m lost.

The disappointment comes from W having made a big deal (and profiting in terms of goodwill) about how we’re moving forward with more open arms towards trans students only to backtrack a few years later (hasn’t even been 10 years) because the political climate is less friendly. A lot of brave students came forward for…

Perhaps I’m misunderstanding things, but it seems like the term “transphobia” is mostly misplaced here. The issue seems to be what it means to be a women’s college in 2023. Looking at Smith’s policy (my kid will likely apply next fall), they accept all applicants who identify as female, which includes cis women, trans…