I never got catcalled until I was 28 (and it seriously f-ed with my head when I got warned time and time again before studying abroad in a French city that all young women in urban France get catcalled, 100%... and found it not to be the case). My theory is that I’m average looking and abnormally tall, & the two…

I think most of it’s numbers - the more people in politics, the more stupid crazies you can find.

Ah but here’s the question - has her home ever been actually private and *not* a performative space for her? Does she still wear heels if *no one*, not even her son, will see her for an entire day? She may be an exception that proves the rule even more forcefully

Sometimes tall women have a lot to unpack - I’m 5'10/11" ish and got comments from guys when I was younger that made me self-conscious about my height and size... I rarely wore heels until I got into the workforce and realized I was more memorable in heels to people in power who aren’t used to women taller than 6'.

I’m gonna stay irked that she announced them as “Sir Carter & Rumi”. Why doesn’t Rumi also get looped in with the Carter name? Not “Sir & Rumi Carter”, or god forbid “Rumi & Sir Carter”...

It’s less not liking the voice and more hearing it as disdain, personally

It’s about a minute in:

She has done the women be crazy schtick though - I had to turn off one of her specials because she leaned so hard into her white woman dolphin voice, & I just couldn’t

I give wedding and event planners a LOT of credit for project management and think they have transferrable skills that would make them assets in a lot of roles....

Sending you a virtual hug. I’m two months out now and a zombie at work. This piece was beautiful to me.

My mom died a month and a half ago... cancer, too. I just spent the last weekend with family swapping stories about her and celebrating the love we still feel. That and mother’s day with my dad = both shitty and wonderful, you know?

You’re better off skipping brunch on mother’s day since, as my own mom used to say, they rip you off :) so you benefit on two counts I guess

When my mom died, my dad’s friends texted a week later to say they were on their way over to drop off food, so he had warning to get dressed/warn them if it was a bad time. They even kept their jackets on when they got there so my dad wouldn’t feel pressured to host them, & they left after about half an hour.

I felt the urge to like your post in lieu of a virtual hug

That’s so lovely. I just lost my mom earlier this year and am moving in with my boyfriend in a couple weeks... I’ve been weighing ways to bring my mom into the new home since she won’t be around to give me small but useful household items I never thought to buy and only realized I needed after bringing them home. A…

Because the difference might be the only plan offered by my company, that includes nothing, charges me more because I’m a woman, etc, and leaves me struggling with medical debt, or paying thousands of dollars a month for a plan that’s actually useful, but leaves me homeless, bankrupt, and still racking up medical debt.

There’s a part of me saying “yes!” And the other pessimistic part is thinking “what if the lesson they learn is just to carve out exceptions for babies?”

We did have an interesting conversation about whether the original work was predictive, or if society cycled back to what fueled the book’s fears

His anger was more towards executives capitalizing on post-election anxiety than on the show runners/creatives behind it, but if his pre-empted anger fuels yours, ok.

I was watching with my boyfriend and at one point noticed he was looking something up on his phone - he let out a deflated sigh. “What?” “I was looking up what point after the election they started making this, and now I can’t get angry.”