Yes. And apparently New Country fans have forgotten THIS IS OUR BAG. Remember that Reece Witherspoon movie you watched with the singing? Walk the Line? That song was actually written for the wife Johnny was cheating on when he and June got together. People will ask me if I know any good cheating songs and I’m…

Thank you Hazel! At the risk of sounding over-dramatic, I literally cannot stress the impact this record, along with releases from PJ Harvey, had on my younger, midwestern-raised self. Hanging out with the girls who drove the convertible Cabriolets but secretly wanting to tear their faces off, not to mention the…

I can’t even with the sad selfie from Staci Felker. I’ve been cheated on and it’s quite frankly a fucking terrible feeling. However, and not to negate her feelings, taking and posting sad selfie and overlaying it with text about yourself in the third person is fucking weird. 

And wasn’t Blake Shelton also married when he started dating Miranda too? What’s this bullshit about karma, son?

“Black isn’t just a club we can join.”
- Michelle Wolf

So, you rent out an entire amusement park for a Saturday night in April - and then you have a place that’s meant to have tens of thousands of people in it all to yourself and the dozens of employees? So, shops and most restaurants are probably closed, the rides are open, it’s dark out, mostly empty and vast - you…

It wouldn’t surprise me if most of them are outearning their men (Kylie was definitely outearning Tyga when that was a thing).

Michelle Wolf is white, and has talked in interviews about how so many people perceive her to be part Black. I love her joke about being the only person on Earth who looks like both Annies.

It’s interesting to me that the Kardashian-Jenner girls are always doing big, grandiose lavishing things for their men, but their men never do the same for them. The last one I remember was Kanye’s engagement to Kim, but that appears to be the exception to the rule.

It’s been weighing heavily on me, as well. Especially because my oldest kid is getting to the age where the allure of social media and the internet are getting stronger. I want him to understand that when I was 12, the nascent Internet of the early 90’s (mostly alt.groups and BBS’s) was filled with assholes and…

Maybe exposure to as many OTHER kinds of stories as possible as early as possible would help—especially stories that showcase the interior lives of girls.

Yeah it’s bizarre. I know when I’m rejected i blame it on myself not the other person, probably to an unhealthy degree in the other direction.

I hope I’m not butting into this conversation, but as a guy who went through some of this same shitty“I’m a nice guy” crap twenty years ago, I have been thinking a lot about this. It’s a tough conversation. I like to think I would say to twenty-something me that yeah, being rejected sucks, and you have a right to feel…

God, I couldn’t agree more- I was a shy, maladjusted teen and 20-something with some real anger issues that I managed to work through, and these days I consider myself to be a pretty plain, well-adjusted adult. But if I’d had the horrible resources the internet provides people like me today? I have some idea how I…

I used to work with young people, and these days you get training on radicalisation (spotting the warning signs, what to do, etc.) and its all about Radical Islam and White Power organisations, as you would expect. I actually raised this stuff, because I’ve come across it on the internet quite a bit and there was this…

Does the incel community exist to “support”, or to undermine its sad adherents? We don’t know a lot about Alek Minassian. We know he was socially awkward; that he was good with computers; that he enlisted with the Canadian Forces but withdrew, having found the rigours of basic training too much for him; we know he…

Because I never miss a chance to quote John Darnielle:

The incel ideology terrifies me. Because I’ve been that lonely guy, who was unable to date, who was a virgin until his 30s. I had terrible self esteem, and it took a lot of therapy and self improvement to get to a better place in my life. And believe me, there are so many people out there like me, who feel lonely and…

Have folks read Rodger’s manifesto? If not, let me save you the trouble. “There’s a pretty girl, she has a boyfriend, I have to drop this class because I can’t look at them, I ran home and cried all night” - wash, rinse, repeat. THIS is who these guys hold up as a saint? This dishrag? It really boggles the mind. There…