now we’re all imagining sex with a 60-year-old.

Most women I know eat some red meat. I don’t - and it has nothing to do with being a woman. I had to argue with my parents, and defend my opinion my whole life to not eat red meat. I don’t like it. It feels too dense to digest, I don’t enjoy the flavor so I figure - why eat something I don’t enjoy that is associated…

I completely agree. I have anxiety disorder and creating too much stress or rules around food takes a toll on my mental health. I now refuse to view foods as good or bad and instead just try to have a lot of variety in what I eat. I also refuse to feel bad about eating or not eating something. It took me a long time…

This just seems like a new variety of disordered eating. One of my dear friends is obsessed with being a healthy eater. Everything she puts in her mouth is evaluated for its healthful properties and foods are frequently labeled good or bad, in a moral as well as nutritional sense. There is always a very strong element…

I’m in my first virtual meeting of the pandemic where I had to have my screen on.  Day 1, I put on some makeup and wore real clothes.  Day 2, business uptop, pajamas on the bottom, no makeup. Day 3...fleece, yoga pants, no makeup.  

LOL the one true comment.

Yeah. I thought covid essentially killed off pants. 

Look at these suckers wearing hard pants.

I’m older than both generations too—Gen X but just missed out on being a Boomer (that one was a close, close call). And I find this amusing as all fuck.

I am still vociferously demanding us early 80s folks be recognized as the Oregon Trail Generation, or Reagan Babies, or Children Confused by Myst, or anything but millennial as I honestly have more early life experiences in common with my Gen X sister than I do with folks born 10 years later!

The great thing about cargo shorts is they’re never in style. Thus helping the wearer achieve a zen-like state of permanent dorkitude. Plus plenty of pockets.

I don’t mind the woman-driven-mad-by-societys-expectations vibe they went with, not sure it how it leads to animal cruelty and put off by that...

So your main takeaway from her post is that she writes funny, not that there was some (at the least) creepy shit going on that they had to make a rule like that in the first place? She was like 14 years old.

It’s not shitting on you or people like you to admit that there’s a huge potential for abuse in treating children like property without rights, and to consider whether there are better options - like a formal commitment process - that would allow residential treatment programs to help very troubled children.

I appreciate the fact that this experience helped you. However, when people say something “saved their life” I’m always a bit dubious.
There’s no way of knowing what would have happened to you had you not gone to this school. You may have had some other profound experience that changed your life for the better. You…

This is just awful, I can’t imagine what living like that sort of fear is like.

Jezeus knows I’ve made my share of snarky comments about how stupid and thoughtless people are. But yeah, the fact is we were lied to and abandoned and deliberately set against each other right from the start by the rancid tangerine in the WH for his own purposes. There was no way the online bashing wasn’t going to…

I lived in Park Slope for 5+ years so super familiar with the rich moms there. I don’t know, this just doesn’t work for me as satire. Caitlin Reilly’s satire is more subtle and effective because there are moments where her characters are virtually indistinguishable from the real thing, whether it’s the rich LA mom,…

The voice is way more suburban basic bitch/middle America Evangelical mommy blogger than Brooklyn. She sounds too much like a chipmunk and it’s too much of a caricature to really be effective satire. Also, the rich moms in Park slope live in brownstones so they don’t have doormen. 

That was a really sad read, life is definitely too short for that crap. You make a really good point about us passive folks. Being passive is still an action, and still holds responsibility. It’s good to be reminded of that.