But...but...medjool dates are so YUMMY.

Look, I am not Muslim myself but even I know that Muslim women wear head coverings for all kinds of reasons. Yes, sometimes they face family pressure. Sometimes they don’t. Sometimes they wear it for purely religious reasons. Sometimes they wear it for political reasons. Some find it personally freeing or empowering.…

Man, I wish I had better skin now than at 15. I was one of those people who didn’t get acne till my 20s. On the other hand I think my 15 year old self would be very impressed/ excited by my current wardrobe. She would not be excited that said wardrobe and I are currently back in my parents’ house.

I think my fifteen-year-old self would be downright scandalized by the majority of the stuff I now consider as normal. She was very innocent.

I hate Febreeze. I remember being in a car where someone had sprayed it to cover the smell of weed. I felt like I was inhaling ambiguously scented chemicals with every breath. Definitely prefer the weed smell.

This kind of thing makes me glad I grew up in an area with a really historically working class culture. None of my peers were trying to look rich, even the ones who were. I went to a private school (with tuition maybe 1/3 or 1/4 of the sort you find in, say, New York, but still a private school) and there were like…

Maybe I’m nuts, or looking at the past through rose-colored glasses, but I really loved dances. Like a lot. It’s not even like I was cool or popular or anything, but all the music and the flashing lights and the possibilities that something might happen...yeah, I loved it. I also loved clubbing when I became slightly…

An unknown would be wonderful. I hope that’s exactly what they do.

I hope they do the unexpected and cast a black or Indian girl. I’d love to see the kind of neck-twisting internet arguments that would result from that one.

Now this just sounds like a lot of fear-mongering to me. How much damage can really be done by homemade remedies that isn't already being done by the shit containing god-knows-what that you would buy at a drugstore? After not having success with dermatologist-prescribed topical products and experiencing negative side…

I think we’re all just bad and good at different parts. My younger sister is great at the practical stuff—money, DIY, looking after a house—but still has the gloomy worldview of an angsty teen. I on the other hand am pretty good at the Big Life Wisdom but still incapable of doing my own taxes.

Sometimes I think about the fact that if I have a kid (which likely won’t happen until 2020ish if it happens at all) that kid will be coming of age in the mid 2030s. What the fuck is life going to be like by then? I’ll never be able to relate to that kid, and it scares me.

Oh, I don't know. I wouldn't mind going back for a week. Just long enough to mess with everyone from back then.

This is what I dearly hope I will be able to achieve, if I ever become a parent. Age 13-14 were especially bad for me (bullying, other shit...) and I didn’t tell my parents a thing the entire time. As far as they knew my life at school was wonderful. They are objectively lovely people but my dad is emotionally closed…

My best friend moved away for a year in my teens so there was some pretty epic documentation via handwritten letters (we were both kind of budding hipsters and thought email was totes boring, and this was before Facebook etc) . But other than that, yeah, pretty much been lost to the sands of time.

This. I actually agree that prejudice will never go away, there will always be different groups of people that don’t agree with one another’s values and thus don’t like each other, but racism is more than just prejudice. It’s systematic oppression that destroys lives and if we can’t get rid of that, we’re pretty sad…

Back in college I made the mistake of telling a number of friends that I was into Asian guys. Never have I heard so many obnoxious, ignorant comments about small penises. Ugh, people suck.

This is very interesting. I am just wondering, how do they justify this, officially? Like what reason do they claim for needing a certain percentage of white kids? I am also curious because I have known people involved with med school admissions who say that some admissions committees now actively try to limit the…

She’s on a new TV show about a 40 year old woman who pretends to be 26, playing a character who is pretty much Lizzie McGuire Goes to Work in Publishing.

I’ve known several people who worked as professional models. On the one hand, yes, people who are naturally thin and gorgeous gravitate toward those kinds of looks-oriented occupations. On the other hand, once they in it, there’s pressure to do better than all the other naturally thin, gorgeous people around you, so…