Same re: feeling too old. I keep coming back mostly for the comments. The smugness and snark just makes me tired. And the lack of perspective and self-awareness. Just everything really.

Every time Jezebel posts some scathing critique of Lena Dunham or someone like her, particularly when race discussions are involved, I find myself having this vaguely grossed-out “team no one” feeling. Sometimes it’s like the intersectional feminist community has become a form of new Puritanism where everyone is…

Liquid soap can eff off. I use bar soap for the sink AND the shower. But that’s because I’m from a backward part of Canada where a “loofah” wasn’t what you used to wash yourself, it was the name of one of the deadly, hairy predators that lurked in the woods outside our family igloo.

This would be a great idea, except that my dad doesn’t watch movies, he watches golf.

Ugh, I wish people would stop being so self-righteous about their diets, on both sides of the spectrum. I follow a restrictive diet for reasons that are very specific to my own body and health. Anyone who tries to tell me that I’m not eating enough of certain foods to be healthy/ happy, or eating too much of other…

The happiest ones I know are either way old money or have parents who built wealth while they were growing up.

I think the cultural image of certain US cities has become so larger-than-life and romanticized that people think they’re taking place in something great and poetic just by living there. News: just because many romantic movies are set in a place doesn’t mean your life is beautifully romantic and worthy of public…

I do get what you’re saying. I think there may be more than one way to see it.

I’m surprised people are reacting so positively to that line. To me it was the only part of the trailer I disliked. I am wondering, why can’t we just have strong female characters without having to be TOLD how strong and independent they are? It feels unnatural and IMO it is actually regressive, now that we’ve had…

I loved the Cleopatra one so hard. I still remember being shocked when I read the part where her sister pulled a knife on her because she wanted a piece of silk that Cleopatra had just unwrapped. It made my fights with my sisters looks so tame in comparison.

Yes. And I think Veronica Roth pulled that explanation from her ass after backlash about the series’ premise being unrealistic in terms of how it applied to regular humans. She also threw in some themes about class struggle in book 3 out of nowhere, which I assume was a response to backlash about the series being…

I am no expert on this, but I kind of doubt a few parents volunteering are going to vastly improve a school when the system in which that school operates is broken. I don’t blame parents for keeping their kids out of school. It’s not just the educational aspect, plenty of schools have fairly toxic student cultures.

I agree, she does. I think because I’m closer to 30 I’m just feeling slightly too old for her particular brand of “beautiful boys with frequently-mentioned pretty eyes that darken when they are brooding” and whatnot. But I will give her this: she has an actual writing style. It might not be technically ‘good’ at all…

I remember trying to read it when I was like...21. Or something. My tastes were NOT refined not mature. I was an obsessive fan of Cassandra Clare. But I couldn’t even get through a few chapters of Twilight. I had the realization of “this author abides by the fourth grade writing rule of ‘use literally any other word…

She’s not a mean girl, this isn’t high school. She’s a shrewd businesswoman and yes, of course she manipulates and tells the truth only when it suits her image, that’s what famous people do to control their image and stay relevant. I enjoy (some of) her music but anyone who thinks she’s a sweet, normal girl who just…

I find it crazy (but not surprising) that someone could unironically write that about the British Empire (!) Yes Toronto is by some measures the most multicultural city in the world, but racism exists everywhere. I’ve lived there...it may be multicultural but it still has a very entrenched white upper class whose…

That’s interesting. I don’t know much about her really - what has she said?

True. I honestly thought this article was going to be about how millennials don’t shake hands as often. I never initiate handshakes. I’ll do it if someone else wants to, but I’ll also wait for them to let me know that (and usually that person is older).

Agreed. I’d love to see a post about Saga around these parts, I think it has many Jez-relevant themes (just recently read this great article that helped me get a better understanding of it too)

This is why I always hate all the comments on such articles talking about how “moving away from your problems” is privileged, offensive, frivolous and any number of other awful things. I’m not denying that moving to a new place requires resources, but there are shades of grey here. I am in my late 20s, have suffered…