I was once walking down the street with my husband as he was telling me about a stand up special he watched the night before. I mentioned to him that I don’t enjoy stand up or find it particularly funny most of the time and a stand up comedian who was also walking down the street turned around, circled back, and tried…

I don’t know, I don’t like the “that’s just how comedy is!” bit very much, either. It’s not that jokes age over time—although they can, as humor styles change over generations. But that’s not really what’s happened with jokes that “age poorly” from the recent past. These are typically jokes that were hateful, and…

Why does Ross, the largest friend, not simply eat the other five?

“ It’s a moo point. Who cares what a cow thinks."

Phoebe was by no means dumb, and one of my favourite things about her was that she was this little seditious voice that pointed out how spoiled everyone else was by their social class, and she reminded the audience of this. She was a friend, but she was capable of taking the approach of, “oh, you’re worried about…

I agree about Joey. Upon first viewing, I always thought his reactions to/pronouncements about things were idiotic. Now, much later, I find myself thinking,”Well, he’s actually right about that...” when he reacts to something.  I think he’s held up the best of all of them.

Phoebe is by far the best Friend, but Joey was pretty solid and incredibly loyal - he kept Monica and Chandler’s relationship secret for MONTHS and they got caught by the rest of their friends (separately) on their own. He provided a place for Rachel and Emma to live out of the goodness of his heart (unlike Ross, who…

I remember identifying with Chandler the most when the show first aired and I was a young high school/college aged dude imagining what my life would be like once I moved to Manhattan.

I imagine it was the swim team’s pictures. 

Evan Hansen’s plot is a lot less problematic than Carousel, which we performed at my high school despite it repeatedly waving off and even romanticizing domestic violence.

Stupid kid does a stupid thing, digs himself ever deeper, is pretty standard dramatic fare. Mother and daughter bonding over the fact that a slap…

I love the argument that because he “gave them a choice” these women should somehow have magically decided saying no wouldn’t impact their careers in any way. Because that’s exactly how it works. You turn a guy down and the next day he just treats you exactly the same way he did the day before.

Also words like this are just another way to put pressure on women to buy new clothes, be fashionable, be the cool girl, be interesting, be more concerned about being likable than what you actually like yourself, don’t be the wrong kind of woman... it’s internalized misogyny of the highest degree.

I’m short too and I LOVE cropped trousers of any kind. Skinny, slouchy, drop crotch, high waisted etc. That being said mid-calf is a terrible crop length. If they aren’t already cropped to about 2 inches above my ankle bones I do it myself. I find it super flattering (Thin ankles! Thin ankles! as Edie Monsoon would…

There’s something deeply unsettling about the fact that Chrissy told her to kill herself over DM. If she had done it exclusively through tweets it would have come off as a distasteful attempt at edgy, attention-seeking, dark humor—but through DM seems like she sincerely meant it, which is vile.

Cheney seems to think she is battling Trumpism alone. But Trumpism is the entirety of the Republican Party. Trump is the natural conclusion of the anti-intellectualism and state sponsored fake news ushered in by Bush and her father. McCain and Palin entrenched it. Trump is simply benefiting from the ground work laid…

The whole “It was just over the clothes! And a couple incidents under the clothes but what’s the big deal?” made me ill. And of course at the same time the girls are being told that somehow they led their own brother “into sin” by existing and being female.

As parents, what you did was show your daughters that some abuse is okay and the abuser’s feelings and life journey and the harmony of the family unit are more important than you and your trauma. A little bit of abuse being okay basically preps them for a lifetime of abuse. Because it’s always going to be “a little…

From Hobby Lobby’s Live-Laugh-Loot collection!

I mean it’s totally relatable to have accidentally purchased a probably ludicrously expensive, and presumably human sized statue for your house and yet have no knowledge of the transaction or its existence. Who hasn’t taken an Ambien and done some light shopping?

I’ve been a thrifter all my life. I’ve noticed a difference in prices. Most stores have a “boutique” section these days and often it’s funny because the higher priced items are really not desirable or in fashion, just brands that used to cost a lot of money.