Agree. I have a friend in his 50s who has never felt able to fully come out to his family (although I’m 90% sure they know), and it has ruined every serious relationship he’s ever had. I feel really sad for older people who get mocked for not coming out earlier, when the society they lived in was immeasurably…
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Who would compile these binders? Because most people’s flaws would consist of “I just care too much!”
If you read literature from the twenties through the fifties, you see a LOT of “humorous” complaining about how servants are so lazy and ungrateful, how they won’t do this or that and insist on outrageous luxuries like a radio or a day off. These complaints are usually spouted by chain smoking rich housewives on their…
This reminds me of the Dorothy Parker short story Horsie, where a couple is portrayed as “struggling” because they only have three servants and the bride’s mother is so proud of their independence. “Why, it was all we could do, last spring, to make Camilla take the Packard and the chauffeur.”
that’s awesome — it takes 2 servants to do what many, many single women do! Wait, I have to cook, AND clean, AND take care of the kids?? For shame!
I am also reminded of a story of my grandmother’s house keeping skills. My grandmother also grew up with help, but couldn’t afford it when she was first married. When the house got too messy, she would go into town to avoid it. One time she did this and came home to a clean house. It turns out her mother in law sent…
Have you read David Copperfield? Whenever I think of household servants, I think of poor little hapless Dora.
This brings back so many memories for me. The flurry of cleaning before a party so they didn’t know how we really lived, furniture polish meant special occasions. Ah growing up without help with parents who grew up with help.
That’s because I used to say, “I’m going over to Julie’s,” and then I walked over to Julie’s. If I were a kid right now, my mom would have to phone Julie’s mom and schedule something three weeks out, between flute and tennis, and my mom would take me the quarter of a block to Julie’s and not leave while I had a…
Starred for the Count Ciano reference. Here’s hoping Jared’s keeping detailed diaries like Ciano! Ivanka will have to smuggle them out in her Pucci coat after he falls from grace.
It’s the myth of the Free Market at work. As usual. ‘The market will correct itself’, they say, and then pretend they have no idea just how that will happen. It will happen over the lives and livelihoods of people crushed by any little oopsies that require correction. The market does not give a fuck about human…
Look at him now: “I wanna quit so badly but I can’t because they gonna make even more fun of me”
Let us all rejoice, but do not forget this bill failed, in large part, because IT WASN’T CRUEL ENOUGH to suit the needs of the far-right Freedumb Caucus nutjobs.
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Just a friendly reminder that Hillary was saying all of this before the election and even on TV, but nah, her emails...
The level of smug is nauseating, but probably premature. Because with all the power they have on paper, they can’t get anything right. The longer they go with no legislative achievements, the shorter their future becomes.
By Grabthar’s hammer, what a shithead.
I wish the media would focus more on the Mercer family (the billionaire donors who convinced Trump to hire Conway and Bannon). They make the Koch brothers look positively benign.
So, we’re all making donations in this fool’s name now, right?
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I think I’m a little younger than you are, but probably not by much. I’m in my early 50s. Here’s an interesting (albeit sad, because she wanted to not be dating women) little nugget from the Post story: