One member of the Alqonquin Round Table had an answer for everything:

Being related to a man who shares many behavioral traits with That Asshole, I’m 70% certain that “conversation” in this case involves him sitting at the table bloviating about “issues of the day” for hours on end while she is obliged to tell him how right he is about that thing. Probably while chewing with his mouth…

Love Lindy West’s writing. Her piece on why Love, Actually is a terrible movie is still one of my favorite takedowns of a movie ever written and I guess that means I really should check out Shrill! Anyone else watched it and can recommend?

You also have to consider what got the sober party onto the wagon in the first place.

How to date someone who is sober:

A nation of white, a bottle of red
Perhaps a wall will rose instead
We’ll kick an immigrant near the street
In our old familiar place
You and I, face to face
In our Italian Restaurant

That made me seethe. Perhaps if the cat were made of teak, he would have treated her more gingerly.

I actively dislike cats and even I was like, “what the fuck??”

Yeah I don’t even like cats that much but that’s the moment where I went from “I think I hate him” to “oh yes I for sure hate him.” 

Try Apartment Therapy, they have more realistic houses than AD.

TLDR: “Rich person has beautiful home”. Show me a tour of a one-bedroom apartment that someone has managed to keep organized and beautiful, while using Target and IKEA furniture. That’s information I can use.

“it makes me want to dig a hole in the ground and take a vacation there.”

Is there something with you people that the word “women” is so difficult to say? Does it have some icky connotation so you have to use terminology more commonly used to denote an animal’s gender?

I did it, I married a man with a beard, who I have never seen without a beard. Sometimes I worry, omg what if he shaves it off and I don’t think he’s hot anymore? But honestly, I doubt he will ever shave it off, and I love him, so whatever the outcome, I will still love him. I have seen photos of him from high school…

I’m amused by it. If I spotted someone wearing these shirts out and about, I would assume the guy was super annoying, yet would still appreciate his overly aggressive attempt at normalizing cunnilingus. I mean, we need a narrative to counter one DJ Khaled’s.

Yes, the belly and the navel are used in sexual play.  You know what else is--everything.  Lips, ears, neck, hands....  wearing a burqa won’t make men respect you.

This comment needs more stars. Never met a babcia that wasn’t forcing beets on me.

Babcia, is that you?

“YOU EAT BEET AND YOU LIKE IT, OK?!”

Plenty of white women get routinely mocked for their natural body hair, if you are of Mediterranean/Greek/Italian persuasion. Those particular whites are of northern lineage, who have a mere sprinkle of it. But the rest of their bodies are conveniently smooth. Wow! So edgy!