Teen Vogue was my teen bible and I was really impressed with the direction it started to focus on in the past five years or so. I feel like Anna Wintour and the culture at Condé Nast are just dragging it down. McCammond needed to go, but more importantly, she shouldn’t have been chosen in the first place. It also is…

I work with clientele who almost all have dementia and some have Alzheimer’s specifically. The age range starts in the mid-60s for my current caseload. I also had a family member who recently passed away following an intense bout with LB dementia. It’s really tough to come to terms with. I see that in my client’s…

There are absolutely ways to set boundaries with people without cutting a person out of your life. The LMSW Minaa B. @minaa_b on Instagram posts a lot of helpful infographics of being assertive and setting boundaries. Sometimes difficulty around people like this friend are as much about your own issues with boundaries…

I’m so sorry you had to deal with that shitty behavior. I’m also happy for you that you saw through it and came out the other side!

Seriously. I worked at a summer camp as a teen that was all about the classic camp things: archery, swimming, hiking, and keeping your bunk spotless for inspection. I cannot tell you how many times the director emphasized that under no circumstances were the children to unclog or clean the toilets. It was simply off…

Clearly these teachers don’t understand what the fecal-oral disease route is. I really hope this kid high-fived his teacher when he was done.

I always want to be like, ‘OMG, is someone being hurt by this? No? Then your opinion is irrelevant!’

Mostly. But I do have a few millenial friends who are queer who will smirk and side-eye people who were once in a heterosexual relationship end up in a queer one or vice versa. It’s so judgmental and unnecessary.

Yes, Niecy! Normalize sexuality as a spectrum that can shift throughout life! There’s nothing to squash beautiful love like people who may think they are *woke* acting like sexuality is a linear progression.

Given that it was a secret wedding in pre-pandemic times and they live in NYC, I have a feeling part of the outfit choices were motivated by the fact that if she puts her veil in her bag, no one would ever guess they were getting married.

This made me LOL because boundaries has been *the theme* of my life the past couple of months due to toxic people totally exploiting my caring side. 100% with you on that. I feel like this whole thread is basically me venting about the selfish people in my life and how they talk about the need to procreate.

I would also add that it is very culturally specific. There are plenty of cultures in the world where putting one’s parents first is just as important as putting one’s kids first.

The thing is that I don’t have a kid and there is still a laundry list of people for whom I would literally take a bullet, move across the country, lose sleep, sacrifice my health and well-being, etc. Maybe I’m a freakishly empathic and caring anomaly, but I’d really like to think that I’m not. I think a lot of…

I love every baby I have ever met and want to meet more. I also really worry about friends who are planning on having kids because it’s an opportunity to “really care about someone other than yourself.” Like, if you don’t do that pre-kid, I’m not sure you should be charge of raising a human. Also, makes me rethink the…

I’m curious where you get your data about who is in “the majority” regarding pandemic behavior.

I wasn’t disagreeing - I was adding.

I agree that psychologically humans don’t want to be isolated from one another, but I would also say that human psychology should not necessarily be guide for how we choose to do things. There’s a lot of maladaptive stuff that’s part of human psychology that we’re constantly in the process of unlearning in order to be…

It really is incredible that the concept of a 14-day incubation period doesn’t click for so many. Also maybe not surprising given that we’ve become so used to instant gratification.

So...I’ll say what I say to men on the street, on the train, at work, who have a problem with what my face looks like when I am just minding my own business, getting the job done, maybe navigating a situation that’s actually really challenging for me (which is my and my business alone), and sometimes simply relaxing:…

The scariest thing to ever happen in women’s bathrooms is when you’re in middle school and you need to poop but you know there’s a group of mean girls washing their hands and you can’t be 100% sure that the poop is gonna be silent and you consider putting your feet up so they can’t identify you.