I liked them when I was about 13-17 and an aspiring baby intellectual. All the namedropping worked for me as an adolescent. I aspired to a life where everyone quoted philosophy at each other at dinner.   I remember going out and buying and e.e cummings book because someone quotes him. As an adult, I find the films…

Yeah, ok, maybe he was a weird and borderline criminal obsession with teenage girls but on the other hand you have to admit that his movies are some terrible overwritten bullshit. 

Spirited enthusiasm

Counterpoint: This is a shitty, anti-intellectual, anti-literary hot take. Hats off to anybody out there who is like, “Nope, I am not an entrepreneur, not a web developer, not an app-anything. I am a writer — specifically, a poet.” (And no, I am not a poet. I am a librarian, and thank god for poets.)

I think my favorite ever viral tweet thread was from a girl who’d change the contact name from “Mom” to her name on the phone of any guy who creeped her out before asking for her number. The obvious get being that it was a real ‘you played yourself’ move, in that if they sent a harmless text, they’d get a harmless…

If a spot on my underwear was my only risk then I might share your opinion. Unfortunately, my cycle tends to start heavy so if I didn’t have an app to alert me I might bleed through my clothes before I realized. 

I have no allegiance to Jon Hamm (dude has no lips and no charisma), but asking someone about their genitals is invasive and gross.

“I think Woody went after me because at that first basketball game I turned out to be more interesting and amusing than he thought I’d be...”

All these shithead Internet Tough Feminists, grey and otherwise, telling us how they’d never let themselves get in this situation.

I had to scroll back up & look at him again, b/c that face just immediately leaves my brain synapses. He’s the human embodiment of mashed potatoes without gravy.

Well, that certainly makes it okay for what purports to be a legit news organization to lie about why they brought her to the conference, sure.

I am shocked she’s 48!!! WTF. Rachel looks so good, naturally!

My grandmother had her change of life baby at 48. I got an IUD at 43 after taking Plan B, which made me quite sick. Am 52 and still have my IUD keeping things tidy, to paraphrase Miss Flora Poste.

Yep - my great grandma had a baby at 50. When I got my IUD they told me I might be menopausal by the time it came out and I was like lol no i’ll have another thank you.

You are also more likely to have twins as you age. Constant vigilance!

I know someone who thought she was going through menopause at 52 because her periods had stopped, but it turned out she was pregnant. An unplanned pregnancy is less likely at that age, but it’s still a possibility. 

my grandmother had her last child at 48. i’m nearing 55 and am still menstruating (pray for me).

Yeah, I got accidentally knocked up at 47. (We didn’t go through with it for many reasons, including being old ...)

Menopause, baby: It doesn’t happen on anyone’s terms. My mom had intermittent periods into her late 50s. The only way to predict these things is to ask your uterus-housing biological predecessors about their personal menstrual histories; I know my maternal grandmother went through menopause very late as well.

One grandmother had a child at 42. The other grandmother had a child at 47.