Love how her only explanation for her own incompetence is literally that the world is ending. Like, Michelle, honey, that’s not the reason you can’t keep up with your briefings.

Yeah, that's kind of a major detail to leave out.

I need to watch the scene again. I took her comment to be real and thought “whoa! Clunky and out of character!”

It’s optional. It is an optional feature. As a woman on Twitter who frequently tweets about feminism, my option will be not to turn it on, but I don’t understand why it’s a problem if other people choose to use a feature that’s made available.

It’s an opt-in, though. If you don’t want randos DMing you, just don’t enable the feature (I will not be).

Let me restate. I feel very very strongly that it was sarcasm. She was pointing out, in a very “Joan” manner, that her only option (by his standard) to be with him was absurd. Joan’s defense mechanisms come off pretty surly sometimes.

She wasn’t serious. I too was shocked, but when I watched the second time you can see she’s saying that just to mock his desire to live more freely.

Sally is going to be a Springsteen fan.

I’m pretty damn sure Joan was not ready to drop her kid at the request of that dude. She said it with the same tone she uses to dress down others. Sheesh. Does she wish she were free to go do all that stuff? Sure, who wouldn’t want that? Still, that’s not the reality and she (and we) knows it.

Thrift stores?

Gotta disagree on Joan. Yes, she’s feeling pulled in different directions; yes, she’s resentful that her life isn’t as footloose and fancy free as is demonstrated by her fling. But she’d NEVER give Kevin away. That whole scene was pure sarcasm, her underlining to Richard exactly what came out of his mouth, no matter…

I read Joan's statement about her son as sarcasm—but this is the second place I've seen a writer describe it as genuine. I'd love to hear what others thought!

I thought so too. Like if he had said “Yes, great!” she would have reamed him out.

I think she was. I had to watch the episode twice to get it, though. She was using sarcasm so that Tan Old Dude would see how ridiculous he was being.

Joan was being sarcastic when she said she would abandon her son. At least I took it that way.

It was also odd that she was contrasted against beyonce, since I haven't heard beyonce go into much detail about anything related to feminism

if you want to spend your trip washing underpants...

If you're at risk of underwear shortage on a trip, a ziploc full of liner pads can help you be a little less gross. Not completely un-gross, mind you, but less.

Fuck off, Lee Radziwill. Fuck right off.

I would content myself with boring celebrities if only pop culture would work in more Greek myth references.