Thanks, y’all.  My uncle is dead because other people decided to be selfish and greedy.  You are the reasons we will have at least some lockdown measures for the rest of the year.  Everyone who ignores the rules extends the rules.  Go to hell.

And I needed for someone to touch my body after having not even have received so much as a hug for over 6 weeks.... Most of my friends were quarantined with partners; they receive touch every single day and have a shoulder to cry on. I was happy for them, and also felt resentful for any judgment that could have come…

Non Top Gun related but related to the article: I’m actually a Gen-X person who loathes Ferris Bueller. 

And I’m sure the children starving in Yemen or a depressed person in a country too poor for any kind of social provisions envy YOU despite your struggles. There is always someone better off, and someone worse off, and neither is an excuse for lack of empathy. You don’t have to have empathy. That’s on you. But at least…

She didn’t say depression is beautiful. She said she’s learned to find her own depression beautiful. Depression is different for everyone; I don’t see the harm in her trying to see the positive side of her mental illness.

I don’t know her depression, or your depression - I barely understand mine most days - but if that’s how she comes to grips with her experience, she should be allowed to speak to it.  She isn’t making a sweeping statement about Depression, just her own experience.

Imagine expressing how you have learned to cope with your mental health, only to be told you’re wrong because it might not be relatable for everyone.

Cosigned.

The tone of dirtbag shifts so much. Lauren and Garrett’s are fun, cheeky, and poke at celebs. Joan just comes across as bitter and angry. To each their own, but their less fun to read. 

Counterpoint: Having masks become fashionable would be a great way to lead people to be safe and protect others while outside using a carrot rather than a stick.

Of course she wants people to pay for her work. I know on Jez snarks got to snark but y’all have some odd things to be snarky about. 

Wow... I guess fuck Betty White then?

Jane Goodall is actually on my short list of people I DO want to hear from on Earth Day.  She’s far more qualified to speak on it than anyone writing on this site.  So typical of you to make randomly negative comments like this without backing it up.

“Underslept and in a shitty mood” may as well be our new national motto.

It’s good to be wrong sometimes, so I’ll take the L.

I've wondered this myself because I'm also an editor and could really use some work right now.  It's not to say I never make mistakes...but there should be a couple people proofing these and there clearly isn't.

I never liked this idea from the start because it basically says that all those teachers we need to appreciate and give our gratitude to are women.

Emily admitted she calculated wrong, and fixed it. But saying the error was “pretty obviously being used in an unmistakeably hyperbolic way to make a point” (when that clearly was not the case) is some Trumpian-level justification right there.

Cardi B is now the patron saint of good covid-19 responses, because she’s partnering with Fashion Nova to give away $1,000 every hour until May 20—a sum totaling a million dollars.

I totally watch the baking and hair cut videos because they’re teaching me how to do something I don’t know how to do when things are closed. I find those things different because they’re not telling me about suffering from a first-world hardship.