I had a guy at work tell me that (which was weird, but whatever). The next day I didn’t wear makeup because I came from the gym and forgot my cosmetics bag, and that same guy was like “Are you sick? You look tired.”

This stunned me. I have worked in literacy programs with kind, wonderful, strong (and very shamed) adults. They simply have a hard time reading (for myriad reasons), and some of the compensations they have developed are beyond genius.

two seconds into orchard house had me all welled up. i am once again a ten year old, longing to be jo and hating amy with every bit of my soul.

I just want to see her Mama’s church hat, Meghan’s wedding gown and to have Serena be a bridesmaid. Is that too much to ask?

I used to know Clarence House, worked down at the liquor store on 79th and St. Claire. until he got busted for letting people buy Cisco with food stamps.

One of my 10th graders walked into my room this morning, beaming. “We’re gonna have a Black princess, y’all!”

“See, I TOLD YOU there could be a princess Meghan!” - the moms of all of us who ended up with an 80s fad name.

I JUST CAME HERE TO TALK ABOUT HARRY AND MEGHAN BUT NO ONE IS UP. GET UP. DON’T YOU HAVE SPECIAL ALARMS FOR THIS SORT OF THING???

LW1, you have one problem and one situation that isn’t your problem.

Regular Jane replies:

Letter Writer #1:

Actually pretty solid advice.

Many of us have enjoyed the downfall of people we didn’t like to begin with. We all better brace for the downfall of many people we love. Skeletons are about to be everywhere.

All women, at some point, are also complicit in the patriarchy. Because, ya know, you get tired; it’s Monday; it’s easier to laugh a sexist joke off than go toe to toe with some misogynist jack off whose mind isn’t going to change; because you’re going to get laughed at if you stick up for women; because it’s your…

If Anna Merlan knew, I can guaran-fucking-tee you Sarah Silverman knew.

Whatever, you guys still have Max on board! He’ll be able document everything with his tiny camera even though there is a fullblown camera crew right the fuck there.

1. “Don’t know who she is” - yeah right.

On the subject of annoying MLMs: my sister’s sister-in-law added me to a Facebook group where she’s selling “organic makeup and skincare.” She did this because I work at a Fancy Cosmetics Store whose theme is black and white, and she thought I might be interested in “getting out of a business that puts chemicals into…

If you can only buy the product through a “consultant,” then it’s probably a pyramid scheme.

So much empty skin around such a small face