I said to another commenter that it was actually kind of a freeing moment, realizing that it wasn’t worth my time to care about her opinion. Plus, I found out later that other family members took her to task, so finding out that they were really in my corner was a good moment. But yeah...ugh.

I’m sorry. Hugs of solidarity. You’re beautiful and accomplished.

YES. Glad I’m not the only one who did this.

The first romance novel I ever read was one of these. All I remember is that Fabio (I mean, not actually him in the novel, but it’s him on the cover) fingers the heroine while riding on his futuristic beast of burden, and seeing the cover and thinking the heroine was all “FABIO YOU’RE SQUISHING MEEEE.” Behold:

She actually is very intelligent and college-educated, but has a lot of insecurity about her own looks and projects it onto all the women in her family. When she said that, it was actually kind of freeing - she’d said similar things my whole life, and at that point it was like “Welp, there is nothing I can do to…

“If you just lost some weight, I could actually be proud of you” - My grandmother to me, immediately after I graduated with honors from one of the top three universities in the country.

Awesome! My mom was just asking me if there was a subscription box I’d like to get my daughter.

The problem was that I knew pretty early on what went where, but had NO IDEA that there was, you know, movement involved for a long time. Until I found my mom’s stash of romance novels, probably.

I can’t stop seeing the...not symmetry, concordance? between her chin and her cleavage here. I mean, still gorgeous.

We had this American Medical Association encyclopedia that had an illustration of intercourse, but like...a dissection? It was a drawing, but of a straight couple doing it missionary style, but cut in half. Anyway, so I knew from pretty early on that the penis went in the vagina, but was kind of vague about how it…

It’s exactly the same with childcare (an even more fraught form of house work).

That is fascinating and gross (and doesn’t surprise me at all given what I remember of DGR).

The only ghost I’ve ever seen (and I am a ghost skeptic, so admitting that I saw it means I am 100% sure about it) was a cat ghost. When I moved to town, I rented an apartment that had a cat already there (the previous tenant had basically abandoned half of her stuff there including a kitten) and since I knew no one…

Ahhhhh how could I forget Father Ted! Feck!

I’ve actually only seen him in Black Books and Shaun of the Dead but I just adore him.

Yeah, as far as I remember he wrote (or co-wrote with Dylan Moran and possibly others) almost all of the episodes.

Yes! Graham Linehan, not just awesome for writing Black Books!

I was about to protest that my mom did an excellent job of driving on our first visit to the UK, but then I remembered the time she went the wrong way around a roundabout - twice - in a row - but it was on Orkney so the only oncoming traffic was a bunch of ducks.

It’s cute! I love a good wordplay!

Great minds and all that! Love your username btw (assuming it’s a play on Londonderry somehow? Anyway, funny).