I think it’s just the ongoing outbreak of NOBODY KNOWS HOW TO FUCKING USE HIGHLIGHTER.

Slate called them “the Ivanka Trump of Newsletters” [...] The Awl called them “Pumpkin Spice Politics” ...

I think the thing that’s different about the Skimm, for better or worse, is that it takes that fluffy tone and applies it to serious news articles. When Cosmo covers, say, rape on campus, it doesn’t use the same tone as it does for the best bikini for the season.

ALL OF THIS! And it’s especially offensive to me as a WOC. Because guess what, you Ivanka clones, my WOC ass and my POC friends and LGBTQ friends and non-rich friends (because like a normal person, 99.99% of my friends aren’t damn rich) don’t have the fucking luxury of “positivity.” Because the political situation is…

come on, gimme a smile

Oh, I find that positivity bullshit to be its own form of aggression. A former friend of mine labeled anything she didn’t like or any critical opinion she didn’t agree with as “negative.” It was such a maddening, disingenuous copout.

“Aggressive positivity” is also a character trait that makes me want to outright strangle the person.

“For now, the women are using their aggressive positivity to float above the negative press”

Chris Christie is Augustus Gloop mixed with Veruca Salt

I made it out of high school before smart phones were a thing (and thank god for that) - I can see why movies from the mid-00s and earlier may not resonate with current teenagers (I mean, Never Been Kissed would be over in 10 minutes if someone had simply Googled Josie Geller).

Mean Girls is still an excellent movie and I have no feelings about Clueless one way or the other. But you’re so right - it’s apples and oranges, there’s been NOTHING like it since.

...I really don’t know how I forgot Mean Girls.

The thought of being in high school these days genuinely makes me scared for my niece and nephew. Kids sucked when I was there. Now they have all these new and interesting ways of expressing their sucking. It’s just a lot to deal with.

I hear tell some of these punks take pictures of their privates and electric message them all over God-knows-where! Next thing ya know, you got the ISIS buying Old St. Pat’s church down by where Jimmy’s bar was before the fire and teaching the Queer-an book.

I have no use for this. High school has become conceptually frightening to me, an old, since the advent of cell phones and social networks. They’re gonna make jokes about liking and tweeting at people and I want none of it.

Even if there was one rape scene a year and it’s relevant as hell, the choreography and care of the crew/performers would still be worthy of attention, no?

This was heartbreaking to watch. That is a woman in the thick of it and she desperately needs help. And not from some quack holistic dr. From a real doctor, trainer, nutritionist, and therapist. I actually really like Shannon. She is a nut, but pretty funny and not mean spirited.

Say what you will about Stassi, but she completely owned her weight gain in a super empowering way. She knows she gained weight, but she doesn’t give a shit, and good for her. (I realize she’s young & gorgeous, but still).

She may have gained weight FROM stress. Stress will make you fat, not because you eat more or drink more, but because stress changes your hormones. She may have gained weight after having been through some kind of physical trauma, because that happens too. It’s not necessarily because she ate too much and drank too…

Her husband’s cheating did not do so much for her mental state. You have made me a fan of Shannon today.