Gossip Girl, The Vampire Diaries, Dawson’s Creek, The OC, Pretty Little Liars, I also have strong opinions on fictional shows that mean absolutely nothing in the world. We all need a place of mind-numbing solace.
My best friend and I have a deep emotional connection to Gossip Girl. In all it’s terribleness, it’s somehow still awesome.
also yes this is a fictional show and i may be too invested. you should hear me talk about “gossip girl”.
My blood boils over that shit. Lmao like having a vagina doesn’t mean I have some magical knowledge on how to scrub a tub or a toilet. It’s pretty simple. It is dirty, I spray it with cleaner and I rub it until it appears clean. The end. Repeat forever until I die.
I curse how little my husband knows about keeping a house neat and clean on a regular basis. He really does work hard (he does the bulk of the cooking and grocery shopping, for instance) but there is SO MUCH that he either doesn’t know to do or doesn’t know how to do and it makes me angry that we live in a culture…
“Yet still we have to ask nicely even when we’ve already asked twice, we have to be strategic in the way we frame our requests so as not to spook them, we have to modulate our tones so as not to seem angry even when we are angry. This is absolutely how reality works in most heterosexual domestic arrangements, and it’s…
Let me tell you something. My fucker of a husband (love the man but holy shit) and I don’t have kids and we battle this out. We both work extremely demanding jobs and work crazy hours. But I still find time to do all the shopping, chores and dog care (we have 3 dogs). I ask that fucker to put the toilet seat down and…
Yet still we have to ask nicely even when we’ve already asked twice, we have to be strategic in the way we frame our requests so as not to spook them, we have to modulate our tones so as not to seem angry even when we are angry.
including a renowned zero-bullshit couple’s therapist and a former international hostage negotiator for the FBI
“The difference today is that men are now more frequently socialized to pay lip-service to household equality. Our culture rewards them for sharing housework and childcare. Yet still we have to ask nicely even when we’ve already asked twice, we have to be strategic in the way we frame our requests so as not to spook…
“...it also falls on women to patiently and strategically negotiate the terms of our liberation.” STILL. EVERLASTINGLY.
How Not to Hate Your Husband is a book for messy reality, but I can’t shake my frustration that its twin, written for men, isn’t out there somewhere: How to Keep Your Wife From Hating You After Kids.
“Tom, despite good intentions and a warm personality, left almost all of the household management and childcare to Dunn, and her resentment became explosive.”
How Not to Hate Your Husband
Today is the day that I realized I’m one of the few people that enjoys trips to the grocery store.
I appreciate your admonition to “be aware of your surrounding when you shop,” but I find that either headphones create an induced state of obliviousness or there is a correlation between people wearing headphones and being generally oblivious. Either way, my experience is that there is a disproportionate number of…
Don’t be so mean to LaGuardia. For a fee they will suck your bird into the intake of a jet engine or release your family dog on the Grand Central Parkway.
Sisterhood of the traveling pants? Idina has just started, produced and directed Traveling Panties, and I bet it took a lot less time and money to release it. Cast was substantially smaller too.
This is yet another reminder that having a child does not suddenly make you an expert on literally anything, and that the act of birth is something that literally billions upon billions of people around the world, both very smart and incredibly fucking dumb, have done throughout millenia.