The idea that the real end game is the (predictably misogynist and vitriolic) reaction and what that means is an interesting one, and one that helps me to make better sense of the piece (so, thanks girl!). I was initially pretty perplexed by the statement

Yeah, I was confused by the “if you watch this without my consent” statement, as well as her inference that if you view what happened on the video as sexual assault, you yourself are complicit in her victimization. Firstly, there’s no “ask Emma if you can watch” button, so surely the act of posting the video herself…

Yeah, that's a good point. Most days I’m thrilled to have inherited my father’s unsettling physical strength and height (I can move that couch by myself, thanks). The strong jaw less so, but you play the hand you’re dealt!

I did an online class, with weekly assignments and videochats. It was actually really great! Way better than having my Mom try to teach me and just marvel at how incompetent I am at everything. Also, the fact that I am pregnant and cannot actually have all the wine right now is probably a big contributor to me (very…

That makes me feel better. Thank you.

Yeessssss. My mother is a petite, exquisite woman with the kind of genuinely effortless style and grace that make people compulsively compare her to Audrey Hepburn. I look a great deal like my six and a half foot tall fridge of a father, or possibly like someone put an (admittedly gorgeous and glossy) wig on Jim…

Amazing how quickly “fuck the patriarchy” turned into “Fuck this Singer sewing machine piece of shit why won’t you just surge dammit” in our house, too. I'm making a Pingu suit for my son, and if (as will inevitably happen) he tells me at some point before Hallowe'en that he now wants to be something else, I will cry…

Yeah, she’s legitimately gorgeous even in no makeup and sad sack beige scrubs, but she has one of those faces that changes dramatically when made up. The dramatic eyes and the intense “come hither” look had me wondering if Toni Braxton circa 1999 had joined the cast. #season4dreamboard

I remember a friend of mine recalling sleeping with a guy who had clearly watched a lot of porn, but probably not had a lot of real life sex. I can’t recall the full list of very athletic and somewhat physics defying things he attempted, but I do recall that she had to tell him at one point “my vagina is not…

Thanks for this - I like my job so I didn’t want to google, but it’s great to read such a well written piece about her recovery. Inspiring and infuriating in equal parts - her resilience and determination on the one hand, and Team War Machine’s treatment of her on the other. The part where his lawyer was talking about…

I saw him out on a run in Vancouver (we were both running) just after Friday Night Lights ended. As my brain was like "oh shit, be cool" I definitely fucking tripped over my own feet and almost wiped out on the path in front of him, exactly like something out of a bad high school movie/my nightmares. He was so pretty…

This is one of those moments where you realize that someone who is massively successful, incredibly famous and also seems really chill also has the time to be better than you at literally everything else, too. She sewed that herself? Seriously? It's taken me about 6 months to make a basic as hell Hallowe'en costume…

For real, Vicky Jeudy. She's the only one I didn't instantly recognize on this cover, possibly because Janae never really gets to be fancy, even in her flashbacks. But... damn.

To my knowledge, my country doesn't really do school cafeterias or free/reduced lunches (although there are breakfast programs at some schools) or at least not on the scale of the States. That sai

She’s a badass for sure. But in a way, it’s incredibly sad that she’s gotten to a place where she consistently thinks of and speaks of her daughter as a plague she unwittingly unleashed on our family, and on humanity more generally (phrasing that comes up a lot around Passover). Don’t get me wrong, my cousin is most…

I hope so. Good on your man for laying the groundwork. At the very least it seems like she has some respect and good will towards you (and you towards her as well), so if personality and history have conditioned you to expect some fireworks, you know it doesn't truly reflect animosity towards you on a deeper level. In…

This is a really genuine “celebs, they’re just like us!” thing for my family. Parents can be normal, stable, and generally considered to be good, chill peeps... and still produce a Chet Haze, or in our case, my cousin, a black hole of swirling narcissism from which no light can escape. Quote from my aunt: “Poor Tom…

That’s an awful situation - from a purely empirical perspective, you have a right to get married and not hear too much shit from anyone about it. From a more humane perspective, though, it's hard not to feel sympathy for her situation and want to spare her every hurt possible, even if the hurt in question is likely to…

His poor girlfriend/fiancée/wife-lady. I can imagine few things worse than being married to a douchey control freak, but one of them might be “being married to a douche control freak who only wanted to marry to prove some twisted point to the person he was married to before you." Yuck. Sorry you have to co-parent with…

My godson gave me a dope necklace made of legos and twist ties once! He most definitely has high-functioning Aspergers, though. Maybe I do too, since I wore the shit out of that necklace...