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Thank you for this wonderfully written (and very important) reminder that often, just surviving is one of the most radical things a woman can do, and often requires more bravery and strength than anyone else may ever recognize. It seems to be one of the most easily forgotten/rarely acknowledged/hardly known in the…

Oh, for the love of GOD. I don’t follow this idiot, I can’t imagine ever wanting to, and I’d only ever heard of him after the suicide victim video, but this just makes that somehow 100x worse. This kind of behavior would be unacceptable anywhere, but respect and politeness are huge parts of the entire Japanese culture…

which is, coincidentally, the exact percentage of Jeff Sessions’s brain that is limited to cartoon replays of two southern gentlemen slapping each other with gloves.

Yeah, I’ve always given an immediate and extremely strong side-eye (if not a full on rant) at anyone who tried to come at me with that. (I feel similarly, albeit not quite as strongly, about Richard Kerns’ crap.)

Did this ever even really fool anyone, though? Speaking as a photographer of 25+ years, I never, ever bought it. He’s always set off my creep meter (to a huge degree), immediately.

Yup! I fully expect exactly that (it’s a huge part of what made S10 so wildly uneven). And I had completely forgotten that happened, but you’re right! I also can’t recall for the life of me what the show was supposed to be called, but I definitely remember not being at all surprised that it didn’t survive past the…

Thank you for that! I’m not normally a huge fan of chili, but sweet potato chili sounds really good, actually. And I hadn’t even thought of using it just to reheat stuff, but that’s a great idea!

I never much liked, nor connected with any of the characters on, Fringe at all, so I’ll have to disagree with you there.

I’m not saying Man of the Woods is Lemonade, but it definitely seems like Timberlake’s attempt at it.

No one ever talks about this enough, but I have also noticed this! I’ve started taking it as a sort of, “If we have to be miserable, so do all the rest of you!” sort of thing, which is deeply sad, though not entirely surprising.

The fact that the instagram post featured in this article uses the word “vintage” unironically to refer to a goddamn scrunchie is slowly killing me.

it sounds like maybe he doesn’t 100 percent have a handle on the specific vibe of the current moment any more than the rest of us

It’s been a big relief to me (and also kind of fascinating, from a historical/cultural perspective) seeing society gradually shifting away from marriage, at least in America. I’d argue it’s a pretty unnecessary burden for the majority of couples, not the minority. (I may be a bit biased in that I’ve been witness to…

As true as this likely is, it’s not like I (nor any of the rest of us here who feel the same) aren’t already aware of this.

Man, do I wish I could stay with you on #4. But I’m stuck in situations where I can occasionally get other benefits out of a situation, but absolutely no dick. And... that is a benefit I miss, dammit. I would be fine with having that back.

I’m glad my post was able to cheer you a bit, despite us coming from pretty different perspectives (just based on gender alone). And I agree, often self-improvement efforts, while definitely important and necessary (and often helpful), can feel the way you describe. It’s a fine line to walk, and maybe we just don’t…

Haha yes, it absolutely does. But thank you. (While yes, often bringing out the best, and the worst in me.) Thank you for the luck, and the lovely comment.

I’m glad you got lucky! Particularly since you can recognize it. I think it’s often the people who don’t recognize how much luck is involved in ever finding any “right” person that love to crow those platitudes we’re all so tired of, which may be well-intentioned, but in reality are just alienating us all further, and…

Wow, I honestly had no idea that people would have such a response to what I wrote! I just sort of... word-vomited it out in a moment of vulnerability, right after reading this post. But again, as with the others here who have said as much, I’m glad to know I’m not as alone in these thoughts as I usually feel. It…