Oh man, this resonates! I started dating someone who is extremely stable and reliable, and it feels good. Very comfortable and steady. Last night, I pulled out some old journals from my college years and I wrote extensively (cough, obsessively) about my boyfriend from that era...and it was pure chaos and insanity. It…

I was on the way to my students’ graduation (high school teacher) and I got a text from my mom just saying “Anthony Bourdain?! I can’t believe it!” and at first I thought “oh no, it must have come out that he’s sexually harassed women not him too” but then I googled and saw the terrible news. I am really shattered by…

As a native Floridian, I feel that I must read this book. Also, she’ll be speaking in my town on Monday, so this gave me the encouragement to go see her!

Hey! I’m 26, just a couple years older, but wanted to just chime in and tell you to hang in there, and that everything is going to work out. My early 20s were surprisingly difficult, and while I had some boyfriends, none of them were really serious material (never brought them to family gatherings, withheld details…

Insightful comment. Lately I’ve been thinking about this a lot, and I feel like the reason being single sucks is because society has made it suck. I told my mom the other day how conflicted I feel because on the one hand, I’m happy with my life and not super lonely, but on the other hand, I am CONSTANTLY inundated…

This is actually super insightful and as I was reading your comment I realized I totally am in the same boat! I started dating someone recently and its going in a serious relationship direction, but I was single for a while as everyone else paired off. But I was always extremely confident, financially independent, and…

I’m assuming children wouldn’t be watching The Deuce anyway. Are you lost?

I REMEMBER THAT.

Are we the same person? I love Gilmore Girls and I’ve been a hardcore Ty Segall fan since 2009. He’s an absolutely incredible musician, a rare talent. I HIGHLY recommend listening to Marc Maron’s WTF Podcast with Ty Segall. Maron totally nerds out over Ty and its glorious.

I wanted to be a music journalist, so I started off as a journalism major in college. I didn’t really like it so I switched to history during my Spring semester of freshmen year. A year later I decided to add an education minor and be a high school teacher. I am now a happy high school teacher. But I didn’t know for…

Because now that transgendered people are getting attention and people are starting to talk about gender being a construct we need to remind everyone that PENISES=BOY AND VAGINAS=GIRL AND THE WORLD WILL STOP TURNING IF WE DON’T FIT INSIDE THOSE BOXES.

That whole thing was bizarre. I actually hate Stassi and think she is a terrible person, but I found myself feeling BAD for her watching that last night. Good god.

Me too. My self esteem was lower than dirt in high school. I eventually worked through it and have had great, fulfilling relationships, but it definitely took a toll on my self image and self worth.

Exactly! This is what I can’t get over. I was conventionally ugly in middle and high school, and I dealt with sooo much rejection and so many comments from boys about how they weren’t interested precisely because of how ugly I was. Of course it hurt and badly damaged my self-esteem, but I never blamed boys or men and…

I’ve had the same thoughts you just outlined ever since the van incident. I think these “incels” (its hard to say that seriously) definitely have some sort of personality issue because soooo many people deal with rejection or periods of “involuntary celibacy” but they don’t turn to this radical community. Because…

I am going to watch the shit out of this.

I definitely see your point, and I agree. I guess I was coming at it from the perspective of Beyonce being a generally beloved icon in current pop music/pop culture. But the specifics of the show are definitely black centric and not geared towards white millennials.

I’m honestly not trying to be argumentative, but do you really think so? I feel like Beyonce is just massively popular across all demographics. I know that pretty much all my students (9th grade girls) are obsessed with her.

Yep. I got my degree in Education and all of our professors told us not to take jobs at charters, to hold out for public or private.

This is how it starts.