Totally. She's someone who seems fundamentally broken inside, compared to the other characters who seem more lightly neurotic.
I don't think she's innocent either. I just think she has limited ways of approaching problems and getting what she wants - I think this episode was a perfect illustration. She wanted to get…

It does kinda make me feel like LD read a bunch of articles on the opioid crisis last year and has decided to retcon it in throughout the series

I wonder if Jessa actually knows any other way of doing things. She's definitely not a nice person, but I feel like she's always had more depth to her than the other girls, with maybe the exception of Shosh

Or go into therapy herself. Her training program might actually help her sort through things a lot - I just finished a residency in psychiatry, and I saw a lot of my colleagues make a lot of positive changes over five years. Getting insight into other people's maladaptive patterns, and learning how to be more…

I think that speaks to the argument being made that Jessa is someone who has no idea what she's doing - I don't think she didn't care at all about Hannah, I think when faced with difficult emotional situations she has no idea how to behave, and instead just lashes out, or acts above-it-all. I think in more recent…

I like a lot of Tina Fey's work, but I have to agree. I recently read Bossypants, and found it really disappointing. There was a lot of really dicey stuff about race, (one anecdote basically had the moral of "it's not racist, just practical") and she's very defensive about how SNL is not sexist. I got the feeling that…

I think Darius was cold out of guilt. Tiffany was getting more and more clear that she had genuine feelings. He had said before how uncomfortable he was using her, and her bright-eyed "last night was great!" enthusiasm probably made him feel worse for sleeping iwth her. I find Tiffany herself actually very…

I work a lot with survivors of sexual assault, and most were from someone the person knew, that was difficult for various reasons to cut out of their life (i.e. a parent, etc), especially if you're living in a small place. It's really hard to process, because the feelings towards the rapist really aren't that…

I read somewhere else (possible Vulture?) that saw Bayley and Poussey crossing paths as showing them as really being not all that different - just two kids out in the city, who actually have no personal issue with the other. It reminded me of the scene in All Quiet On the Western Front, where the German soldier is…

One thing I found really interesting is how race is shading the gender politics. One of the many reasons that Chet is floundering is that he doesn't get that Darius and Romeo don't automatically see him as an ally, and themselves as part of his boys' club. Maybe I'm misreading it, but there's an air of distance and…

There's a version in Canada, Love it or List It Vancouver, that's wayyyy more tolerable because the hosts have charm instead of bitterness. It's also fun as someone who doesn't live in Vancouver to just repeatedly gasp at how crazy the prices are, and feel smug that my city is better

Mmm..I would say the lack of comfort identifying as a feminist has more to do with social pressure to maintain the status quo in a patriarchy, which also socializes women to avoid conflict and people please. Some people also really rail against the notion that they may be at a societal disadvantage (I know racial…