Exactly. My older late 30s friends make Seinfeld cracks and I politely try to laugh, but my younger friends watch/have watched the same things I did at their age/now.

....the point of her piece is to show she had flawed expectations, no good roadmap, and how that played out and her moving/growing past it...

Yep. I’m 31 and consider myself the oldest side of the millenials, because social media/internet was a huge part of my coming of age years. Got dialup when I was 14. I know that remembering dialup makes me a relative old-timer, but my young adulthood was also dramatically influenced and shaped by the dawning of…

Hahaha yes and those “gonna leave me hanging??” Dudes are usually the same ones who roll over and snooze after cumming without a thought of reciprocation.

I think you read the setup and missed the epiphany.

It’s the ones who like “being treated like women” who are squawking the loudest, you know it.

Exactly!

Cycle back to the only story her mother told her about men- the immense betrayal of discovering her bf masturbating to playboy... And their subsequent breakup.

But when you are that tougher girl and you see the other girls loving being treated that way, you do feel very superior.

Rude in a heartless adolescent way. I think she showed that, and her understanding that it was part of the problem. No one, however saintly they become in later life, no one gets through teen years without visiting some rude stupidity on at least one *someone*.

An excellent podcast came out on this last year. http://www.stufftheydontwantyoutoknow.com/podcasts/what-… and yep probably long haul truckers/predatory types who recognize easy prey... :-(

Thank you, and agreed. I’m an American, I was a freshman in college and was struck by a car. True, I was jaywalking, but it laid me out and I had to go to hospital for scans etc. they gave me good pain meds and sent me away after three hours. The bill was $21,000. I had no insurance and was at school on scholarships.…

Ding ding ding!

I agree, very slightly, with your main thesis but the way you write makes it sound like you just beat the snot out of your kid and feel guilty about it. You talk like my own mom. Also, the writer of the essay is a man, so, thereyago.

I love how he's always so presidential but when you see photos of them together at fancy events she always looks like the Empress of the World with her footman Barack in tow. God I hope they stay in the public eye.

Pssssht please. At no point in their relationship has beyonce not had plenty of her own bank. Next theory, please.

Yep. I’ve been there myself. I haven’t listened to Lemonade yet, I want to be alone because I’ve trod the path she’s singing about. Backwards and forwards. Her honesty brings so many emotions to the surface for me and sets them free, but I fear the power a little bit. Later this week, when school holidays are over and…

Lol, that’s hilarious. I bet that’s at least part of it for the side chicks. But, like, haha, side chicks.

Hehe I think it’s the gleeful Pinot Noir riffs and the wine drinking and what’s inside the track pants that keeps mine coming back. It’s fucking adorable. And affectionate horny happy drunk wife sex is tits. ;)

I respect that. And I respect that he’s definitely done something dynamic to/with her work, had an influence, that has perhaps helped drive her to greater artistry. Not just the facile thing of giving her song fodder, something more than that. Respect that. I respect that he’d be on board with/produce/distribute her…