I don’t know why but you guys are making me lol, it relieves the stress

I too am stressed, hold me.

It’s stressful to agree with both of you on this.

Hmm I see your point but I’m inclined to believe that last year’s festivities were 95% professional photoshoot and 5% actual fun. Everything was SO staged. I bet there were contracts.

you can sit by me.

I’ll sit next to you. We can discuss period clots and the difficulty of orgasming during penetrative sex!

Wow I just wanna burp in this guys face with one boob out in the middle seat so badly.

Agreed. If they’d stayed true to the book and had all the black characters banished to show the racism that Atwood described, they’d be accused of not having a diverse enough cast. If they cast color-blind (as they did here) they get accused of being insensitive to the intersectional nature of oppression that WOC…

When I first saw this as a kid I was like

Why on earth was this the number they picked for Falsettos...........

Am I the only one who feels like they’re having a stroke after reading this? I had to re-read several of those paragraphs multiple times and some of them I STILL don’t really get. I understand that this kind of a story can be a little confusing, but geez louise.

Please please update this headline to something like “Mazel Tov to Karen Pence on Her New Beehive and JSYK We’re Talking Actual Beehive Not Hairstyle Just to Be Clear Before You Get Rigorously Disappointed, Lindsay.”

I want to take a moment to say how much I appreciate all the work you put in, day after horrifying day, Ellie. You are doing excellent and important work here, and I find it both useful and heartening that you are doing it.

Exactly. It doesn’t matter how “pure” the motivation is when it comes to billionaires spreading their money around. As long as they’re doing SOMETHING to give back to the world that enriched them so ridiculously, that act stands on its own. The whole concept of noblesse oblige flies over Trump’s head — “If you must…

I think is meant to be what it is face value, he actually believes in those values. The stated reason he backed out of running for pres in 2016 was that his analysts thought him jumping into the race might help Trump win and he did not want to contribute to that. So I definitely think he puts his values over simply…

Right. This is one of the few things this week that I’m not cynical about. Bloomberg means to do good by this measure. Let’s let him without ascribing other motivations.

Oh, I think he will step up! In hunting down his mailing address, I ended up reading a lot about his climate initiatives when he was Mayor. It’s pretty impressive, and he got a lot of pushback at the time.

Yeah I agree with this, saying something is politically motivated as an inherent negative is part of why people lose trust for any politicians...see HRC (anytime bernie bros specifically saw her do something they might like it was b/c it ‘played well’ like I’m so sorry she wanted to raise the minimum wage without a…