Exactly! Although what ruined...I mean impacted...the neighborhood in Brooklyn I grew up in was that so many affluent people fell in love with its charm (ie, mom and pops and houses that hadn’t been uglified in the 70s cause no one could afford to remodel, so a lot of the original 1800s flavor), and then the…

So at the beginning of quarantine, aka approx 365 days ago, Mr. Smooklyn and I decided it would be a laugh to remove our couch and drag our guest mattress into our living room in front of the TV.

So basically we’re all just in a giant MLM scheme.

I would be fuming if I were one of the women he harassed and read this. In my experience adults, and particularly female adults, tend to be pretty capable of telling the difference between genuine banter (even around workplace inappropriate topics!) and being creepily propositioned. Framing this as keeping up…

I think this is such an important point. One of the most damaging things for mental health (and by that I mean psychic, spiritual, cognitive, and just plain old sanity) is the double bind where we’re getting two opposite messages at once. It literally fries our circuits. Sometimes it can be overt, but when it’s more…

I don’t get why people care so much about what other people care about :)

I am still vociferously demanding us early 80s folks be recognized as the Oregon Trail Generation, or Reagan Babies, or Children Confused by Myst, or anything but millennial as I honestly have more early life experiences in common with my Gen X sister than I do with folks born 10 years later!

Thanks to sexism we tend to underestimate sociopathy and sociopathic traits in women, so glad it’s on display here.

When it comes to the teen breakup piece, I’m with you. Probably since lyrics were invented a good portion of them have been devoted to someone breaking someone’s heart. Plus, there was definitely a manufactured, ‘let’s sell albums’ feel to the drama that speaks more to records execs and whoever was handling JT at the…

So weird that there’s an apology for the treatment of Cruz and Collins but none (that I’ve heard of, I could be wrong here) for her treatment of the progressive wing of the party. But unity, right? 

Well, at least Philly has come though and appropriately rectified this. The city has now rolled out...a form to tell them we’re interested in getting a vaccine. This will not lead to any scheduling or action, but just ya know, let them know we like the idea.

Really appreciate your naming this. My partner and I have been in a stalemate about having kids for the last 3 years (him not wanting, me wanting) and this whole pandemic business has tilted me more in his direction. With the long ranging economic effects of this and how precarious our existence in the world feels…

This doesn’t sound like a sensationalist supposition to me. It sounds like some scientists warning us that, according to the data they’re seeing, we have cause to be concerned or at the very least have this on our radar. 

We’re more than great coats ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Ummm...are we gonna mention the sexual assault or are we just pretending it’s a cute plot device? C’mon, if the gender of the main characters was reversed this would not have gone without comment.

The psychological violence and manipulation can sometimes be worse than physical violence and much harder to heal from. So glad you are free from him.

I am so incredibly sorry that happened to you.

Not gonna lie, pretty darn uncomfortable with hyping the raunchiness of the sex scenes without even mentioning the reproductive coercion aka sexual assault?! I mean, if the roles were reversed and Simon had done this to Daphne I’m pretty sure there would be an article here on it and some understandable ire,…