When your girlfriend looks like an underfed 12 year old vegan goth but you accuse a heroic rescue worker of being a pedophile anyhow...I guess that is what you do as an entitled white dude from a country whose former apartheid past gave you fucking privilege the likes of which few people will ever know. FUCK. OFF.…

I am surprised that more people aren’t examining the authenticity of this piece- if I’m reading it correctly, it sounds like these are anonymously submitted pieces that are then “vetted” before publication. I think someone at Refinery29 didn’t do their homework this with one. Slate had a great take: https://slate.com/h…

I used to read them too but what eventually made me stop was how it felt like every single writer was living with her boyfriend, thus all her bills were split in half, and it started to piss me off. I wanted to read about single women, such as myself, who paid for every single bill by themselves. 

Oh MY. After reading this article, I could easily collapse into tears. I am 49, and I make $55K per year. Even so, I rent a *room* in a house in the NYC suburbs for $750. I am very careful with my money. I have no debt, and I mostly cook/eat at home. I also fund my 401K. I’m wondering if the intern has any idea of how…

I worked at a predominately female start-up in NYC for almost 3 years. Without exaggeration, I’d say 85% of my coworkers were in a very similar situation. Lots of help from parents, lots of rent paid, very little student loans. Everyone had expensive salads delivered for lunch, everyone was part of a gym, everyone…

I’d totally read the Gen X money diaries.  But then, I’d read pretty much anything by gen xers because I feel like we are left out of so many things.

I know R29 and other similar publications (*cough cough*) are still less than interested in Gen X, but similar breakdowns of our own financial habits might be educational because our thrifty habits were baked-in during the 1980s-90s. I have no lack of empathy, because there’s enough overlap to have shared many issues…

The truly frugal-by-necessity among us can just look at this as a joke. I read the article out loud at the bar last night and we all laughed and laughed and laughed. 

I don’t know if this counts as a craft, but I started baking bread this week! Now that our kitchen is complete I treated myself to a *gorgeous* red KitchenAid mixer, and have finally tackled learning to make bread (and polishing other baking skills). I’m working out of Reinhart’s Crust and Crumb, which is fabulous. My…

What I wonder would old women do or don’t do that would lead to grey vaginas? Are we supposed to be putting youth serums down there?

I highly partial to the port of winer extractions.

Summer Road Trip Thread:

As some of you may know, 40+ GMG employees are leaving/have left the company after taking buyouts.

Wait, what? Why is he spouting “No Collusion” in a tweet that is supposed to be empathetic towards victims and their families? He is a fucking moron.

As someone who paid to see Vampire Academy and Beautiful Creatures in the theater this is absolutely my kind of Trash, and also Matthew Goode does things to me and Lindsay Duncan is awesome. So, yes, this will be happening. Wearing a hooded sweatshirt, sunglasses, and telling no one - but it will be happening.

Hey everyone, any soccer/ football fans out there? Wasn’t today’s Sweden v Germany a nail-biter? I really wanted the Swedes to get a point.

Weekly Achievement Thread! What have you done this week that you’re particularly proud of? Share here so that we can cheer along with you!

First product diary I have ever related to. I guffawed at Equate Scar Gel being lovingly bolded, just like all the K-beauty and micellar whatsits in other product diaries. Aerosol deodorant-“graffiti for your pits.” Well fuck all if that didn’t make me wanna run buy some. And you went there with the Vicks vaporub!

Pretty sure I just saw him on Conan bragging about buying his wife Lydia Hearst (he certainly has a type, wow) tampons. He was like, “I was so excited for the opportunity, yeah!” and putting on that whole, “I’m a good guy front.”

I pray that woman has her own bathroom.