I guess I appreciate the current era of “curating” more than the unedited baby blitz of yore because at least the former is likely to be more interesting. Most of my friends from early in life, like high school, have had kids for awhile now, as I am from the south, whereas my close friends acquired post-college in…

It’s not that I don’t believe you, but you have to admit that is NOT the message women get from the larger culture. I don’t think it’s a mystery why some women believe attractiveness and weight are very much releated. I do think that dating more actual guys can definitely help one’s confidence as far as the supermodel…

I knew I was officially old when I first encountered a situation where I would actually rather just not drink at all than drink the wine available because it was shitty wine. That doesn’t always hold—sometimes free is enough to get me to drink shitty wine or sometimes my need of the soothing powers of all wine trumps…

Maybe that’s a factor. I’m glad the gowns aren’t ditched entirely! Although we had a winter semi-formal at my high school as well which was really still formal for girls, just no tuxes for guys, and we STILL went all-out for prom.

YES, I was out to dinner with mr. perdue a couple weeks ago and we were seated across from a table of prom-goers and I couldn’t believe how casually the girls were dressed compared to proms in the late 90s/early 00s that I remember. I’m from the south and now I live in LA, so I thought maybe regionally we were just…

I cry like, once every few years maybe? Usually when I read a really sad thing some rando from high school shares on social media about something really sad happening with an animal and then I just lose it at my desk and have to leave early so I don’t look like a crazy person who was just crying at her desk about how…

I just fell for Fashion Birks (white patent, FTW) and I still think they’re ugly, but I’m on my way to making them cute-ugly. Tevas are really a whole other level of hideous that I cannot endorse now or ever. Your description of the “rock climbing chic” of 90s Western US inhabitants was spot-on and hilarious.

Libby Anne actually addresses that in another post—it’s not an accident that rape is actually not on the fundamentalist Christian side at all. To paraphrase her, these people oppose rape only to the extent that it is violent or more generally they object on the grounds that it robs a woman of her purity/man of his…

GoT is also a lot better than True Detective on that count—there are numerous, varied and interesting female characters on GoT, even if terrible things happen to them all the time.

Bingo. I admit that I am totally squicked out by these transactional sorts of relationships, but hey, what works for other people and makes them happy is their business. It’s just mostly disturbing to me that this setup seems pretty much one-sided. I’d still cringe at trophy husbands I’m sure, if they were a thing,…

I believe the phrase is “wreaking havoc”.

My friend had a very small wedding (like < 30 people) and only two of us adult single women in attendance. We painstakingly staged photos of her preparing to toss and the other single lady and me posing running away. It was great.

Oh yeah, after a few years of awkwardly standing as far back in the crowd as possible, avoiding that bouquet like I avoided all balls in the outfield as a bookish youth, I finally just said “je refuse” and stopped getting up at all for the bouquet toss. I doubt any of the brides ever noticed and no one else had the…

God, I hope so. You can pry my skinny jeans from my cold dead (FABULOUS) legs. I’m ok with a good straight leg and think that’s pretty universally flattering, and I can even briefly entertain a flare resurgence, but dear god I was a teenager in the 90s and I cannot go back to having all that extra fabric hanging…

I think hearing his feelings articulated by Rando Shlub That Guy also was when Don realized that actually, despite how much of a screwup he feels he is right now, that’s NOT his life and people do still care about him, despite all the shit he puts them through and that’s what made him feel it was ok for him to go back…

Absolutely. Stan and Peggy work because work is such a critical component of Peggy’s life and identity. We can debate about whether it should be or if she should get some more hobbies, but the show has always shown this as her true passion in life (and she’s good at it!), so I think if she has success in love too, it…

YES THIS. As someone who grew up in TX and has zero trace of an accent, I have been calling bullshit on Dubya’s drawl since forever. He was there for like middle school. There’s no reason he alone in his family should sound like a cartoon character.

Oh yeah, exactly, because that’s totally what drug addicts do all the time—make well-considered, rational decisions about how to spend their money with zero influence from you know, a chemical addiction. It’s just like when you decide to buy quinoa instead of brown rice.

So, drug addicts can starve? Ok, sounds like a great plan. That will definitely help the drug addicts, their children, and society as a whole.