I saw this on my FB timeline when the Al Franken crap came out. Almost all women over 40 were like “it’s not that big a deal, jeez” and everyone younger was appalled. And once again, as a 45-y.o. I felt out of step with my generation. I think it’s like the reaction the same demographic gives to fat women wearing…

Even last year an old dude at a party touched my breast (twice, so you know it wasn’t an accident) and when I talked about it, I was essentially told to ignore it, he’s just an old man and why start drama over a non-event.

Update! Little Grapes loves the weighted blanket I made him for Christmas. He has slept better the last few weeks than he has in years. Now I’m making a smaller, lighter weight one for the couch.

The comments in articles about the “retail apocalypse” are always so frustrating to me, as someone who has over a decade of experience filling in income gaps with retail work. There are so many people who are so quick to say, “Good, I hate the mall!”

Some of the folks saying it are literally the same commenters that…

EXACTLY. He is not saying that he wants commitment, just not marriage. He is telling her that he loves what they have right now. Which means that if he meets someone he likes better, he will be gone. If she doesn’t want commitment, fine. But she does, so she should get out asap.

Practical Magic has remained one of my absolute favorite guilty pleasure movies for the past 10 years. It’s a real gem of a movie.

I have loved Shannen Doherty since she played a sassy Laura Ingalls-ish reboot after Melissa Gilbert got too old on LHOTP. She was a good actress then, even as a little dinker. Yes, I’m old.

Practical Magic > Charmed

My late ethics professor once told me every person deserves a lawyer, but it doesn’t have to be you.

Seriously. If marriage is something you want, then telling yourself “I shouldn’t want this”isn’t going to magically make you not want it. If she’s unhappy about it now, she’ll be unhappy about it later.

Knuckles Deep makes me sad because she describes herself as crazy and needy - now unless she’s broken into his house and stolen his child’s bunny and boiled it, I think “crazy” is some bad self-talk. She isn’t needy - she’s a person with needs and you only feel “needy” when those needs aren’t being met. I hate “love…

Thank you! I feel like we’re being trolled with these advice columns. At least one of the responses each time (usually more) are completely nuts. Maybe to drive conversation?

All of this. PLUS, she’s not that happy, or she wouldn’t have written the letter. Non - commitment isn’t enough for her to feel happy and secure and for a lot of people that is normal. She shouldn’t fight her instincts. Break up and get back in the dating game. The 40s are a sweet spot for divorced men—she can find…

I disagree in part to the answer to Knuckles Deep: If she’s enjoying herself, then yeah, marriage might not be the endgame. But if that’s where she would like to be headed, and he won’t acknowledge that and affirm it, he’s not really “all in” on their relationship. He’s not saying, “I see your point but I don’t really…

This is like when people excuse Roman Polanski because the 1970s. Spoiler alert: The 1970s were fucked up and wrong, but they were also about ten minutes ago. And fucked-up shit is always pretty obviously wrong to the recipients of that behavior ... it’s not like sodomizing 13 year olds was ever OK, just that at some…

I think the point is that she can’t have it both ways. If she wants to represent Weinstein that’s up to her, but that deals a blow to any reputation she may be trying to build as a champion of women. If she wants to protect that reputation she can make the choice not to represent him. But having chosen to take him on…

Taking more money to drop a client would almost always be a huge ethical violation which any state’s office of attorney regulations would happily suspend, sanction, or reprimand a lawyer for. Most lawyers actually follow the rules of professional conduct but I’ve got a ton of side-eye directed at Bloom here because…

As we work together on a project bringing my book to the screen

Jesus wouldn’t judge you for drinking it. He seems to have had other concerns, people loving each other and whatnot.

“I appreciate the way I’ve behaved with colleagues in the past has caused a lot of pain, and I sincerely apologize for it. Though I’m trying to do better, I know I have a long way to go.”