Mr. Lana hates it when I haul anything to the curb - it looks unsightly to him. I always tell him ‘It’ll disappear in 20 minutes.’ And I’m always, ALWAYS right. No matter how worthless or beat-up it is.

Whenever I get rid of something that doesn’t bring me joy, I end up needing it sometime in the next 6 months. EXPLAIN THAT MARIE.

Nah, she didn’t :)

SAME GIRL

Thanks. I’ve truly spent 20 years thinking that was stupid nonsense, but I love your explanation.

She’s Princess Michael and the Real Housewives franchise rolled into one!! #TeamMuzunga

SHE MADE THE JOURNALIST CALL RICHARD THE HOMELESS GUY. I am not kidding it’s in the article. For Richard to confirm that she’s a nice person.

The shade. The SHADE.

It is masterful! Hats-off to Carrie Battan, who I am now following on Twitter.

Seriously - everyone should read that Elle article. It is merciless and hilarious. Being an out-of-touch pampered nitwit, she was probably extremely excited to be profiled. I LOVE IT.

The way Catholicism was explained to me as a kid: “If you go out for a long walk, and come back super thirsty and dying to drink a glass of water, you should pour yourself the glass of water and sit for a few minutes before you allow yourself to drink it.”

Oh, they never are brilliant.

Oh, believe me - I realise how profound the effects of traumatic bonding are, although not first-hand. Nor would I ever suggest trying to help a victim of domestic abuse by telling her “Hey, this is the way society has conditioned you!”

That is a pretty specific mom group you were added to. But still, you can see that kind of poisonous thinking sprinkled everywhere, even/especially in “spaces for women”. Jezebel was the first website I’d seen in my life where the majority of comments (if not all) say empathically “RUN GIRL” whenever someone shares…

I would have to agree - it is a blemish on what is already a sore spot for them

It is very much both things, not just the cognitive dissonance. Just consider the construct of the ‘difficult/brilliant man who is worth the heartache’ popularised in films, TV and music - in fact most films who have won the Oscar Best Picture deal in this trope, with the accompanying ‘long-suffering wife’ trope.…

‘Excellent instincts’?

All romance novels are Great Value versions of whatever “Gone With The Wind” meant for me when I was 12.

If a statement ever summed up the decaying state of civil rights in the US, it’s “we won’t look at your complaint.”

I can live with that perception. :) It felt good and right to get slightly outraged over outragebait.