I NEEDED THIS. I've been slowly inching towards getting one of those breezy, messy, grown-out looking pixies, and this validation is excellent.

I root for him the way I used to root for LiLo (after 10 years of her bullshit though I kind of gave up on her). I think he's got some issues he needs to work through but he seems like a puppy dog at heart, and I always love a good redemption story.

I'm like, the poster child for bad Millennial co-habitation behaviors.

YES THIS. I was coming here to add this to the list. It's like magic—long-lasting moisture, none of the grease.

It's no rosebudding, that's for sure.

Agreed. It's on the weird side, but like. Mark has written about exponentially grosser shit than this.

How fucking stupid do you have to be to engage in this kind of fuckery FROM A GOVERNMENT COMPUTER?

So lucky! There are specialists out there that specifically focus on treating compulsive behaviors like trich, but the ones near me don't take insurance and aren't affordable. Boo.

To be honest I've just kind of resigned myself to living with it. There are periods where it gets really bad, and others where I'm more successful at self-regulating—like you said, identifying the situations where it's happening most and trying to find ways to divert my attention from it.

This was lovely. I've been dealing with trich for the better part of two decades now—and it's basically been impossible to find treatment for it, because so few therapists even know what do with it. It's this weird, intense kind of experience that you don't really have a language to describe to those around you.

I'm embarrassed to admit how much shit I bought based off of this feature.

I would like to know how to not take so damn long to put on my makeup. I'm not doing anything extensive like contouring or even more than like, two shades of eyeshadow, but it still takes me aaaaaagesssss and sometimes makes me late for work.

You don't even know how happy this makes me. I loved your How to be a Girl series over at The Hairpin a few years back—not only did it occupy me during the day at the world's most soul-sucking job, it actually taught me how to do my makeup like a grownup!

Clark is amazing. But his whole relationship with Martha is GROSS GROSS GROSS and gives me the cringes.

Just to add here, since I'm not sure if I was clear in my original post: I'm talking about "discourse" in the context of the conversations happening among the Left and in social justice circles—not the dominant discourse of society as a whole or among mainstream liberals (e.g., Chait's territory). Because we already…

Chait's fatal flaw in this article is not masking his derision (he is truly a smarmy fuck), making it easy to dismiss him outright on the basis of his white maleness. But as you say—he actually makes a valid point in asking who isn't participating? (He never says he's being silenced or denied a platform.) How many…

Why has this not gotten more stars

Robert Mitchum. I saw Night of the Hunter when I was like, 15, and I SWOONED.

Nevermind the inappropriateness of swooning over a goddamned murderous preacher, but. Look at this guy. Would hit it x1000

A guy whose life ambition was to become a cut-rate Slash.

Yeah, it was very much a "cut off her nose to spite her face" kind of move. While my clearance was no longer considered active once they revoked it from their system, it was still valid and useful to her. It's not like there was anyone else available to do my job until they hired a replacement.