$5 says tump wins again because everything is terrible and people will continue to vote against their own self interest because they want a man who will “tell it like it is.”

I love your post. I had a similar sort of thought. Perhaps she never married because she was like “man relationships can be bullshit sometimes... why would I make it hard to extricate myself”. Perhaps she doesn’t particularly care about children. I have a pretty high stakes job and right now I slog on because I’m in a…

It’s that same vibe of the dude who hurts you, and then immediately turns it around about how sorry he is and what an awful person he is, so that you’re supposed to end up comforting him instead.

There’s something about this letter that comes off as almost....proud(?) of how much influence they think they have over their ex. Couching it in self flagellation is adding victimhood to narcissism.

Yes but who will tell the cook to make their dinner or tell the housekeeper to clean their bathrooms? It’s like watching Ann Frank’s diary unfold before us. 

She was still rocking “The Rachel” into the 2000s. I remember seeing a picture of her from 2001 or 2002 and wondering why she was wearing the hottest haircut of 1995. 

90s? Yeah, I can see that. I was thinking early 2000s, but 90s makes more sense. Digging the ‘stache.

“Everyone is on edge and just trying to hold it together and stay strong.”

It’s not even shade.  It’s just passive aggressive bratty whining.  

Yeah, the thing about the Office is that even if it doesn’t tick all the boxes required of 2019 shows to be deemed sanctified by the sanctimonious, it still resonates with a lot of people.

Did you even read Seinfeld’s op-ed, Rebecca? Seinfeld was responding to people who are claiming NYC is dead. He wasn’t giving people shit for leaving the city due to personal economic issues. 

I’ll enter this into evidence.

In elementary school, I had this terrible teacher, Mr. Long. He was a dick who clearly had anger management issues and a palpable dislike of children. Lest you think he was some holdover from the days when no one cared what went on in classrooms, he was 25. We were his second class after completing his bachelor’s and…

Not mine, but Samantha Irby’s (a published author, but this is from her wonderful blog, so perhaps someone hasn’t seen it).

Seventh-grade boy: “You suck the big one!”

I work in software, a very male dominated industry. I was negotiating a deal with another company and the representative said “have you ever worked in software before? It seems like you don’t know what you’re doing.” To which I responded “I see on my LinkedIn notifications that you looked at my page the past 3 days in…

In my early 20s I had a part-time job tending bar. There was a guy who would come in every night and ask me out every night. I would turn him down every night. He thought he was God’s Gift. Really smarmy, as if he’d trained under a pick-up artist. He really wanted to be Tom Cruise. One night, my ex boyfriend (with whom…

I have my Madewell bag bought 3 years ago. No extraneous crap, no logo, subtle monogram and just about perfect. It was not cheap, but it is well made and I use it all the time. Buy quality.

Did I just read an ad disguised as a think piece about a $250 tote bag?

While I appreciate the brand/positioning and the multitudinous size and color options, “nope” to a large highly-visible logo of any sort, and a big fat screamy reverberating “NOOO” to a two-hundred-and-fifty-dollar pleather tote. Also nope to flat straps and handles that inevitably stretch and pull and go all wonky.