he was at my office today and apparently is a very sweet guy. i am only four years older than him tho and yet i was too old to be really stoked about it - i wish i was as excited as the twenty-somethings were le sighhhh. 

Is that a giant dusty asshole? Because it looks like it.

He doesn’t seem sweet, though, or he does only on stage. Just after the Bloom tweet he doubled down on assholery and insulted Bruce Springsteen’s talent. Dude’s a wanker.

Are you a dude, by chance? The “indeed”, the lack of acknowledgment of his actual mistake and rudeness...it’s so recognizable as dude condescension.

Even if that’s true, NPH should know who she is, A, and B, didn’t need to go after her in that way.

disingenuous isn’t the right word. she was being both modest - something he wouldn’t know anything about - and supplying him with context he definitely couldn’t deny having known.

These people are BROKEN

I can’t fucking BELIEVE he wrote that about Bruce Springsteen. It was bullshit. You DO NOT.

UGH

So I went on Twitter to confirm whether or not NPH is actually a fucking asshole. THE *SECOND* TWEET DOWN, HE INSULTS BRUCE “THE BOSS” MOTHERFUCKING SPRINGSTEEN - A LIVING LEGEND FOR A GODDAMNED REASON - AND SAYS HE DIDN’T DESERVE HIS TONY. WHAT IN THE EVER LOVING NAME OF IMPISH PIECES OF SHIT ON A FUCKING PIECE OF…

My mother is a therapist and when I described this article to her she was also horrified by that very implication - that one’s suffering/depression is the REAL living behind the FAKE. It’s a wrongheaded, reductive (as you’ve also suggested), and a dangerous idea — it could really confuse people. We are all the things,…

I’M WRITING THIS FROM THE FUTUUUUUURE.
I just moved to New York. When are you doing this again, ay?!
Chirp chirp.

I’ve been trying to understand my own mental health challenges for awhile, and one of the things that has made it hard for me to address is that my “essential self” is really quite easily joyful and content. Can you say more about how depression operates upon that (if that’s the right language)? I feel like it might…

I wonder if this is true for pretty much everyone, though, at some point. We’re made to understand that occasional despair is somehow an aberration and that happiness can be kept steadily up. Maybe occasional despair is a cycle for a lot or most people, like just another feeling.

This whole thread is helping me identify and name things I’ve been trying to identify and name for years. Wow.
And all because the article itself set “NOPE NOPE NOPE” warning bells off in my head that just seemed like she just. didn’t. get. it.

I know the expression is overused but THIS.

THIS. This is part of the reason I found this thesis so upsetting. It felt like such an immature summation of a her mental illness as some kind of TRUTH vs. REALITY or LIGHT vs. DARK because it worked for the feminist political reading. But often times it’s BOTH/AND. Ergh. I’m bothered by this whole thing so much.…

Some of us ladies work in technical fields precisely for this reason. Marketing all the time is exhausting. There’s enough pressure in real life.
I moved from marketing to product and I legit couldn’t be happier with the decision.

I totally appreciate that a lot of social media output is really negative. That said, it’s really valuable to recognize that “they”, social media, don’t do anything. Social media is just a medium for *us*  - and we are totally capable of using social media to show all sides of us, not just the highlight reels.

I…

I’m really uncomfortable with this thesis being the jumping off point for examining Kate Spade’s mental illness and her death. It feels like you’re rushing to shoehorn her death into a specific political narrative, and while there are pieces that might ring true, it seems disrespectful and reductive not to be more…