All I could think of throughout that interview was “Wow, this is a woman who really, REALLY hates her parents.” Between the obvious rejection of their entire family history to declaring another, completely unrelated man to be her dad, you gotta wonder what happened there.

I am thrilled with this news mainly because I was trying to remember the name of this show the other day and my friend was convinced that I had hallucinated it.

I hated every minute of the Bedouin tent experience. Our American trip leader was an adorable, gentle hippy-dippy musician and he was so visibly uncomfortable that he asked for a bunch of extra blankets and we all layered up and stayed outside by the fire most of the night, playing music and avoiding the madness. I…

I felt exactly the same way. That *did* happen to a few people, but I think you can make your requests known, and there’s definitely a stated option for a 22-26 year old trip. I went during the winter, over Christmas, and about half our trip were 3rd year law students seizing the moment before having to work nonstop…

My first time in Israel was on Birthright when I was 27, and I had such a fundamentally different experience from my friends who went in college. Once everyone is in adult relationships, mostly settled into their adult lives, and better educated about Israel’s history and its present conflict, it’s a much more…

I started doing my own laundry when I was 14 after my father came up from folding in the laundry room bellowing “A THONG?! Who said you were old enough to buy thongs??” However now, at 30, when I do laundry at my parents’ house, I have to ask for help because I haven’t touched a washing machine in the 9 years I’ve…

I had a bunny named Silky so...yeah.

No one cares about subscription income. You’re getting it because they can (theoretically) sell millions of dollars worth of advertising against their circulation and once you’re receiving the magazine, you’re included in that number, whether you paid for it or not. Your $15 a year doesn’t matter compared to the $4mil…

Yeah, those giant trash cans in every movie theater you’ve ever been in are purely decorative.

I don’t know why sip n’ sees are not a thing where I’m from, but a friend threw one for her first baby and it was GREAT. She’d had a shower just with her family, because they love buying gifts and that took care of the big basics—her mom bought her crib, her aunts got together and got her stroller, etc. Then once the…

Periodically someone dumps a stack of them in the lobby of my apartment building in the West Village in NYC. I have never seen anyone take one, and I assume whoever takes out our recycling just tosses them in.

Right, exactly. It really depends on how finely and in which direction you decide to slice it. If you’re talking about about “curvy women,” as we often are in media today, then Amber Rose and Kim Kardashian are certainly more conventionally attractive than say, Gabourey Sidibe (who I reference thinking she is awesome…

Right, exactly—”conventionally attractive” is definitely attached to that thin, white, European ideal, and that ideal certainly deserves to be problematized, but I do think its fairly slippery language. It’s basically a caveat that we’re not supposed to be okay with accepting this “beautiful” person as unquestionably…

Yes, as opposed to the Tilda Swintons of the world for whom Jezebel reserves their unmitigated enthusiasm. It’s usually a subtle neg that says “you might think this person is extraordinary in some way, and technically/according to social norms they’re pretty, but not EVERYONE thinks this kind of thing is pretty.”…

And I’m saying that I found it offensive on Pinkham’s part to say “fuck you” to loyal readers who have a perfectly valid reason to point out that this girl’s behavior was flawed. I’ve found a really simple solution for avoiding disproportionate penalties for smoking pot, which is that if something has felony charges…

No, I’m talking about the fact that the punishment is there to deter people from doing what she’s doing because intoxicated drivers KILL PEOPLE, you prat. There is absolutely no excuse, ever. Fucking drive yourself home and get high on your couch, that’s your business, but operate your 2,000 pound weapon safely. I…

If we can’t get working adults to save their actual income for their very imminent futures, how on earth are we going to get horny teenagers to consider an abstract percentage of their theoretical future income and how much of it might be spent on something that hasn’t happened yet, and expect it to profoundly affect…

He didn’t bring his own beer koozie, they were handing them out at the beer tents. Also, the same group came back sunday and looked even better in electric-blue suits printed with pink roses.

Nope. Sorry. Not gonna go fuck myself. Framing that as “thinking she deserved to have her life ruined on account of some weed” is specious. I have zero sympathy for people who drive under the influence of ANYTHING. This fucking moron was GETTING HIGH WHILE DRIVING. I get that it’s a nice story because she *didn’t*…

I didn’t. Did you? I’m aware polyamorous is not the same as swinging. I mentioned the fact that this particular couple was polyamorous because the person I was responding to was asserting that all swingers are married, heteronormative, patriarchal straight people, and not everyone who has sex in the format of…