That’s because there’s more salt and fat in Chipotle than your conscious brain would ever believe is possible. Seriously. Didn’t you see that NYTimes infographic? The fresh tomato salsa alone has more salt than a normal-size bag of Lays potato chips. And those are the VEGETABLES. If you baked a bunch of extra lard…

It really was. When it was later explained to him, he thought for a moment and declared that since he paid for HBO’s services for a household of two adults, and he and my mom don’t use it, my brother and I were a net zero as far as HBO’s user base was concerned, and thus it was an ethical nonissue. I’ve never actually…

I had the same experience (though I went to public school) but I mean, it kind of all comes up again, right? We had basic good-touch/bad-touch in 3rd grade, a physical puberty-focused course in 5th grade (gender-separated), a basic biology-focused course in 7th grade (also gender-separated) and then a fully…

Really interesting. The one issue that came up for me was seeing how much trends in this area of education has changed. I went through a really comprehensive sex ed course, but at the time, the prevailing wisdom was still that IUDs were only for women who had had a baby, and were a bad idea for young women. So I…

I suggested to my parents that I subscribe to HBO if they didn’t want us using their password anymore, and my dad said “What’s HBO Go?” so I figured I was pretty safe.

That’s the single best thing Pat Kiernan does on NY1 every morning, so I consider the Japanese newscasters in the very best of company.

Please. This is the best thing that’s ever happened to Anne Bowen and her collection, and if she doesn’t realize that, she’s an idiot. Outlets that probably would have ignored her collection completely have written headlines with her name in it today. You know what they say about bad publicity...

Really, no IG of the spray bottles of “stripper wash” handed out at the party? The overall message as far as I can see was just a glorification of all things sexual consumerism, running the gamut from Hooters to King of Diamonds. Not that they’re the same thing, but they certainly exist along the same spectrum.

Why would an openly gay fashion designer throwing a party during NYFW ever say that? If you don’t have any idea who or what you’re talking about, it’s okay to say nothing, you know.

Nah, I don’t think so. They play together regularly as doubles partners, so their tennis game isn’t always adversarial, and they’ve played against each other since they were children. In a tiny way, I think about my family, where all the adults (except me) are lawyers—siblings, spouses, and now some of the kids.…

As a graduate of a women’s college, and as a human being, I can say that of course there are inherent benefits to single-sex group. Don’t you have a group of same-sex friends you rely on for certain things? Aren’t you reading Jezebel? There are obvious benefits to creating spaces for and by women, and I don’t think…

Lies. All LIES.

The Rolling Stones released eight albums in the 80s and 90s, and arguably their most famous albums were contemporaneous with Peter, Paul & Mary’s best-known albums. So there’s no demographic reason that you couldn’t or wouldn’t have heard of them—they were recording when you were alive and aware and their old stuff…

I currently live in the Village, a block off the Halloween parade route and a block and a half from the epicenter of the Pride parade. There’s less crime but no less chaos on those days. My philosophy is that you have to either embrace it or avoid it entirely—there’s no way to try and have a normal day while it’s all…

Fascinating. I finished The Nazi Officer’s Wife over the weekend, which is about a different woman in the same situation, and it was really riveting. I think anything that complicates and explicates things we tend to think of as a monolith (Nazis, Jews, Germans, etc.) in stories like this that are so massive in their…

Yes. It was never something I was comfortable saying out loud, but I avoid this one, and when I used to live right on the parade route for the Puerto Rican Day parade, I learned to leave town for the weekend. The first year I lived there, more than 200 people were arrested and my neighborhood was basically shut down…

I think it’s telling that the person I was most compelled to send this to was my little brother.

“Most people don’t find the things me and my friends do very funny, just immature, so I didn’t expect to get this big of a reaction”

It was so rude, but kind of funny—she never did it about anything REALLY intimate, though I’m sure she must have heard some of that too. Like, if she heard me whining to my mom that I didn’t want to practice piano, she would call and tell me how nice it sounded when I played, and to keep going with it. Or to let my…

My next door neighbor when I was growing up used to call our house all the time to follow up on things she’d overheard on her baby monitor, and would casually drop tidbits from my parents’ private phone calls into conversation. It drove my mom absolutely batshit.