Oh we DEFINITELY wanted Furbys. My brother and I spent a few weeks trying to teach them to curse at each other, and then they had to spend most of their time with a bag over their heads to shut them up. There was something very disconcerting about sitting there doing homework when behind you a little voice trills “La…

I used to work right near the Flatiron building where they film most of his episodes, and I would totally sometimes wander aimlessly around hoping to spot his camera crew with someone cool. Sadly, ‘twas not to be.

Oh 100% agreed. A bone structure that defies time and space, to say nothing of the laws of man.

I am now at an age where he is NOT really old enough to be my dad, unless he was a very precocious/careless college student. But not by much. So I am dealing with that fact, while ALSO simultaneously feeling slightly reassured that if I do in fact remain single forever, at least not *everyone* is going to be fat and…

So, the answer is...he is middle-aged. 51 to be exact. So not like, CREEPY old like you have to now judge yourself for wanting to sleep with a 70 year old, but not young either. Simply very, very handsome of the Paul Newman variety.

Right?? Like even if the issue is supposed to be more emotional than practical, it really doesn’t make sense to me that a fertility doctor has no readily-accessible vocabulary for talking about family planning. Every professional woman I know has sat down and thought about the timeline on which she could potentially…

Hahah yes it is a made-up name. But there is a real fancy Manhattan private school called the Ethical Culture School, of the very progressive yet very expensive variety, which I presume was part of the inspiration.

They were SO good. Although my cousins went to the actual Ethical Culture School in Manhattan, so b) hit a little close to home. We do recognize how douchey the name sounds, but it’s a great school. :/

Right?? Like for two people who ostensibly TALK ABOUT PREGNANCY FOR A LIVING, they are REALLY bad at talking about pregnancy.

TOTALLY agreed, omg. He just needs to deal with his macho bullshit, and that is obviously the perfect solution. She hasn’t ever brought it up seriously, which is again, something any non-TV couple with equal incomes probably would have by now. I get that he’s supposed to be kind of a throwback character, but he’s also…

I’ve been more interested in the show this season, but it’s still suffering from what feels like an INSANELY unrealistic lack of communication to me, particularly given the conceit that they’re both ob-gyns. Part of it is the totally ambiguous timeline and giant stunt baby (Mindy is applying to preschools six weeks…

So when you reverse-image-search that last photo, it turns up a Shutterstock result for “roman sandals” and is clearly not from any kind of fashion publication at all. So the point is...ugly thing is ugly? Fine if you don’t like it, but not super-ethical in journalism terms to go find a totally unrelated,…

I was JUST talking about this with a friend. I think one of the genius things about Roald Dahl, Lewis Carroll, and lots of other classic children’s literature is that it reflects and acknowledges how scary and complex the world can be for children. When words refuse to hold their meaning or pronunciation, and you’re…

I mean, she really believed she would be making a difference. And she wanted to be a doctor, which she felt was the most important thing a person could do. Despite the current ideology, not everyone is allergic to the idea of developing credentials before starting to push a political agenda.

Wow. I was not expecting to be actually moved by anything Russell Simmons had to say to Donald Trump, but as a passionate Democrat with a loony Republican best friend, I gotta say...I can relate. It’s possible to love someone and want them to be successful even as you admit that their success would basically run…

I love people like you because you ensure that I have a steady stream of consulting work for when you realize that your made-up, “counterintuitive” strategy is 100% ineffective. I also hate people like you because someone who looks at what works for everyone else and says “Hey, WHAT IF WE DID THE OPPOSITE” are the…

Yup, definitely not a traffic driver. Just an engagement play, which is why I bet there was an ad buy associated with it—it’s not usually worth the time and effort it takes to administrate it unless you:

I mean, frankly, in a climate as noisy as Twitter, ANYTHING is basically worth doing if it’s not going to result in a criticism you haven’t heard before e.g. you’re starting an actual controversy. In addition to college students, I think we all as a population have gotten a lot more thin-skinned and hyperbolic about…

Google “Kylie Jenner’s lip kit” if you need to understand why everything you just said is wrong. Companies CAN and do gaslight you into spending unreal amounts of money on shit you don’t need, and the mechanism that gets you to do that is hashtags and branding and affinity. It’s not enough to have great branding and…

Was almost certainly part of an ad buy with Refinery. In my experience, the brands like them because they feel like it’s an opportunity to engage with their customer in a fairly neutral way—it actually probably generated more positive or at least interesting conversation around their brand than they usually get,…