That’s a great policy!

I grew up in a Scandinavian household and had to learn how to explain to my friends what on earth I was eating. Very glad to learn that there’s a multi-regional herring appreciation coalition!

From the “person on the street” type interviews I’ve heard with women in Alabama, it’s disturbing. A lot of rhetoric that comes out of being trained throughout your life to see other women as competition who could take away “your man” at any second. The worst quote that I’ve heard several times now from different…

Keillor was literally the joke my boyfriend and I made when this all started picking up steam after Weinstein!! Jaw on floor. Not saying I don’t believe it, because I do, but we were trying to come up with surprise left-field predators and he was the one that we were belly laughing about.

My friend is a mid-30s woman who went back to school to become a doctor, and most of her med school classmates were young men directly out of college (so, no substantial work experience yet). She said in her ethics class they could not wrap their brains around who it was appropriate to hit on. No, don’t hit on your…

A pilot friend told me never to put a dog in the cargo hold because sometimes the air pressure down there changes and the animals die. So personally I’d never put my dog on a plane unless I can smoosh him into one of those under-the-seat pet carriers (and dope him up on Benadryl). It’s not crazy to me that she’s…

I’ve lived in countries where those things fall apart regularly, and it makes me really upset that people here who complain about the government don’t know how much work is going into making those basic things run. There are many problems here but seriously, you take this stuff for granted at your own risk.

In context, she’s a writer with a PhD in (I’m not sure the technical term) but basically the anthropological importance of celebrity and gossip, how it effects and/or represents our society and culture. So when she does these kinds of pieces, it’s not meant to be a profile so much as an examination of a phenomenon. I…

I love her and have been reading her for years.

I am so into this series and hope it continues past Thanksgiving!

I had a similar experience when I hit 27 or 28... my mom got married around that age and I guess I’d just assumed I would too. I went on soooo many dates and dated a few guys but it never clicked. I’m mid-30s now and have a live-in partner. I don’t really see us being permanent but I don’t really worry about that…

And additionally has no compassion for the idea that hey, maybe that kid’s life has been a lot more high-pressure than mine, it’s possible that she needs some leeway to make her own choices now that she gets to step out of that role!

I’m just a few years younger than Chelsea Clinton and I remember really clearly how she was publicly made fun of because even though it had nothing to do with me it terrified me that maybe adults were noticing my skin/hair/fashion choices/just trying to figure out my identity. I don’t understand at all how anyone…

I think it’s mostly in the schools. These kids’ parents weren’t having my parents over for dinner or anything like that.

Since most families prioritize things like living in a good school district, yeah, it happens a lot. I grew up not at all wealthy but definitely better off than many, and I had friends who would get teased by fancier kids whose families had money for not just the education (public school, but you had to rent or buy in…

Or, you don’t really know if you’re being crazy or not until you hear that someone else had the same experience. We’re trained that way, we usually think we were at fault some how. When someone else stands up it helps us realize that the thing we always thought was wrong was actually wrong.

When I get to that point in my career I’ll be really happy for it.

They like to Netflix & chill from the wall, which I’m OK with. Lizards can appreciate good TV and they eat bugs while they’re at it. Just not at shower time. That’s non-negotiable.

I can’t even articulate how angry this makes me. I’m not ‘special’, I’m a person. I’ve never wanted anything other than to be viewed that way. And screw off Donald, you get to wear the same awful suit and tie every day while I have to agonize over what form of attire/jewelry/manicure sends the right message for every…

My family went to a pan-religious hippie-type spiritual place when I was a kid and we had what we called a Coming of Age Ceremony (which was basically to make us feel better that we didn’t get to have Bat/Bar Mitzvahs) and I remember the adults having to explain to us that we couldn’t use Crash Into Me in the program…