A lot of hospitals offer photography in situations like this, so its not necessarily a glamourous photoshoot. I’ve known non-famous people who post these on their social media accounts to essentially say, “they existed in this world. they will be remembered.” It wasn’t thirsty or fake for them to do it, and I think…

Sorry, I think you misunderstand me, I was less than clear. Pickling is not exclusively an acid process. However the American palate favors sweet and vinegar notes, so that is what is most common in US. However there are plenty of lacto-fermented pickles (the process by which kimchi is made) sometimes using a salt…

Pickling, whether salt based, lacto-fermented in the same way as kimchi (I will die on the salt pickle hill), or vinegar based, is a fermentation process? See also hot sauce and ketchup?

Great article, the focus on capitalism and feminism really gives context to the history of the wedding industry and where we have come today.

Second Adastra’s mention of The Care and Keeping of You. My Mother was very frank and open about puberty, which was great, but not thoughtful about it. As a result I knew a lot but with wide gaps of knowledge. My friend had that book though and it filled in all the gaps...in a frank and open way.

Inherited by early 90s classic Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead!

This is something I’ve been mulling over too. It used to be so popular to be earnest, a victorian virtue. However nowadays, its nihilism, satire, irony, snark, those are our modern virtues. They are what make us popular while earnestness, vulnerability, reaching for connection, all these things are cringe. Uncool. It…

Romance is a big genre, which includes Jackie Collins-type novels. I generally stick to historical fiction but there it still ranges from a ‘fade to black’ style of writing to full out descriptions of acrobatic sex using traditional Anglo-Saxon words.

I strode into the article, not knowing about the Adam Driver interview particularly, ready to dig in to someone finally saying that Terry Gross is the worst. She’s utterly revered, but I don’t know how many times I’ve listened to her patronizingly demean the very thing an artist is promoting to their face, and usually…

Relevant to the point about the de-stigmatization of faux fur, I bet alot of younger people probably don’t even know that the teddy coat is supposed to be a faux shearling. I think most think of it as just like, a thicker boucle. This is just based on the utter lack of any discussion about the coat that I’ve seen…

isn’t it kind of the point? its always sounded inherently ironic to me because its a rejoinder. “You Millenials blah blah blah” “OK, Boomer”. 

Stress of planning a wedding fractures their relationship. I kid, I kid. (kinda)

Most people who even dabble in veg know that the majority of the meat flavored alternatives are awful. Better to eat dat butternut squash and black bean burger and have it taste good, for the most part. And many veg friends I know are a little wary that instead of restaurants offering unprocessed, plant-based…

CVS Caremark is the woooooorst.

I used to be such a fan of Little Women. But after reading more about Alcott’s life, I increasingly am so tired of the rosy version of her life as written in Little Women. Her life which she based much of it on was so much more fascinating and complicated. I’d much rather see a movie about her idealist/neglectful…

I watched it this weekend too; a friend said the plot was very up and down like a roller coaster, not the traditional up up up, peak, down, reconcile, denouement. I just kind of felt like even though the characters and the writing were sparking, the direction itself was kind of flat, but that could be a money thing,…

I think I was just thinking along the lines of our only value to larger societal assholes as the ability to make babies. But I suppose that value doesn’t mean they listen...

I just got really damn depressed thinking about your point: Is the potential to be a mother, sadly, the only way women are ever taken seriously? With that motherhood gone and womanhood left, will people stop pretending to care about women?

The Why of it is often blamed on fancy facilities in some kind of arms race to attract those dumb millennial students, but in actuality, is as you say, cuts. That state (and federal) funding has been declining for a while, especially with the belt-tightening excuse of the recession. Which, funds haven’t really gone…

I think they were just waiting to see if the people they would grow up to be would be people who would be together. Divorce rates tend to be lower among those who marry later.