The undeniable feeling that, as you castigate a troll, he’s rubbing his Red Dwarf mouse pad against his crotch and sighing, Angry liberal women typing at me. Oh yah. That’s how I like it.
Inside them, no one’s having fun.Instead, people are expressing needs (to earn money, to see a woman’s skin) in pretty much the most depressing way possible.
[When I was with the wrong man], it felt like our relationship was a gigantic puzzle - a huge existential and emotional quiz that, if I applied myself to enough, I would solve and gain the result of T...
You’ve never potty-trained a toddler, have you, Johanna? It’s like working as a ball boy at Wimbledon, but with shit. And it goes on for months. With people crying at you.
Yeah. They wake up a couple of times in the night, but, you know, that is the ineffable nature of the young! I said. This woman was bound to be impressed by what an engaged big sister I was. Also, my...
Would Jane Austen's characters have spent pages and pages discussing the relationships in their social circle if they'd been a bit more control of their own destinies? Would women fret themselves half...
Women wear heels because they think they make their legs look thinner.
When cynicism becomes the default language, playfulness and invention become impossible. Cynicism scours through a culture like bleach, wiping out millions of small, seedling ideas. Cynicism means you...
When Simone de Beauvoir said, One is not born a woman—one becomes one, she didn’t know the half of it. In
When I hear women talking about how their wedding is going to be/was the best day of their life, I can’t help but think, You just haven’t taken enough MDMA in a field at 3 a.m., love.
When Bowie yelps that he could do better than that, I hear another young person stuck somewhere, looking out of the window and imagining how much better they would invent the world, if they were just...
What art should be about,' they will say, 'is revealing exquisite and resonant truths about the human condition.' Well, to be honest - no, it shouldn’t. I mean, it can occasionally, if it wants to; bu...
Um sinal de fraqueza para uma celebridade homem é ser encontrado traindo a parceira, agindo de maneira grosseira com um funcionário, batendo o carro quando estava chapado e fora de si. Um sinal de fra...
This is what happens, when it feels like the weight of the world is crushing right down on you. You fear it’s going to change you forever. And you’re right. It is. It’s going to turn you into somethin...
This is Pat, he says, introducing me to a man who is also drunk. Because I’m Pat too! We’re two Pats! He’s a Protestant, he adds in a stagy whisper, but we’ve sorted it all out.
Things were going to happen to me last night that I did not like—and I stopped them. I have never prevented my own doom before. I have never stood in the path of certain unhappiness and told myself—lo...
Things happen in these kinds of towns that could never happen anywhere else—proud, poor kids make things happen with more heat, and intensity, and attack, than could ever be managed somewhere with ple...
They are all well-qualified members of the counter-culture. They are allowed to be here.
Their lives are the same for generations. There is no social upheaval that will really affect them. If you're comfortably middle-class, what's the worst a government policy could do? Ever? Tax you at...
The thing is, when you start smoking, you think you’ve bought a fun baby dragon. You think you’ve charmed a fabulous beast, as your toy, that will impress all that see it. And then, twenty years later...