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The Dating Game: End Game (Or Ten Ways Not to Dump Someone)
There's nothing like trying to create a 10-point guide of how not to be a disrespectful immature jerk when dumping someone to make me think of the far more than 10 disrespectful immature jerks who have dumped me. My pain will hopefully be someone else's gain.
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The Dating Game: Say My Name
When I stopped being a "girl," and stopped dating "boys," it felt weirder and weirder to be somebody's "girlfriend" or have a "boyfriend." But, man, do people hate having to alter their vocabulary to match your relationship.
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The Dating Game: Coming Online
I know that there’s a book called The Rules, but the real truth about dating is that there aren’t any.
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Political InQueery: The Annual Vote for Change
Maybe the summer only seems quiet, free from the stresses of the holiday season, the doldrums of mid-winter, and the frantic fervor of spring. Maybe this is when we're lulled into complicity and we acquiesce into a false sense of comfort. Because fall is just around the corner, and it's not just... Read more »
Political InQueery: Close Encounters of the First Lady Kind
The most boring exhibit I ever saw in any of the Washington, DC Smithsonian museums was, without a doubt, the gowns of the First Ladies. Oh, how I could not have cared less. But my mother preened over them like she'd just found some rare bird egg sitting under her window. Helen Taft? Grace Coolidge... Read more »
Douchebag Decree: Dr. Maria New, In Utero Gender Norm Enforcer!
You know how in Gattaca doctors used hormones to control the personalities of fetuses, ensuring a creepily uniform generation of “perfect” people, like the guy who plays Ethan Hawke’s brother in the movie? Well, now there is a doctor who is attempting to do something similar by eradicating... Read more »
Political InQueery: She's Got to Be Something, Right?
Regardless of which person the President would have selected for Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, I would have been interested. I am curious to see what floats around in the ether (read: debate) around present-day nominees, and given the interest by many in the makeup of the... Read more »
TelevIsm: The Erasure of Heylia and Conrad on Weeds
Weeds in its first three seasons was an excellent show—it was well-written, clever satire with multifaceted and funny characters. Its send-up of the rhetoric and culture of suburbia was funny and pointed and coherent. Celia was a hilarious and capable antagonist, and I loved that the older het... Read more »
Mad World: When advertisers stop being polite and start getting real
We had a conversation in the comments section on another Mad World post a while back regarding ads that use real people instead of actors to sell their products. Do these people get paid? Are they actually just actors in disguise? Why are we strangely... Read more »
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