On Ask Polly: My Best Friend Is In Love With My Sister!
@Niko Bellic you are right about proximal distance being vitally important, but only for a certain caliber of relationship. You wildly underestimate the capacity for people to maintain relationships remotely. I'd say it's demonstrably true that they can, and they have since before modern telecommunication came into common usage.
I mean honestly, deeming human relationships meaningless and unimportant because their initial circumstances couldn't be maintained seems like a really awful way to live.
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On Ask Polly: My Best Friend Is In Love With My Sister!
@Niko Bellic all these damned kids and their irrational desire to "be close to people"
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On Are You As Good At Twitter As A Teen?
Bully to Helena Fitzgerald and TNI for publishing 1,591 words re: the implications of a twitter meme, the only quibble I have is that the regression they attribute to twitter is inherited, primarily from forum cultures where teenage male misanthropy curdles in communal pots and adults act like children out of boredom. Those have been around for years and have produced much in the way of think piece writing (Adrian Chen's Reddit reportage being a recent example).
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On Ask Polly: Only Black Men Like Me, But I Don't Like Black Men
I'm pretty far removed from SLAS in terms of demographics but I know how she feels, I think. I'm bi, is the thing, but I was abused by a man when I was a child and I have this great fear of them now, I have pushed from my mind the thought of being with a man. just typing those words repulses me.
I think Polly is on-point here, I think LSAS should interrogate why it is she came to this point and what she wants out of herself. When you've suffered profound abuse people will tell you that you've been strong and tough and a survivor and it all feels untrue, because you've already internalized the "lesson" of trauma and you feel that, if you had been different in some essential way, things would have been different for you. I have failed through my life in many ways because I wish myself punished for the things that were done to me. And I've punished people who would love me because of the things about myself they remind me of. I suspect LSAS is similar in that way.
I think Polly's right, and that LS should stick with therapy, I mean really stick to it, throw herself into it, and defy herself whenever possible. Don't turn out like I did, or you'll waste away.
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On A Brief, Opinionated History of Taxes in America
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On A Brief, Opinionated History of Taxes in America
You know what's REALLY fun is explaining marginal taxation to people freaking out about changes to brackets.
Also it really really can't be understated what a shitshow the Bush tax cuts were / are. Fucking hell.
Also why is the Awl getting its cues from Reason magazine these days
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On Skin Cancer Survivors Still Enjoy Tanning Beds
Aren't tanning beds addictive, to some degree? Or am I thinking of chapstick?
Use sunscreen, you shitlords
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On The Entire History Of Human Communication Culminates In This Moment
@Danzig! You're right, I got my stories mixed up
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On The Entire History Of Human Communication Culminates In This Moment
Wood Thrush is/was Mobutu Sese Seko of Gawker fame, if that's not clear.
Remember your first internet forum? Remember the people everyone seemed to believe were cool? Remember how sad and venal they were in retrospect? Remember how some of them clearly suffered from intense mental illness? Imagine if Katie Natoupolis endlessly fawned over them on a major website.
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On Man Finds Album Underwhelming
Where was this guy when Is This It came out, I wonder
$5 says he loved the shit out of it.