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If you want to date your son's high school best friend, I guess that's your prerogative. But...why are you telling your story to the Daily Mail? More »
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"Maybe I'm prim as hell, but I don't think opening up sexually, constantly=funny. So sick of over-sharers being called 'hilarious.' I'm sorry. I just hate when people think their personal catharsis is funny, audacious entertainment."-Mindy Kaling, via Twitter. [MindyKaling] More »
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For some time now, I've harbored the suspicion that "oversharing" (2008's word of the year!) was a sort of insidious code: More »
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The news may be full of prominent men who couldn't keep it in their pants — but one Wall Street Journal writer thinks it's women's lips that need zipping. Because the real problem with modern marriage is the female overshare. More »
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I decided, a few months ago, that it would take something truly outrageous to make me give any more press to unhappy professional oversharer and exhibitionist Liz Jones. This is what did it: More »
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Today's Wall Street Journal has a pretty simplistic take on how men and women talk about their relationship problems. But underneath the annoying Mars/Venus language, does the Journal have some (sort of) good advice about oversharing? More »
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Today, Salon's Rebecca Traister explores the phenomenon of female writers' "graphic" accounts of the "messy realities of their bodies." Wait: Did someone say our name?! More »
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In an interesting essay in the Sydney Morning Herald, Emily Maguire argues that not only have we lost our capacity for discretion, we resent it. Is oversharing the new etiquette? More »
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There are few disappointments in life as reliable as the New York Times' Modern Love. If there's a point to publishing the dull, self-conscious relationship redux essays of anti-social nincompoops, I have yet to discover it. When it's not about how mommy used to be slutty and had a lot of tattoos before lasering them off in marriage, it's an outline of how rape (by a man) engendered a lifelong hatred of women, or an elegy for that simpler time when a dashing Australian cyberstalker paid you all his attention. More »
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Did you catch yesterday's "Modern Love" piece in the NY Times? As we already know, the column might as well be titled "Neurosis And Narcissism," but even so, it can still leave you scratching your head and wondering what else you could have done with those lost five minutes. I daresay the latest dispatch is supposed to say something about modern masculinity, but per usual it says more about modern self-absorption. It's this guy reminiscing about his wife giving birth — the baby came unexpectedly and she had the baby at home — which, for some reason, ends up being all about him. More »
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The New York Times' "Modern Love" column is frequently irritating, silly, and asinine. But it's not often that one of these gut-spillers leaves one feeling actually disturbed, vaguely dirty, desperate to talk to a therapist and maybe call social services. Such was the reaction elicited by Sunday's "The Tiny Hand That Robs The Cradle," a mother's rant against the 8-year-old girl who scrawls that she "hearts" the author's son in the girl's bathroom. The incident prompts an intense, creepy oedipal outpouring against the anonymous little hussy. Oh, and did we mention the author is an elementary school teacher? And it only gets worse. More »
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