The Writing Men Want You To Know They've Been Very, Very Bad Boys
As you know, men be writin’.
xoJane Publishes Terrible Article By a Woman Who’s Glad Her Friend Died, Then Deletes Her Byline
On Thursday, xoJane published an essay titled “My Former Friend’s Death Was a Blessing,” which outlines a series of petty grievances with a woman who, the piece reveals, later committed suicide. It’s a strange and deeply insensitive piece; simultaneously judgmental, self-absorbed, and unreflective, particularly since…
We Need a New Word for Survivor
I recently received a text from my dead brother’s girlfriend. I still think of Dana as Junior’s girlfriend even though it’s been 15 years since he was killed. We’re not close anymore, but her daughter, who was conceived the week before he died, is my niece; we remain connected through the trauma we shared.
Lindsay Lohan Published An Essay About 9/11, Plenty of Other Things, to Instagram
On Sunday, September 13, 2015, actress and wedding guest Lindsay Lohan published a 248-word essay on Instagram about the events of Tuesday, September 11, 2001. Because many people share stories about how the events of 9/11 affected them, that Lohan shared hers isn’t surprising. What’s notable is that the story is a…
She Said/She Said: Joyce Maynard's Daughter Takes 'Modern Love' Revenge
Over the summer, professional sharer Joyce Maynard, well, shared an essay about her uncommunicative daughter. Ironically, now her daughter writes a rebuttal from her perspective. Because that's how families communicate, right?
Your Daughter's Left For College? Cry Me A River
This column's title pretty much says it all: "My Universe Loses a Star". The Drama (or lack thereof) of the empty nester leaves us thinking, rather ungenerously, "And we should care because...?"
This Week In "Modern Love": Cancer, Drugs, & Cads
I've stopped trying to define how the New York Times defines "love," modern or otherwise. Cause it's conspicuously absent from the latest "Modern Love" essay, "The Kindness, and Xanax, of Strangers." Or is it?!
Modern Love: Deadbeats Or Sugar Daddies, Our Only Choices!
"I still would love to experience life as a pampered princess, at least once." Alas, for "the accidental breadwinner," it's not to be!
"Modern Love" Takes On The Mother In Law Cliché... And Shatters It
The "Modern Love" column, as we know all too well, can be an exercise in modern narcissism. But this week's essay, Diane Nottle's "Faithful to His Memory, and His Mother" is different: the story of a woman who, after the death of the love of her life, forms a lasting bond with his mother that ends up being a far…
Frigidity & Stained Glass Windows: 'Modern Love' Continues To Prove Unhappy Families All Same, Dull
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…
'Modern Love' Tackles The Drama Of The Self-Absorbed Dad
Did you catch yesterday's "
Modern Love" piece in the ? 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…
Oedipus Rx: Or, The Single Creepiest "Modern Love" Essay Ever
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 "," a mother's rant…
