The narrative that important, authoritative female novelists ultimately owe their brilliance to men refuses to die…
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Sarah Seltzer
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And then the breakdown in the car after she finds out her necklace is fake and realizes Judah didn’t tell her about the offer from VIM. Like, that’s how it happens, at least for me. Infertility stuff happens and I’m fine, but it all comes out once something else bad happens. Read more
I loved how when she gets the news from the doctor, she doesn’t break down and cry or act devastated, she just sort of accepts it. I knew then, even before she reveals later that that was her 5th miscarriage, that it was something she’d experienced multiple times. That’s what it feels like - you can’t help but get… Read more
Yeah, that part really got me in the end too. In the beginning, her future descendant is comforting the viewer too - we all think everything will be okay because we see the “proof.” But in the end, our hopes and beliefs are just as crushed as Princess Carolyn’s are.
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To this day, my favorite (and in my mind, most devastating) Bojack episode was last season’s “That’s too much, man”, but damn, this season gave that episode a run for its money. At least for once, we get a genuinely positive season finale. Read more
The restaurant “Miss Carry” puns really hit home. Becasue that’s what it was like, these little things, people’s unrelated comments, that just dug into your loss in ways no one else knew was possible.
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The way the narrative was framed, with one of her future descendants narrating the episode, and then to find out it was figment of PC’s imagination, that she invented to comfort herself during a time of stress was so fucking heartbreaking. I think we all have these imaginary scenarios that work as coping mechanisms… Read more
In October, a new “community hub” for families is opening up in Los Angeles called Loom. Loom may not be open yet,…
No, only in America do women not get a proper maternity leave, and would have to sacrifice income to actually be with their newborn baby. It’s disgusting that this is how this country operates.
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ARE THERE NO PRISONS? ARE THERE NO WORK-HOUSES? Read more
Oh, you’ll still hear Republicans talking about “a culture of life” every time they make it harder for women to access reproductive health care. It makes me want to scream, “No, you don’t care about a culture of life because if you did, you would enact programs that protect pregnant women and the children once they’re… Read more
So right. Pregnant right now with my first and have been kept up at night thinking about what kind of world he will live in. This has end-stage capitalism stamped all over it. Read more
And let’s not even talk about how the current ruling generation have fucked this coming of age generation’s pensions, healthcare, housing, and quality of life while giving us a toxic planet to deal with before then expecting us to be grateful for that because at least there isn’t a war on. Read more
There’s no one like a 19th century novelist, enraged by the conditions of her world, to get you weeping and furious…
Early in my third trimester of pregnancy, I had a few episodes of itching at night. It was winter in New York, with…
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So someone wrote a novel about my college years. Das cool. Read more
Did you read the first sentence of the article? Because the author literally says that in the first sentence. Read more