Difficult to describe exactly makes this 500-comment thread on parasocial pet relationships so diverting and delightful but you’l have to just trust me
“But the woman endeavoring to provide cultural analyses through the lens of another woman’s celebrity, for example, is not to be trusted for the very same reasons the male cultural critic is deemed trustworthy.”
Wasn’t intending to write for today, but sometimes, as all writers know, the idea possesses you and you must write until it comes out.
“It is exhausting, I know, to feel this way. It would feel so nice to try to sink into our individual safeties, whatever form they may take. But the body clings close to the grief our self-preserving mind…