Inspired by someone super-duper popular — This post was inspired by someone super duper popular, who is having a mixed baby. Congratulations! I won’t name them by name because I don’t know if they want to be named, but you probably know who it is if you spend any time on Medium at all. But this…

So stop asking what “our grandmas did” — Whenever the divorce rate comes up, some genius asks “what our grandparents did.” It’s simple: They stayed in shitty relationships for too long. If a long-lasting marriage depends on one person dealing with being cheated on, having fewer career prospects, or losing autonomy over one’s body, then maybe it’s good…

a reflection, a meditation. — Americans are not allowed to grieve. We have a moment of silence, and someone tells us we must keep shopping, or our way of life with collapse. We must shop with money we do not have. We can lower some flags, but we have to stifle our tears. We can…

I thought they’d finally perfect heterosexual, penetrative sex and show us all what went wrong. I thought it would be beautiful, synchronized, like watching an old couple dancing with one another. I thought they would know each other’s bodies in a holy, miraculous way. I envisioned a kind of electric…

And why don’t people believe me when I say something is made up? — Fiction and Medium. Medium and fiction. It’s a gray area. Some of my best stories are fictional, and I use the fiction tag and have entire publications devoted to the unreal. And yet, many people on here seem to shy away from fiction. It seems like only certain types of…

Who cares about Adam? He finds himself the third wheel, unwilling to use a condom or get a vasectomy, so he’s out. Lilith and Eve have found themselves a nice corner where they teach one another softness and strength, all without the fear of pregnancy, the demands of a man-child. …

He just became unbearable. — “Crypto bros are saying that all the girls will be sorry once they are loaded. They are getting rid of their girlfriends so they have more money for HODLing, and some girlfriends and wives are complaining that their boyfriends or husbands are losing their savings, their rent money, and gambling…

We were gaslit. Let’s reclaim. — In November 2016, when we cried that this would mean a reversal of our rights, there were a lot of people who were laughing at our tears. They told us we were overreacting, maybe not to be so emotional, and that we were blowing things out of proportion. Remember the…

I mean, why bother, really? — Oh, okay. So I’m losing my right to abortion in this country, which means people who can get pregnant are about to be raped and subjugated to knock them up and keep them in line. In times like these, it can be easy to fall into despair. But you know…