This is a pretty unique opinion, I assume, because I think most people are probably masturbating in self-righteousness right now because for a second a slutty-seeming “dumb” girl wasn’t getting the media takedown she “deserves.”
Instead of calling stories whose main pull isn’t intellectual “cheap” — and trying to gatekeep people from their interests — accept that a massive amount of people are interested, and use the story as an opportunity.
“No one heard Hillary the day she showed cleavage.”
Send us your creepiest stories and we’ll publish them to celebrate Halloween.
I’ve never read anything about the digital age that has put me off believing the internet is the BFF of humanity, but this one might do it.
There are so many topics that are intellectually interesting and worthy of conversation but you can’t talk about them because people’s instantaneous backlash is “of course we know what the answer to this is, how dare you even ask?”
2. It’s so warm in your bed, and so cold in the rest of your house.
Fat shaming is difficult because there’s no argument against it.
“I just spent an hour lying on my bed watching Jimmy Fallon videos and licking grated carrot out of a bowl.”
A wedding now is more of a status symbol about having reached a life milestone and less of a celebration of any kind of love.