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Rock and a Hard Place
This will be the last thing I write about the Facebook page “12 Year Old Sluts,” unless, of course, it’s taken down, in which case I will crow from the rooftops. This time, for Role/Reboot, I didn’t...
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Great Textpectations
I so wanted to officially name this essay “Great Textpectations” but my (excellent) Role/Reboot editor vetoed in favor of something that I’m sure will drive more search traffic. I would have done it up...
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Twenty Five
Yesterday was my birthday. In real life, it played out beautifully with appearances by all my favorite people, delicious food, some sort of passion fruit cocktail, yoga, a house full of people who...
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Apps for Bootycalling?
This week for Role/Reboot I “reviewed” a new Facebook app called “Bang with Friends.” In theory, it’s a discreet way to figure out which of your friends are down to hook up with you. In practice, I...
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Win Something Pretty?
Dear readers/friends/random strangers who searched one of these terms to get here, “giant muscle dominates skinny bitch,” “Patrick Wilson doesn’t know his dad,” or “8 pm,” I’m so glad you found me....
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Everything is About Everything: New Media + Old Media
For book club, we recently read Robin Sloan’s Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore, a modern, bromantic, technologically-obsessed, Google-worshipping fantasy adventure in which millennial heroes and...
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Guest Post: The Problem With “Blurred Lines”
Remember when Thicke looked like this? Guest post today from my girl Bri, a fellow Chicago friend who had an epiphany about the controversial Robin Thicke song “Blurred Lines.” Background: Thicke’s...
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5 Myths (and now a 6th!)
For my new piece on Role/Reboot, I listed five of the most common responses I hear from street harassment defenders. “It’s because you’re pretty” (plus obvious wardrobe corollary, “It’s because you’re...
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How to Have a Conversation on a First Date (Or: How Not to Have a...
Today’s Role/Reboot post comes to you inspired by the following Facebook exchange: I realized after I posted this that it might not be a gendered issue, but I don’t date women, so I really have no...
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Facebook thinks that I think I need to lose weight.
Extra Inches! Simple Rules! Generic “Women’s Magazine”, “shocking” report, amazing diet supplement! “Surprise him with a new body!” “Weird” fruit! “Holy grail of weight loss!” And yes, I...
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