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Let's Suffer Better Together: Graciousness Over Etiquette, and Talking To Someone In The Same Room As You
I’m out of the professional advice game at present, but I recently fielded a relatively low-stakes question from a friend about referents that…
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Mansfield Park, Part IV
Previously: Mansfield Park, Part I. “She looks like she’s never had a glass of milk in her LIFE.”
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Some Thoughts on Elaine May's "A New Leaf"
erectile dysfunction but for killing your wife
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Return to Pervert Ethnography Island: The Cuckold, The Gooner, The Fujoshi
A round table on virtuous gooning and erotic realism
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Cassius Only Has One Suggestion For Everything
I’ve been rereading Julius Caesar this week in a fit of nostalgia. Two things have struck me on this go-round which did not always stick out to me…
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On Sleeping With Many Normal Men
I have a great deal in common with the men I sleep with. For example, we both want to be here; we both want to do this.
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You're In A Lesbian Pulp Novel From 1958! What's Distracting You From Work And Causing Your Heterosexual Coworker Nora To Glance Curiously…
The Chatner has been astonishingly ill and in bed all week.
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A newsletter about rejiggered classics, transmasculine underpinnings of the plucky heroine, and the failure-limits of graciousness, from table manners to family estrangement.
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