the person who wrote this is the *personal health columnist* for the new york times
the responses to this remind me that this attitude towards eating is *so* familiar to many of us b/c it was/remains the dominant attitude towards "health" aka "maintaining your figure" for a certain generation of (mostly white) American women
i like to think of it as the "oh i quit smoking so i should probably eat like a bird and passive aggressively judge everyone else around me for their choices & aggressively judge my own family" approach to health
it feels SO outmoded today but there's a reason this woman is still the *health columnist* for the paper of record and has been since 1978
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The answers to this tweet are the answers to every other "passion economy" job query: it will use your love for the vocation as a means to exploit you; it will acquaint you with white (and male) privilege in ever-more alarming ways; it will disillusion you & radicalize you
Scandal, historically speaking, occurs when there is a rupture in the status quo and attempts to immediately repair or narrativize it fail. The monarchy has been able to absorb & withstand massive scandals in the past but I don't know if it has the fortitude to absorb this one
There are no new romances, no new babies, no deflection. There is only an ailing Great-Grandfather. I'm not trying to be callous; I'm just thinking of how these narratives actually function
Also worth thinking through the fact that Oprah is maybe the only nationally trusted "confessor" (I mean that rhetorically, Harry and Meghan had nothing to atone for) and there doesn't seem to be successor, at least not at this point
Wrote about the bewildering mix of excitement and hesitancy as we start to make plans (plans!) again for the not-so-far future — and making room for all the unexpected ways grief is going to come for us in the months to come:
How do I articulate unspeakable excitement to gather again *and* having no idea how my mind and body is going to react to a social life? The closest I can get = being so so so excited for the first day of school but we pull up to the front door & I can't get out of the car
Someone just commented that they feel ready to lick their friends, which is a perfect encapsulation of how weird we're all going to be for, like, at LEAST six months
Knowledge workers have embraced our own deskilling, and the subsequent de-valuing of our labor, and rebranded it as personal productivity. We have downloaded so many fucking apps and read so many life hacks, all in service of our continued debasement: