Darvo? Not really a word but it’s a thing.

Open phone. See if new email. Check here. Check YouTube subs. Adds up to less than an hour a day. Unless I feel like sudoku. Thats my time sink.

I roll mine like a little sausage. They don’t wrinkle and it’s fast. Also I suck at folding.

I’m sure they’re making that entirely up. No one is a super star on their first birth, let alone someone who is physically not finished developing.

I think one other thing that’s super important to add on to this list is “desirable partners.” The current generation of young men have leaned hard into the alt-right pipeline while young women have become more left leaning as their rights are being threatened loudly and chipped away at globally.

And guess who the fathers to those teen pregnancies are? It’s men over 20. Adding a layer of ick to what he’s lamenting.

Tbh I think they really only slowed down because it was the absolute dead of winter.

Glad I’m not alone, but also sad

I wash my clothes after I wear them, each time. Unwashed clothes get a certain funk, even if they look clean. You can always tell when people do this. It’s a little metallic.

I keep it together because a lot of young people are around me. But on the inside I’ve kind of given up on anything good and dread the next fucking crazy thing to come up.

I work with a dude who wears a D.A.R.E. shirt every day and he’s absolutely on drugs lol.

Anecdotally, last week I (middle aged lady) was approached by two strange men. One tried to grab me outside my work site, and one told me how lovely I was and asked for my number (in target). It’s much, much worse for young women. It’s not manufactured, unlike the doubt of women’s lived experience seems to be.

Dating and already having nearly grown children in your thirties is also weird. People assume you aren’t allowed to have standards (single moms are for fun) or to raise their small children for them (mommy shopping). Or you are looking for a replacement parent (absolutely not). It’s…something.

Cool beans.

Yeah. Can’t imagine why women are being more selective of their male partners at all. This is nightmare fuel.