“Anything you can say to an ex in a text is probably not worth the trouble of saying, despite the immediate gratification it might offer.”Tagged: Texting, Exes, Gratification
“The urge to text an ex can come from a variety of places: boredom, loneliness, horniness, thirst for attention, or even the inexplicable desire to create chaos in our own lives. These are valid urges, but why give your ex the unnecessary joy of satisfying them?”Tagged: Texting, Bored, Lonely, Horny
“When I come home from work, I crave easy oblivion: flashing alerts and endless feeds and shallow, undemanding forms of social validation.”Tagged: Technology, The Digital Age
“Why pick now to salt an old wound? But the JAP, as a figure, is a paragon of nuance, as complex as the Jewishness and womanhood she draws from.”Tagged: JAP, Jewish American Princess, stereotypes, Identity & Self
“The internet is vast, but it brings like minds together. At its best, it serves to unite kinky freaks, dissidents of oppressive regimes and sufferers of obscure diseases. At the same time, this tendency can serve the cruel or misinformed — giving shared language to Nazis and incels and other bleak…”Tagged: The internet, ASMR, Youtube, Subcultures