Just because inequality is not as dire does not mean that it is not felt. - Anne Helen Petersen

The story of middle-class ascendancy is all about individual hard work. And no one wants to lose any of the hard-won benefits of that work, which helps explain the popularity of the Personal Responsibility Crusade amongst boomers and their parents. Members of the middle class were so freaked out by seeping economic instability that they started pulling the ladder up behind them.

few things enrage, confuse, and repulse audiences more than the suggestion that the primary visual purpose of a woman’s body is not the pleasure of men.

Look squarely at your fatigue and remind yourself that there’s no app, or self-help book, or meal-planning scheme that can lift it.