Stuck on Repeats

[Adder]

Originally Posted by Fugee

Remember, it's Hank asking the question.

Moral of the story, do not get your foreplay from Hank.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by notcasesensitive

Um, both are good. Is either/or the only option?

Adder seemed to be implying as much, and he needs to know how wrong it is to ignore the clitoris. I mean he is now supposedly sexually active, so it's no longer hypothetical. If manual/oral stimulation DID HAVE to be limited to either/or, tell him.

Originally Posted by Adder

Well, that y'all from quite some time ago, anyway.

I read all the way to the end of it and realized it was Amy Sohn. Holy fuck. I've been trying to avoid hearing about her sex life since there was still a New York Press. Still impossible, apparently, and I have to read about how she is discovering being 30 something in Brooklyn with kids like no one ever did it before in the history of the world.

[Adder]

Originally Posted by ironweed

I read all the way to the end of it and realized it was Amy Sohn. Holy fuck. I've been trying to avoid hearing about her sex life since there was still a New York Press. Still impossible, apparently, and I have to read about how she is discovering being 30 something in Brooklyn with kids like no one ever did it before in the history of the world.

I had not heard of her before, but that's basically what a friend who is 30 something and a parent in Brooklyn said.

Apparently she is rather disliked.

Originally Posted by Adder

I had not heard of her before, but that's basically what a friend who is 30 something and a parent in Brooklyn said.

Apparently she is rather disliked.

I have generally managed to avoid thinking about her, but yes, she is disliked, because -- although in real life I am sure she is a wonderful beautiful person -- in her writing she generally comes across as narcissistic, selfish, shallow and loathesome.

I of course did loathesome things when I was in my 30s in Brooklyn, like everybody else. But we knew we were just being assholes, and it did not even occur to me to try to rationalize my behavior as some sort of zeitgeist for a lost generation of privileged white people coming to grips with their new lives as parents of young children.

Edited to add: BUT thank you for posting, because the comments thread is pretty top notch.

Amy, FYI it's not regression…you've always been an asshole. Also, everyone with even the slightest bit of knowledge about "Brownstone Brooklyn" knows that 75% of everything you write is complete bullshit. In the 90s you were the shittier version(if that possible) of Candace Bushnell; now you are like a creepy, old distant cousin to Lena Dunham that follows her around at a family party shouting "OMG I'm just like you!" and "I've been living in Brooklyn for years!"

[Flinty_McFlint]

Originally Posted by notcasesensitive

Um, both are good. Is either/or the only option?

You have always been my favorite.

[LessinSF]

SCOTUS crack - http://www.scotusblog.com/2012/07/we...o1gng.facebook .

[Not Bob]

Originally Posted by ironweed

I read all the way to the end of it and realized it was Amy Sohn. Holy fuck. I've been trying to avoid hearing about her sex life since there was still a New York Press. Still impossible, apparently, and I have to read about how she is discovering being 30 something in Brooklyn with kids like no one ever did it before in the history of the world.

I kind of liked Run Catch Kiss, though I haven't read her later stuff.

Every generation thinks that they are unique, no? Because their new (to them) experiences are, well, new (to them). Even if Flaubert got there first, it has got be seem a bit strange and unique when a (you thought) happily married friend tells you that she went to third base with some dude on the L train because she was bored out of her mind by domesticity.

I mean, it may have happened in a Cheever story, but if I saw one of my neighbors in my swimming pool en route through all of Rye's pools, I may still post about it on my blog as a symbol of, you know, *something* profound and unique about life in the conformist Pleasant Valley/Stepford-y modern suburb, right?

[taxwonk]

Originally Posted by ironweed

I read all the way to the end of it and realized it was Amy Sohn. Holy fuck. I've been trying to avoid hearing about her sex life since there was still a New York Press. Still impossible, apparently, and I have to read about how she is discovering being 30 something in Brooklyn with kids like no one ever did it before in the history of the world.

Actually, I read more about other peoples' sex lives than hers in this piece. For Sohn, that's real progress.

[taxwonk]

Originally Posted by LessinSF

SCOTUS crack - http://www.scotusblog.com/2012/07/we...o1gng.facebook .

You've actually managed to post sopmething more tedious to read than a SCOTUS opinion itself.

Wherever you are, it's clearly cocktail time.

[bold_n_brazen]

Originally Posted by ironweed

-- in her writing she generally comes across as narcissistic, selfish, shallow and loathesome.

I just really wanted to see that part again.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally Posted by notcasesensitive

Um, both are good. Is either/or the only option?

Every girl just wants 30-seconds of piston pounding deep dicking. Trust me on this one.

Originally Posted by Not Bob

I kind of liked Run Catch Kiss, though I haven't read her later stuff.

Every generation thinks that they are unique, no? Because their new (to them) experiences are, well, new (to them). Even if Flaubert got there first, it has got be seem a bit strange and unique when a (you thought) happily married friend tells you that she went to third base with some dude on the L train because she was bored out of her mind by domesticity.

I mean, it may have happened in a Cheever story, but if I saw one of my neighbors in my swimming pool en route through all of Rye's pools, I may still post about it on my blog as a symbol of, you know, *something* profound and unique about life in the conformist Pleasant Valley/Stepford-y modern suburb, right?

Yes, but I will go out on a limb and suggest that you would probably do it in a way that didn't make you and everyone else involved seem like a totally repulsive and hateful asshole.

Originally Posted by bold_n_brazen

I just really wanted to see that part again.

For the irony? But I copped to being an asshole right there in my post ...

Originally Posted by taxwonk

Actually, I read more about other peoples' sex lives than hers in this piece. For Sohn, that's real progress.

I am not sure that her fake tales of other people's joyless desperate hookups are any more fun to read than her fake tales of her own, but maybe.