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I don’t suppose I can jump into this topic without the requisite disclaimer, so let’s get that out of the way: This is not a “gotcha” article or a “go contact all your Beautycounter friends and lambast them” push. If your friends are the kind who would be grateful for the information, then please share. Otherwise, it’s tricky. This involves people’s livelihoods, reputations, and relationships, and the whole point in sharing is so that we can love people better and live the Gospel more faithfully.

I’ve been promising to review this movie for years, and then it showed up on Prime and, well, here we are. It’s the “classy” mid-90s Jack Nicholson/Michelle Pfeiffer/James Spader werewolf movie, where the word “werewolf” is never uttered and there’s way less sexual psychodrama for a Mike Nichols movie than you might think. I mean, this dude made The Graduate! Closer! Carnal Knowledge! You’d really think Wolf would be sexier! It is not!

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Woman with a Parasol, by Claude Monet (1875)Every artist chases an impossible dream. Monet’s dream was to paint light and color as they appeared to him in nature, always moving, never fixed. This was his impossible dream, to capture the ever-shifting quality of natural light, or the ‘envelope’, an artistic principle which would become known as “impressionism.” In pursuit of this dream, Monet never stopped painting outdoors, often returning to the same place over and over again.

While I generally avoid arguing with women on the internet, this article is particularly terrible and worth commenting on purely as repudiation to the “longhouse.” First things first; DO NOT USE A.I. GIRLFRIENDS. Do NOT download the app, do not play with them just for fun; don’t touch this stuff. With that out of the way, Brittany Martinez advertises the article with “We Can't Compete With AI Girlfriends.” I found the article through a tweet responding to her, which basically summarizes the absurdity: if you can’t compete with “A.

Speaking of sleepless nights, the Late Night Talk Shows on network tv will soon have a woman host. Joan Rivers had a short lived talk show in 1986, then Lilly Singh in 2019. Now very soon we will have Taylor Tomlinson hosting the Late Night Show on CBS, after Stephen Colbert’s show. I like to think Colbert had a strong hand in this decision, he is a strong feminist. The idea that a woman can’t be a comedy talk show host—or that no one was good enough— is absurd, and I’ve been waiting for a long time for this.

My kink survey is at around 481,000 responses (137k cis men, 345k cis women, 6300 transwomen and 16549 transmen). You can see a breakdown of who took it here, and download most of the raw data I used in this blog post here. I often hear people saying that porn is full of depictions of smeared-mascara, aggressive blowjob stuff that appeals to men and trains them to treat women horribly. Women prefer gentle stuff - porn marketed towards women often focuses on soft light, good depth of field, gentle kissing and candles.

Confidence and Joy is a newsletter by Emily and Amelia Nagoski. Subscribe here. You can also follow Emily on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook! The thing I get asked about more than anything else is orgasm – specifically, women’s orgasms. How to have them, how to give them, how to have better ones, how to enjoy them more, why they are they way they are…. orgasms. They’re a Big Deal. In fact, this week’s episode of the Come As You Are Podcast is all about orgasms.

Pocket Observatory is no longer published on Substack. Come see our new home over at pocketobservatory.org. I was deeply skeptical aboutWonka, the Willy Wonka prequel directed by Paul King and starring Timothée Chalamet. I loathe prequels. I have been agnostic on the subject of Chalamet’s charisma. (Although, as I said on IG yesterday, I do kinda get it now. In a way that points to my own…um…issues?) I think King’s Paddington movies are enchanting.