Would you pay to talk to a man? Would you like to see Jalen Brunson on SVU? Would you like to watch Greta Lee portray an evil iPad? “Maybe,” “yes,” and “okay, sure.” |
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Jalen Brunson Is Going to Be So Good On SVU People were tweeting this week almost like they’d been drunk for five days straight.
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We’re off Friday for Juneteenth so Becca Schuh harvested tweets early this week. As always, a peek into her timeline is equal parts illuminating, disturbing, and affirming.
Welcome to New Yorkkk! The absolutely feral and unhinged vibes generated by the Knicks win were palpable online. We long for a return to Hale & Hearty Soups, people lined up to see a mayonnaise vending machine, and a lone soldier wages war against a Thai restaurant for flooding his tote bag.
Zohran may be mayor, but Jalen is president of NYC.
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And as president, his first act will be playing a psychosexual perp beyond our wildest nightmares on SVU. |
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It’s really Summer of Sports in NYC. |
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Everyone has a different vision of what their return to an ideal New York looks like and I think that’s beautiful. |
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Quick question … Israel in “five” what? |
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Once again, Line Culture (as I’ve come to call it) must be stopped!!! |
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Let’s weigh in on Shannon’s dilemma? |
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I love that being incredibly online has its own language that has infiltrated society like this. |
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I’ll be seated in a movie theater this Sunday for the fifth installment of the Toy Story franchise, because there are no other kids’ movies out right now and we already saw Stop! That! Train! (perfect, no notes). If you were hoping for the toys to vanquish the evil iPad played with admirable zeal by Greta Lee, you will be disappointed, writes Alison Willmore.
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Pixar is based right across the bay from San Francisco and was born out of the promise that computer animation can be just as emotionally rich and as creatively ambitious as the hand-drawn stuff. Fair to say it was always going to be conflicted over whether devices (a word Jessie spits like a slur) are harming us. Back in the animation pioneer’s heyday, it offered up a futuristic portrait of humanity reduced to boneless adult babies sucking on straws while watching screens in WALL-E. But it also counterbalanced that image with a romance between two robots who were as expressive and enchanting as the Old Hollywood stars they watched on a battered VHS. The way that Toy Story 5 presents our impending dystopia of compulsive screen time, with Jessie glumly surveying a suburban landscape of windows aglow with phones and computers that everyone’s silently staring at, doesn’t feel like the work of a company wrestling with its own relationship with technology and how it’s changing the world.
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I’ll adjust my expectations accordingly! |
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Photo-Illustration: The Cut; Photos Getty Images |
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What do you look for in a therapist? For most people who’ve been socialized as women, the default is a female therapist, and luckily those are pretty easy to find. But, as my brilliant friend Meaghan O’Connell writes, some women find that doing therapy with a man can help them work through their issues in productively different ways, like having to explain things that a female therapist might implicitly understand. And if, for instance, you grew up feeling like you had to impress or seduce every man you meet (couldn’t be me! ahahaha), working with a male therapist might be especially helpful.
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Kara, a 41-year-old content strategist, spent about two years in therapy with a man I’ll call Allen in New York City, where she said that her “daddy issues got used” to similar, positive effect. She describes Allen as a bald, nerdy, warmly intellectual man who was disarmingly “un-therapist-y.” She says he was good at neutralizing his gender and it didn’t feel very present in the room.
On the other hand, Kara said she’s been working on her desire to “seem impressive” to people she respects, especially men. So Allen’s gender brought this desire to the surface in a useful way. She was able to act out and interrogate that impulse in the safe confines of his office. “Looking back,” she says, “he was deftly withholding at times. He would be kind without indulging my need for validation. He was very good at holding a line.”
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Hmmm! Lots of food for thought here. I’m sticking with my “older, wiser version of me” therapist for now, though. |
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A weekly dispatch on the cultural discourse. |
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https://link.nymag.com/oc/60bf85689b7a136e4b473b24ripel.5w0/1236cf60
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