A List Of People I Am Mad At, 2/14/25

This is a weekly (sometimes) list of people I am mad at. This is the list for February 14, 2025

1. A few weekends ago, a guy at a party told me I was a “hipster Indian woman” for being divorced. I guess what bothered me is that, technically, he was correct.

2. They banned PornHub in Florida but I can’t think of a group of people who need it more.

3. On January 22nd, my dad told me he wanted to do No Buy January. He had already purchased and returned seven shirts from Winners inside a span of two and a half weeks.

4. Ben Affleck.

5. It was Martin Luther King Day a little while ago, which marked the one year anniversary of the time I took a yoga class on MLK Day and the instructor made us listen to the entirety of his “I Have a Dream” speech while we were in child’s pose.

6. I told my dad about a new assignment I’m working on and he asked me if it would be “a hit job.”

7. Do you know how long that speech is? It’s seventeen minutes. It’s seventeen minutes long.

8. My mother asked me to see Baby Girl with her and didn’t understand why I started screaming and backing away.

9. I kept thinking it was some weird remix of his speech. Like someone used it in a song and eventually the beat was going to drop.

10. I’m not upset that we had to listen to it. It’s just a long time to be in child’s pose to begin with. Seventeen minutes of me curled around my knees, listening to “I Have a Dream”???? My hips started to hurt!

11. Yes, obviously the entire class was white.

Happy Valentine’s Day: I’m writing a divorce advice column for Slate, and this spring I’m going on tour for SUCKER PUNCH in Canada and the US. Come find me and come say hi. If you’re stateside and use this preorder link, you’ll get some very cute stickers of brass knuckles and Sylvia Plaths.

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Keep your stick on the ice.