Has it already been a week since we saw the first painting of women gleefully murdering men? How time does its time-y thing.
“Apply something cold to the top of your uterus and something warm to the bottom. Like the most basic of single celled organisms, the baby will instinctually move towards the warmth, unless they’ve already succumbed to reverse psychology, in which case, try the other way around.”
Workout goals: DEMONA FROM GARGOYLES
“A fat woman being loved and getting laid”
“Something has gone terribly wrong with the earth’s orbit, but modern gender roles are still pretty much intact”: How to tell if you are in a soft science fiction novel.
Nicole Chung on friendship and race:
“At first it’s probably not obvious that you are their only nonwhite friend. Maybe you can’t remember them hanging out with any people of color except for you, but you don’t know all the people they know.”
Turns out there are only like nineteen possible feelings and I found them all. Goodbye.
I’ve shared a lot of The Toast on my Facebook, but Nicole Callahan’s piece received more acclaim and inspired more discussion from my friends than anything else in recent memory (from The Toast and otherwise).
As a person of color and an immigrant who has predominantly lived around and loved white people as friends and more than friends, Nicole’s writing got me like Junot Diaz and Jhumpa Lahiri got me. It’s given me a lot to think about and shit, I thought I would have figured this all out by now. I’ve been out of college for years and I’ve got a full time job! I write recommendation letters for white people!
It reminds me that figuring myself out is forever. Fortunately, my love for this place is also forever.
I don’t think we ever completely figure it out. I’m really happy to hear that the essay meant something to you, though. Thank you!
The combo of the Toast’s comments moderation system and social media presence is the best thing, because we don’t have to deal with morons and trolls in the comments but we still get to mock them when they say dumb stuff on Facebook and Twitter. Truly the best of both worlds.
Case in point: @SeanLind describes himself as “Ideaman, Problem Solver” on his twitter bio.
I don't think we ever completely figure it out. I'm really happy to hear that the essay meant something to you, though. Thank you!
Ah, that must be why I found it cute or funny, despite being a guy. I don't have Ideaman's super powers to enable me to detect when things should offend.
Dang, somehow my computer has actually gotten WORSE at reading the Toast while I’m at work, and so now it’s only on Saturdays when I can go back and read things, and I am finally beginning to accept the merits of Toast Points.
Yeah, the Toast crashes my work browser pretty frequently. I mean, it is internet explorer, so I’m not really surprised, and I’ve learned to live with it. What really puts me off reading the Toast at work (and sometimes at home) is the sudden attack of noisy ads, and clicking on articles only to be redirected to advertising sites (which are usually blocked by my workplace network anyway). These are also the reasons why I hardly ever share Toast articles. Which, actually, is probably for the best, since I’d end up alienating everyone I know by sending constant “read this read this read this” emails.
we’re going to be working on addressing this in the coming weeks/months — ads are critical for the site’s existence, but we will be doing what we can to improve user experience.
The fact that there are ads is fine and necessary — y’all need to pay yourselves, pay writers, etc. It’s just that for some reason Toast ads in particular crash my entire system. (I’m a Mac, using Firefox.) I have better luck on my phone, though!
Dang, somehow my computer has actually gotten WORSE at reading the Toast while I'm at work, and so now it's only on Saturdays when I can go back and read things, and I am finally beginning to accept the merits of Toast Points.