Coupling Round-up
Some quick reactions to Lori Gottlieb’s article in the Atlantic Monthly about settling for Mr. Meh:
- This sounds like Phyllis Schlafly
- I don’t know why I’m bothering with this article, but she seems to confuse “settling” with “not marrying a flake”
- Didn’t we find out later on in the series that Barry cheated on Rachel?
- Maybe men, like women, don’t want to be settled for?
- Maybe if your idea of settling is marrying the guy with the unfortunate nose, maybe you’re actually a bitch (or, settling is different than accepting a person’s faults, that would be love)
- Gottlieb is just lamenting the one that got away and the rest of us have to pay for it
Some quick reactions to Steve Almond’s article in Best of Life, where he realizes that sluts are people too (because they have fathers):
- Christ. What an asshole.
Jezebel also had some thoughts
And here is a heart-breaking, yet completely on-point look at the term “dating” from the NY Times Modern Love section, that I wish I had written.
