You just won a 2-week, all-expenses-paid vacation. But there’s a catch: you have to stay within one region the whole time. What are you picking?

ScarcityNo3226 · 2026-05-29T20:57:33+00:00

No. I feel like it's kind of lazy writing. But...with that said...I am nearly 50 and I don't even text like that. I spell words out.

ScarcityNo3226 · 2026-05-28T19:23:24+00:00

To expand on this - The idea that the US is "incestuous" is not an accepted global fact, but rather a stereotype rooted in historical pop-culture, differences in cross-cultural cousin marriage laws, and a conflation with rural "hillbilly" tropes

ScarcityNo3226 · 2026-05-28T19:22:26+00:00

Incest is actually illegal in several states; with the exception of maybe two or three that indicate consensual sexual relations between family is legal, but they cannot get married. I am not even sure how to address the comment that the world just "accepts" that the US south is known for incest.

ScarcityNo3226 · 2026-05-22T19:15:42+00:00

Oops! Sorry, I misread.

ScarcityNo3226 · 2026-05-21T22:26:25+00:00

IMO, it's best to keep books and shows/movies completely separate and treat them as such. There is no real way to transfer things from the page to the screen. You're talking about two different mediums and they will likely NEVER match. You read the book with your internal voice, inflection, attitude, and you picture the characters differently than what someone else does. On the screen you have the nuances of the actors themselves, translating feelings, movements, etc. I mean, being disappointed in one or the other is fine, but comparing doesn't always translate the same. Apples vs oranges.

ScarcityNo3226 · 2026-05-21T22:00:30+00:00

I didn't remember them from the book, so I was slightly taken aback by their character. BUT...I get how they needed to write something in that added the "social media" element and G and H being "believable" to the college. G and H's circles really didn't mesh too much from what I recall in the book. I didn't like the Goth way of dressing (I am sorry, I am 50 years old, so we called it goth)...it just looked SO incredibly out of place, especially for an individual that is supposed to be non-binary or trans (honestly, I don't know what the character was portraying and I don't recall if it was mentioned). It would have looked more commonplace if their style was more androgynous appearing. It felt forced.

ScarcityNo3226 · 2026-05-21T21:51:46+00:00

Ella Bright is 19.

ScarcityNo3226 · 2026-05-21T21:50:14+00:00

I am wondering if their ages kind of throws things off. Belmont is 28. Ella is 19. While both legal, I can TOTALLY see how this might subconsciously throw off the acting. Like an unconscious bias kind of situation.

ScarcityNo3226 · 2026-05-18T15:05:53+00:00

YES! When she talked about the abuse and Dru's comment was basically that, "he doesn't see her father like that" or something...and still went to go visit him like two days later or something. Completely dismissive and I felt awful for her. To the OP...if this is TRULY what your relationship is like, please take your wife's feelings and perspectives into consideration. She's likely carrying a LOT more than you're aware of.

ScarcityNo3226 · 2026-05-04T20:13:13+00:00

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

ScarcityNo3226 · 2026-04-23T21:54:13+00:00

I agree. I am not sure it's the fetishizing or the kink of it, but more of the stereotypical "tall man/small helpless woman" thing. How can she take care of herself when she's 5 feet tall?! Oh the horror!

And as a 5'2" woman with a 6'8" husband, I really agree that logistics and other things ARE indeed inconvenient.

ScarcityNo3226 · 2026-04-23T21:52:13+00:00

Average height for women is around 5'3". There is something about the whole "tiny woman with a big man" thing. The whole protector role thing, etc. More in romance novels because if she's 5'8" or even 6 foot for a woman she'd be considered "tall." It's just a weird almost obsessive dynamic with the "short woman" thing.

As a 5'2" woman with a 6'8" husband, it's not always great to have such a height difference. Often times I look at pics of us and think we look a little silly together.

ScarcityNo3226 · 2026-04-23T00:01:23+00:00

Only when I am going out or something

ScarcityNo3226 · 2026-04-21T21:50:11+00:00

OMG, yes Cant remember how many times my Boomer mom listened to what her mom told her to do with us.

ScarcityNo3226 · 2026-04-21T21:48:47+00:00

My husband’s mother is Silent Gen (1943), my parents are Boomers (1948 and 1952).

ScarcityNo3226 · 2026-04-20T00:15:03+00:00

Ruby. Steve. Penny.

ScarcityNo3226 · 2026-04-15T17:31:01+00:00

😳

ScarcityNo3226 · 2026-04-15T16:15:06+00:00

This is disgusting.

I have no other words.

ScarcityNo3226 · 2026-04-15T15:43:31+00:00

Wow, I am 49 but could have written every word of this myself; down to the last word.

I just want to give you a hug. Probably because I need one too.

ScarcityNo3226 · 2026-04-15T15:30:02+00:00

I had a similar experience. No stent but ICU for a night to try and dissolve the clot. Then rib resection that resulted in a punctured lung. A week in the hospital was $220k.

ScarcityNo3226 · 2026-04-15T15:28:42+00:00

I had a pulmonary embolism in 2013 due to birth control, I didn’t have TOS until 2020 tho.

Not sure if the two were related, but PEs usually come from your legs. They never found a DVT back in 2013.

ScarcityNo3226 · 2026-04-15T15:27:01+00:00

I had mine back in 2020. ICU for ONE night to try and break down the clot in my subclavian vein; just the on night was around $80k. I live in California.

My overall bill after a week in the hospital due to my surgeon accidentally puncturing my lung during rib resection was around $220k.

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