becca @TamingofdeSchuh Twitter profile

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becca

10 years

When men are intimidated by my ambition, I'm going to tell them about the time I bought Zadie Smiths husbands book at the dollar store

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becca

@TamingofdeSchuh

6 years

I’m SO over the “does this man REALLY deserve to lose everything” narrative—abusive men make the choice, day after day, year after year, to prioritize their desire to hurt women. All they had to do to protect their precious career was not hurt women, and they chose abuse instead.

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becca

@TamingofdeSchuh

4 years

women online have done more in the past 5 years to stop serial rapists and abusers than police have done in their entire history

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@TamingofdeSchuh

2 years

Incredible drink menu 10/10 no notes

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@TamingofdeSchuh

6 years

nice career you’ve got there.....would be a shame if you ruined it yourself through repeated trauma manipulation and abuse of power on people you mistakenly assumed would never speak up

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@TamingofdeSchuh

1 year

we need to start treating ppl who met there partners at 20 the way we treat rich people imo

dull as the heart of an unbaked brioche

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1 year

kind of love jia getting bodied by olivia rodrigo

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becca

@TamingofdeSchuh

6 years

Ladies, if he -doesn’t text back -will only see you once a week -claims to be overseeing your department -makes you plant a bugged pen in your bosses office -disguises his wife as his sister he’s not your man, he’s KGB agent Philip Jennings disguised as Clark Westerfeld

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@TamingofdeSchuh

29 days

people talk a lot of smack on Colleen Hoover but you can’t deny, she’s the only author who’s been brave enough to ask the question: what if your name was Ryan, but also Kyle

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@TamingofdeSchuh

6 years

“oh how sweet, a man reading on the train...wait...no...fuck”

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@TamingofdeSchuh

1 year

The most important lesson I ever learned as a writer: When I was 28 I was at a bar on a Friday night. My friends and I were dancing and getting wasted and having an amazing night, when I looked around and noticed that my buddy Bunny was missing. I asked my buddy Henry, “Hey

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becca

@TamingofdeSchuh

5 years

oh fuck what did the G train do

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becca

@TamingofdeSchuh

6 years

roses are red ben Affleck seemed blue

Ben Affleck

@BenAffleck

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@NewYorker I’m doing just fine. Thick skin bolstered by garish tattoos.

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@TamingofdeSchuh

2 months

@MetaReflexive I accidentally (it’s just in my lexicon) quote friends all the time and people ALWAYS laugh so I think that people like to shit on friends to feel superior rather than actually thinking it’s not funny

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@TamingofdeSchuh

1 year

your rent has always been split in half? you’ve never feared dying bc you were sick and didn’t have anyone to check up on you? no dating app trenches? one step below nepo baby

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becca

@TamingofdeSchuh

6 years

if only progressive men spoke out for abortion rights the way they pressure women into having sex without condoms

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@TamingofdeSchuh

3 years

if I were the body I would simply not keep the score

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@TamingofdeSchuh

2 years

@silverjocelyn The sheer number of different times and different sources I have heard this proves to me that it’s true

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@TamingofdeSchuh

5 years

@AndrewPaulJoyce much like the Mona Lisa, his eyes follow you wherever you go

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becca

@TamingofdeSchuh

4 years

If you’re a service worker and your bosses have forced you to come to work despite being sick (any symptoms, not just COVID,) plz dm me. I’m not a reporter but I’d like to start a database of restaurants and bars exhibiting this recklessness if we need to take collective action.

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@TamingofdeSchuh

7 years

@PamelaPaulNYT Additionally, with all due respect, there are enough barriers between service workers and the upper cultural classes without NYT editors arbitrarily nitpicking their language. I’ve always loved your podcast but please be more sensitive to the class divide here.

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@TamingofdeSchuh

3 years

@meaganrosae dudes who clearly viscerally hate every aspect of dating and yet still continue to do it are v confusing to me

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@TamingofdeSchuh

6 years

@devanboyle @sawdustbear lol yaaaaa show me a man who has actually lost everything then we can talk

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@TamingofdeSchuh

6 years

morality 101: it is possible that both woody allen and mia farrow are terrible people journalism 101: maybe the person to write a profile of soon-yi should not be a 40 year friend and admirer of her husband brought to you by me, a dumb waitress

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@TamingofdeSchuh

5 years

I cannot stay silent.......authors..........thicken your epidermis and get a grip! your work isn’t for everyone! also, YOU TWO ARE MILLIONAIRES! dry your tears with dollar bills and get on with your life, stop harassing a literal teenager for having a goddamn option!!!!

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@TamingofdeSchuh

4 years

I can handle another lockdown but I cannot handle another round of lockdown virtue signaling / lockdown shaming

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becca

@TamingofdeSchuh

4 years

it’s about jerkin it on a work call but it’s also about: some ppl are paid to be servile and present at a workplace, or paid piecemeal for work upon completion, while others are paid to exist and occasionally produce while mostly going about their regular life. of jerkin on zoom

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@TamingofdeSchuh

5 months

gonna keep tabs on this girl purely bc her husband (or his family’s!) reaction to her essay will be the ultimate proof of what kind of rich they are

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@TamingofdeSchuh

4 years

triangle house and tin house acquired by penguin random house, renamed house house house

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@TamingofdeSchuh

6 years

the reason these attempted comebacks are so transparent is that the men all lack empathy. they talk about how their lives are shitty now, but they don’t spare even a sentence to say: maybe each and every woman I’ve abused spent the entire time she knew me in fear and pain.

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@TamingofdeSchuh

3 years

@kristinem42 @ItsBeardoWeirdo Once at the bar I worked at the manager was trying to help a bartender who was in the weeds. He picks up the ticket: vodka soda Manager to bartender: how do I make a vodka soda?

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@TamingofdeSchuh

7 years

@PamelaPaulNYT As someone who has been screamed at in public by restaurant bosses for not sticking to absurd rhetorical protocol, I’m going to guess this is imposed by management and not a whimsical choice by service staff.

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becca

@TamingofdeSchuh

4 years

alright ladies what part of the stock market should WE fuck up

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becca

@TamingofdeSchuh

5 years

@eggshellfriend once my Bf texted me “call me when you get home, I want to talk to you” when I was at a concert and I showed @mmilesgoodrich and was like “omg what happened do you think he hates me”

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@TamingofdeSchuh

5 months

likely thing for Jeffrey Toobin to say

Jeffrey Toobin

@JeffreyToobin

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Pecker has taken the witness stand.

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@TamingofdeSchuh

4 years

personally,,,,,I cannot wait to sell out

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becca

@TamingofdeSchuh

5 years

fuck Lana Del Rey for dating a fucking cop I gurgle through the semen of a man who didn’t vote in the 2016 election

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@TamingofdeSchuh

1 year

at a party with someone who , after being asked if they’d been to a museum lately, said they saw a really good exhibition at the Brooklyn museum …. About a famous old artist….

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@TamingofdeSchuh

4 years

ok I'm going to be brave enough to be the person to coin the term 'adult YA,' as in adult books written like they're YA, whom among you will be brave enough to respond to this with examples

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becca

@TamingofdeSchuh

3 years

this just in: new NYT styles editor and noted girlboss lets her 40,000 private Instagram followers know it was a petty hit piece upon the young and hot

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becca

@TamingofdeSchuh

1 year

I lived with a (perfect, lovely, not annoying) couple for the past year and my life was 1000% easier than it had ever been before. That kind of collaboration when done right is not replicable by a single person unless you’re rich

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@TamingofdeSchuh

1 year

@xApokalypse @LolOverruled Roughly is not the best choice of word here

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@TamingofdeSchuh

3 years

I heard they’re adding “you just fucking suck” to the next DSM

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@TamingofdeSchuh

6 years

hi! If you’ve never been a source on an article outing an abuser, you may not know that much of what the abuser did doesn’t get into said articles for legal reasons. just in case anyone out there is ready to make the not that bad argument.

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becca

@TamingofdeSchuh

5 years

I just id’d a table at work and the guy was like “wow. Wowww.” well idk Matt, one of us is doing our job, and the other is a 30 year old on a date with a 22 year old. but sure. Wow. WOWWWWW. W00000w wowowoowowwo

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becca

@TamingofdeSchuh

3 years

I just wanna cook beautiful meals for a rotating cast of friends and lovers and do little else…..y is this so much to ask

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@TamingofdeSchuh

6 years

legacy publication fuckups bingo card

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becca

@TamingofdeSchuh

6 years

At least we finally know what it takes for a Bernie supporter to be published by NYT Opinion

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becca

@TamingofdeSchuh

7 years

ah yes I have been craving a single payer burger

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McDonald's Just Rolled Out Burgers With Millennials' Favorite Ingredient

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becca

@TamingofdeSchuh

7 years

For Halloween I'm going as freedom of speech and boobs

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becca

@TamingofdeSchuh

6 years

I started to envision abuse as a web of strings held high in the air, which everyone involved holds up as the abuser sits on the structure, immune to the pain of keeping the web intact. Thank you to everyone who helped us dismantle that facade.

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becca

@TamingofdeSchuh

1 month

I haven’t read the book yet but this review reminds me of something I’ve been thinking about a lot ….. like … no one is forcing you to date or marry a loser…you can simply not … being single is actually fine

Parul Sehgal

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My grouchiest review in a while + one falling well outside the critical consensus, I'm afraid. On Sarah Manguso's latest + the new language and criteria for "covert domestic abuse"

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@TamingofdeSchuh

4 years

bdsm stands for blair dan Serena mnate

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@TamingofdeSchuh

4 years

I got my Prozac delivered to the hotel by capsule and when I got downstairs I was like oh do you need to see my id and the delivery guy was like “you’re wearing a velvet sweater dress and fur slipper loafers and I’m delivering you Prozac at a hotel no identification needed”

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@TamingofdeSchuh

4 years

sucks when the enemy of my enemy also sucks. that's just another enemy. no new friends.

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becca

@TamingofdeSchuh

5 months

at Nicole’s funeral, Faye Resnick smoked two cigarettes out in the sun after bc OJ never let Nicole smoke in public 🚬💔

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@TamingofdeSchuh

2 years

This is the mojito?! My life is g

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becca

@TamingofdeSchuh

7 months

omg grow up … cherry picking random details out of an essay to build an argument based on your perception of equality isn’t the point ! I read essays to understand an experience through the lens of a mind I admire, not to do math on who’s a good person or not

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Marriage is complicated and certainly the patriarchy + unfair burdens on mothers are a thing. But cheating and blowing the family finances on takeout doesn't seem to be justified by "my husband made me do all the chores"

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@TamingofdeSchuh

7 years

friend: what helps your anxiety? me: attention and money friend: haven't u been in therapy for like 6 years me: a funny thing is that therapy is when you pay someone money to pay attention to you

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becca

@TamingofdeSchuh

3 years

We owe it to Gian to keep him alive by publishing and championing weirdos. By keeping literary life wild. He rarely talked about his own writing—he was all about uplifting others. I vow to embed that vibe in my life, in his honor.

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becca

@TamingofdeSchuh

6 years

FYI 41 of the men on the spreadsheet were employed and kept their jobs 16 were freelancers who continue to publish regularly 10 were freelancers or novelists whose career trajectories are hard to determine from publicly available info 5 were employed and lost their jobs

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becca

@TamingofdeSchuh

3 years

in March 2020 the rest of the nation was like “haha fuck New Yorkers, idc if they die of this covid thing, they deserve it for being coastal elitéś” and today theyre like “if the 85% vaxxed NYers could continue to not socialize in solidarity with me, some guy, that’d be great”

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becca

@TamingofdeSchuh

4 years

@SamAdlerBell if you need to tell me about your hike are you really doing it for the hike or are you doing it to tell me about your hikes

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becca

@TamingofdeSchuh

4 years

I wrote about the deep dark crevasse that my brain has inhabited during quarantine 🖤🖤🖤 @TheCut

I Think About My Painting Goblin in The Sims a Lot

He paints and paints and paints, making his Sim family rich. Why can’t he do the same for me?

www.thecut.com

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becca

@TamingofdeSchuh

3 years

Novel titles are like “the last thing I can’t ever tell anyone”

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becca

@TamingofdeSchuh

2 months

in print today 🥲🥲🥲

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becca

@TamingofdeSchuh

1 year

I’ve been writing this piece on and off for probably five years, but also the entire decade I’ve been waitressing. Thank you always to @daisandconfused who pushed me to return to it and then freaking PUBLISHED it

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Today @dirtyverse is proud to publish a long read by @TamingofdeSchuh . Think of it as both memoir and manifesto.

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3 months

@molochofficial

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@TamingofdeSchuh

6 years

ppl on the train side eyeing me with a hiking backpack and three tote bags of books probably think I am a dumbass traveler when in fact I am something far more worthy of derision, a person attempting to move from Williamsburg to Bushwick via the subway

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becca

@TamingofdeSchuh

3 years

Bluets is a listicle

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becca

@TamingofdeSchuh

5 years

a man just asked me if I’d heard of Dostoyevsky and I said “no”

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@TamingofdeSchuh

5 months

two paths for the young Harvard grad (the drift and ponytail high breast trad wife)

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@TamingofdeSchuh

6 years

me: so you might not remember this guy I went on a date with two years ago— my therapist: the one with two dogs and a car? HOW DOES SHE DO IT!!!

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@TamingofdeSchuh

4 years

there’s a lot of knee jerk reactions when scary abortion stuff is on the horizon, ty @TheCut @bridgetgillard for this q/a

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@TamingofdeSchuh

4 years

red flag? you walk up to a mans bookshelf, ready to peruse, but when you try to slide out a book, your finger sides in instead it’s cake

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becca

@TamingofdeSchuh

2 years

Sex strike discourse problematic etc but I do think it’s worthwhile to remember that you do not need to let men into your life who are casually cruel, ego-bruised reactionary, or even just complacent. its worth training yourself out of the idea that male company is a necessity

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@TamingofdeSchuh

2 months

hey buddy can you come bail me out? yeah i got arrested at the bookstore for muttering “oh im sure” while reading the backs of memoirs

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becca

@TamingofdeSchuh

4 years

ok that’s it lets END the era of “writing is hard write like a motherfucker submitting is a guillotine” writing is easier than many jobs and the ability to spend any time sitting with your thoughts and parsing them out on paper is a privilege that most people never enjoy !!!

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@TamingofdeSchuh

2 years

wrote about how a certain '''progressive''''s fall from grace surprises no one, and the real blue and gold

I'm blue da ba die da ba gold

hashtag abolish Sean

idiotscontinue.substack.com

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@TamingofdeSchuh

5 months

seems insane that David Foster Wallace looked like this

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@TamingofdeSchuh

2 months

can someone explain to me what not voting does to curtail the two party system lol……like, oh, are they going to notice you didn’t vote and decide it’s time to introduce more parties? Already 30-50% of people don’t vote and no one gives a shit!

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becca

@TamingofdeSchuh

1 year

sorry everyone I just noticed that their corrected to there .:.. hopefully this only convinced everyone that I am not an êłïtë

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@TamingofdeSchuh

3 years

in the future everyone will be cancelled for fifteen minutes

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becca

@TamingofdeSchuh

3 months

they should send me on one of those writing assignments about being unable to enjoy a normie experience (cruise etc) but the trick is I would simply enjoy it because I’m easygoing and love to lay around

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@TamingofdeSchuh

4 years

I've learned that there's a genre of twitter that's like girls in the midwest getting their MFAs sitting around with [redacted, all the books I hate] and 'prepping for workshop' and drinking tea out of 'write like a motherfucker' mugs and I'm so high and I'm scared!!

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@TamingofdeSchuh

8 months

Seeing everyone’s stories about Anthony makes me so happy and so sad. Remembering his turns of phrase, his generosity, his understanding of culture. I just found a message where we described “dancing away from someone at a party.” A perfect moment.

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@TamingofdeSchuh

5 years

@mekosoff in college I ate an edible before creative writing on 4/20 and was like “huh I feel nothing” and then a guy who I had liked all semester started complimenting my writing and saying that everyone’s stories were derivative of mine and I replied....”I like cheese”

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@TamingofdeSchuh

6 years

victims don’t come forward for fun, or for revenge. I can’t speak for every person who has experienced assault, manipulation, or abuse, but I can say the two reasons I know most intimately: staying silent is too painful, and you hope to protect other women from what you endured.

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@TamingofdeSchuh

4 years

fuck all of you we are NOT arguing about writing prompts Jfc that’s the lamest thing I’ve ever heard get a life !!!!!!!

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@TamingofdeSchuh

1 year

at least when Twitter finally dies I won’t have to read any more tweets from creative writing professors asking people what pieces to teach their class

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@TamingofdeSchuh

6 years

@Bernstein Olivia Laing, Elisa Gabbert, Deborah Eisenberg, Lauren Groff, Melissa Gira Grant, Harron Walker, Zoé Samudzi, Andrea Long Chu, Hanif Abdurraqib, Nico Walker, Leopoldine Core, Morgan Parker, Teju Cole all come to mind but hey sure maybe you’re right and there’s actually zero

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@TamingofdeSchuh

3 years

I wonder too….how the leftist men (and don’t forget the many leftist women!) who have spent the past few years blithely mocking feminism for — what? misogyny and “cool girl” status? will publicly react to the undeniable fact that women’s rights are indeed regressing

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@TamingofdeSchuh

7 years

state of the union pool

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@TamingofdeSchuh

2 years

@knobkardashian What Ever

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becca

@TamingofdeSchuh

4 years

I just found out that my ex who I had to break up with because he “couldn’t get over HIS ex” is already dating someone new and I am FURIOUS because it’s a PANDEMIC and I have not felt human touch in MONTHS so please like this tweet and compliment me because I am crying :)

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@TamingofdeSchuh

4 years

yes......I remember people *making fun* of New Yorkers while bodies were literally being dumped into mass graves at hudson yards. it was sickening, people thought it couldn’t happen where they lived, and now......voila the graph!

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@TamingofdeSchuh

3 years

new s*lly r**ney is epitome of “everyone’s talking but they don’t say a thing” —— I keep seeing references but have no idea what happens in the book OR anyone’s actual opinions on it. it’s like people are talking about the talking

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@TamingofdeSchuh

4 years

writers may not be rich but there’s an enormous difference between making 31k (not a theoretical number, the number on my w-2 from the bar) and having nice gigs come up to you without you “really hustling or hiring a business manager or social media person or anything haha!”

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@TamingofdeSchuh

4 years

one of my college professors is also a DJ and his DJ name is PhDJ

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@TamingofdeSchuh

5 years

omfg I forgot about this Bc I thought I dreamt it but this guy who I went on two dates with two years ago texted me on IWD......as he has done on many other women-themed days....

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HUNTER BIDEN ORGY IN THE WHITE HOUSE

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