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Men Need to Be Needed, But Women Want to Be Loved
I’ve been thinking about the relationship between men and women and how much we misunderstand one another. And I’ve come to a conclusion that might ruffle a few feathers. Some men don’t resent independent women because they don’t understand them. They resent independent women because they understand exactly what women’s independence means. It means women…
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Menopause Has Turned Me Into Aunt Bunny, and I’m Not Amused. Well, Maybe a Little. 😹
By The Potty Mouth Granny When I was younger, I used to laugh my ass off at Eddie Murphy’s stand-up comedy special Delirious. One of my favorite routines was about his Aunt Bunny, a rather unfortunate-looking woman with a mustache that Eddie compared to Billy Dee Williams’s. I thought that shit was hilarious. Well, guess…
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The Shoes Are Visible. The Struggle Isn’t
I am tired of hearing people talk about Black folks like we are collectively standing outside Gucci every payday waiting to blow the rent money. According to some people, we don’t pay bills. We don’t buy groceries. We don’t pay rent, mortgages, utilities, car insurance, phone bills, medical expenses, transportation costs, or take care of…
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Kicking It At David’s Inn
During school breaks, I would sometimes go to work with my mom. She was a cook at a restaurant called David’s Inn Restaurant and Cocktails on Michigan Avenue, and some of my favorite childhood memories are centered around that place. I was an inquisitive child—nosy as hell, really—and for some reason, adults loved my nosy…
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Witch Hazel: The Original Unbothered Crone
I have always loved a woman who refuses to behave herself. So let’s talk about one of my favorite ladies. Witch Hazel of Looney Tunes. Long before television started giving us complicated female villains, witches with trauma, misunderstood antiheroines, and women who “lean into their power,” there was this wild-haired, green-skinned, cackling old broad tearing…
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Softness & Moi
A soft life is not easy, but it’s possible to create it in the midst of hardship. It’s about finding joy in simple things, like a cup of coffee in silence or listening to your favorite music.
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Three’s Company Was Dirtier Than We Remember — and That Was the Fun of It
I’ve been watching old episodes of Three’s Company, and one thing keeps cracking me up: this show was nowhere near as innocent as nostalgia would have you believe. Take the episode where Mr. Furley ends up getting arrested for solicitation. Yes. Mr. Furley. Don Knotts. Arrested for trying to buy a prostitute. On network television.…
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Who is your favorite cartoon character? Oh this a good one😄😄😄. My favorite cartoon character of all time is Bugs Bunny. Why? Because he’s so petty and funny. He has no shame at all. He’s authentically himself. How can you not admire him?😹😹😹
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Mélusine: The Devil’s Daughter, the Serpent Woman, and Another Man Who Couldn’t Mind His Damn Business
Every now and then I fall down one of my historical rabbit holes and come across a woman—real, legendary, mythical, whatever—who makes me stop and say, now who the hell is this? Today that woman is Mélusine. And baby, Mélusine has a story. She has been called the Devil’s daughter, a fairy, a water spirit,…
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Winsome Witch and the Town That Forgot Women
If you’ve never seen Winsome Witch, you’re missing one of Hanna-Barbera’s most charming and underrated cartoon characters. I had forgotten all about this cartoon until MeTv Toons started playing it again. My favorite episode is the one where Winnie lands in a lonely frontier town where the men have gone twenty years without seeing a…
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