HeyJaredJust Saying
Personal essays and thoughts on culture, ideas, and current events.
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What even was hookup culture? (opens the original)
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Recently, wrote about how she regrets being a slut during the heyday of early-aughts hookup culture, and (Carrie Bradshaw voice) it got me thinking: what even is a slut? What’s a one-night stand? What the fuck was hookup culture? One cool thing about talking about sluttiness as a 40-something who hasn’t been single since 2015 is that it’s not personal anymore and no one gives a shit. No one in my demographic cares anymore if random people call her slutty, and most people also probably have no in
How do you become better? (opens the original)
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I should start by saying that I have no idea. I'm no expert. Millennials catch a lot of flak for being addicted to self-help books and TED Talks and whatever else is supposed to help us be better and I'm no different. You should see my bookshelves and my Kindle library and my YouTube algorithm and the videos I've saved to “watch later.” I can't count how many people my age— the Xennial or “Elder Millennial” set— that I know (including me) who have done things like Hard 75 and Whole 30 and other
Brief reflections on a Christian Science church service and 55+ communities (opens the original)
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‘Fair warning: this is going to be a very stoned navel-gazing post and I make no apologies! However I do not wish to subject anyone to such a cliched self-indulgence1 without warning, so if you simply cannot with this type of thing, turn back now!<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1760196990542-9d6c0fa764cd?crop=entropy&cs=tinysrgb&fit=max&fm=jpg&ixid=M3wzMDAzMzh8MHwxfHNlYXJjaHw0NHx8cnVuJTIwZXhpdHxl
We are not monsters (or demons) (opens the original)
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I almost never pay attention to the kinds of court cases that capture the nation’s attention for weeks at a time. I don’t know, man, I just really can't stand listening to lawyers transparently try as hard as they can to manipulate juries. Watching professional, credentialed, educated people who we are expected to trust transparently lie and manipulate others in real time, knowing they’re doing so and with a professional mandate to continue, with the additional expectation that we sit there and
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