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Hello, my name is Liz Belsky. I live in New York City, where I'm studying TV/Radio and attempting to do something cool with my life. This is my blog where I sometimes post musings about ladies' issues, general interest ramblings, and scholarly analyses of comedy and TV in general, but more frequently I post photos of my fingernails and of my face.

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July 22, 2012

"I’ve met a lot of guys my age who have crushes on Pam [Beesley] that are so intense, it says more about what they want than who this character is supposed to be. They don’t just like her; they relate to her. They’re underdogs too. And what they want is who they are.

Pam is not intimidating, like one of those women who wear smakeup and tailored clothes, and has a good job that she enjoys, and confidence, and an adult woman’s sexuality. There’s nothing scary about Pam, because there’s no mystery: she’s just like the boys who like her; mousy and shy. The ultimate emo-boy fantasy is to meet a nerdy, cute girl just like him, and nobody else will realize she’s pretty. And she’ll melt when she sees his record collection because it’s just like hers, and she’ll swoon when he plays her the song he wrote on the guitar, and she’ll never want to go out to a party for which he’ll be forced to comb his hair or buy grown-up shoes or tie a tie, or demonstrate a hearty handshake, or make eye contact, or relate to people who work in different fields, or to basically act like a man… The horrors of trying to make conversation with a woman who’s never seen Transformers or doesn’t care how the Knicks are doing this season is the stuff of their nightmares. It’s like they just want themselves with a vagina."

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Julie Klausner, I Don’t Care About Your Band

I’m rereading this book today ‘cause I finished the copy of Patti LuPone’s memor I picked up at Goodwill yesterday, and I always forget how much this passage here — and this whole chapter, actually — sticks with me. I know so many guys like this.

3:41pm | URL: http://tmblr.co/Z9NMSyPuQ92Q

(Notes: 53)