New Yorker cover going viral (millennial woman, childless, cats, drinking alone in apt on zoom)

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Her efficiency has to smell like hell. It's small, unclean, and two cats live there so god only knows if and when the litter gets changed and taken out. Pretty sure those masks are picked up from the floor and reused as needed without washing.

I would assume any woman who lives like this has emotional problems or is very lazy.

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Surrounded by garbage and cats, living a lonely, solitary life. To me, it’s a statement on modern social media culture, and having to put on a facade for the camera, while your life crumbles around you. The happiness is false, and fleeting. Once the camera shuts off, the smile fades with it. This young lady is a cautionary tale, and I pity her, and anyone who glorifies this empty lifestyle.

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Anonymous wrote:Surrounded by garbage and cats, living a lonely, solitary life. To me, it’s a statement on modern social media culture, and having to put on a facade for the camera, while your life crumbles around you. The happiness is false, and fleeting. Once the camera shuts off, the smile fades with it. This young lady is a cautionary tale, and I pity her, and anyone who glorifies this empty lifestyle.

oh ffs. do you understand what “art” is? this isn’t some kind of moral endorsement of a lifestyle. it’s a slice-of-life depiction that many people can identify with right now. if you think New Yorker covers are offering moral prescriptions, I really don’t know what to tell you

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Anonymous wrote:Her efficiency has to smell like hell. It's small, unclean, and two cats live there so god only knows if and when the litter gets changed and taken out. Pretty sure those masks are picked up from the floor and reused as needed without washing.

I would assume any woman who lives like this has emotional problems or is very lazy.

or is working from home around the clock and nobody else comes into her apartment, so hygeine standards have lapsed? I think pretty much every person I know identifies with that right now.

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Anonymous wrote:Her efficiency has to smell like hell. It's small, unclean, and two cats live there so god only knows if and when the litter gets changed and taken out. Pretty sure those masks are picked up from the floor and reused as needed without washing.

I would assume any woman who lives like this has emotional problems or is very lazy.

Why do you think it’s an efficiency?

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Anonymous wrote:by Adrian Tomine, “Love Life.”

A cosmopolitan who blows all of her income rent, dining out, wanderlust, and student loans. Duped.

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Anonymous wrote:That's a martini glass. Gonna assume there's something stronger than wine in those bottles on the fridge. Also, she's clearly Latina or other POC, which means she's probably about 15 years older than she actually looks. Add lack of stress from not having children...oh yeah. Chica is living her best pandemic life. r u jellis?

I’m white and I look very similar to her. I also look significantly younger than I am.

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Anonymous wrote:Her efficiency has to smell like hell. It's small, unclean, and two cats live there so god only knows if and when the litter gets changed and taken out. Pretty sure those masks are picked up from the floor and reused as needed without washing.

I would assume any woman who lives like this has emotional problems or is very lazy.

or is working from home around the clock and nobody else comes into her apartment, so hygeine standards have lapsed? I think pretty much every person I know identifies with that right now.

No.

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Anonymous wrote:Her efficiency has to smell like hell. It's small, unclean, and two cats live there so god only knows if and when the litter gets changed and taken out. Pretty sure those masks are picked up from the floor and reused as needed without washing.

I would assume any woman who lives like this has emotional problems or is very lazy.

Why do you think it’s an efficiency?

Not pp but because she put up the screen to block the bed and the kitchen is like, on top of the sleeping area?

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Anonymous wrote:Her efficiency has to smell like hell. It's small, unclean, and two cats live there so god only knows if and when the litter gets changed and taken out. Pretty sure those masks are picked up from the floor and reused as needed without washing.

I would assume any woman who lives like this has emotional problems or is very lazy.

Why do you think it’s an efficiency?

Because of the privacy screen. If she had a door, I would assume she would just close it instead of putting the screen up.

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Anonymous wrote:Her efficiency has to smell like hell. It's small, unclean, and two cats live there so god only knows if and when the litter gets changed and taken out. Pretty sure those masks are picked up from the floor and reused as needed without washing.

I would assume any woman who lives like this has emotional problems or is very lazy.

or is working from home around the clock and nobody else comes into her apartment, so hygeine standards have lapsed? I think pretty much every person I know identifies with that right now.

Maybe I stand alone, but I'm not clean for other people; I am clean for me. Living in squalor would interfere with my peace of mind. She probably doesn't wash her hands after using the restroom either.

This image is why I don't do potlucks at work. She would have the audacity to prepare a dish in that filthy apartment to share with her coworkers. Yuck.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Her efficiency has to smell like hell. It's small, unclean, and two cats live there so god only knows if and when the litter gets changed and taken out. Pretty sure those masks are picked up from the floor and reused as needed without washing.

I would assume any woman who lives like this has emotional problems or is very lazy.

or is working from home around the clock and nobody else comes into her apartment, so hygeine standards have lapsed? I think pretty much every person I know identifies with that right now.

Maybe I stand alone, but I'm not clean for other people; I am clean for me. Living in squalor would interfere with my peace of mind. She probably doesn't wash her hands after using the restroom either.

This image is why I don't do potlucks at work. She would have the audacity to prepare a dish in that filthy apartment to share with her coworkers. Yuck.

I am clean for my mom, actually. If I die in here, alone, I don't want people stepping over filth to get to my stiff body riddled with bite marks from feral cats.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Her efficiency has to smell like hell. It's small, unclean, and two cats live there so god only knows if and when the litter gets changed and taken out. Pretty sure those masks are picked up from the floor and reused as needed without washing.

I would assume any woman who lives like this has emotional problems or is very lazy.

or is working from home around the clock and nobody else comes into her apartment, so hygeine standards have lapsed? I think pretty much every person I know identifies with that right now.

Maybe I stand alone, but I'm not clean for other people; I am clean for me. Living in squalor would interfere with my peace of mind. She probably doesn't wash her hands after using the restroom either.

This image is why I don't do potlucks at work. She would have the audacity to prepare a dish in that filthy apartment to share with her coworkers. Yuck.

+1

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Hope she will not refuse the mask on the floor. Something tells me she will run out in a hurry and wear it again after being on the floor.

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Anonymous wrote:Let me clear this up. Pile of books on her left, silhouette of a man on screen...BUT, the dead giveaway is the size of her hoop earrings (age 25). The medical gloves on floor hints that she may be in the medical field. The disarray is funny, but not unmanageable. Couple of prescription bottles may indicate a chronic illness; immuno issue, migraines, anxiety, whatever. Two cats doesn't mean a thing, yet it's purposely done to create maniacal speculation that her life is somehow less gratifying than yours.

Grad student on a zoom date.

She’s a woman of color. Hoop earrings are not a hard marker for age. I’m Afro-Latina and late 40s. I will be buried in my hoops.

Got you, mija.

Ha love this exchange pp's. I'm poster above. It isn't a marker of race, only age. I guess I stand corrected on hoop size. If I could figure out how to post a gif, I'd sent some funny ones that I sent to my best friend who indulged on hoops (diamond). I tortured her with memes and gifs. She's very young 50 and white.

I mentioned gloves not masks bc that (to me) hints of medical profession, plus the pile of books. Most of us are wearing masks. Few of us are wearing medical gloves.

Anyway, be safe out there.