Dear Readers of this Blog, In the spirit of the year winding down, I thought I’d post my annual hate list: Everything pink and Barbie and my outsize jealousy of Greta Gerwig even though she has done nothing to me personally and made the highest grossing film of the year opening doors for women filmmakers which is awesome. Romantacy as a new genre. People hating on my new home away from home, TikTok, and blaming CoHo (Colleen Hoover) for the demise of fiction. People “not getting” Taylor Swift. Calling Twitter X. Succession and people praising it for the “writing.” The loss of constitutional rights. The battle for the soul of our country. The world in flames.
Sending love and light and bright new pages. Stay healthy, keep writing whatever you do, and hope to see you in the new year.
Love, Betsy
p.s. please add to the list!!
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Betsy!! Finally! The only other person on the planet who found Succession unbearable. And while we’re at it, I hate that we can’t all agree that Love Actually is hot garbage almost as much as I hate that we all can’t seem to agree on anything important in this world.
Corporations pretending to be philanthropic.
Business speak: circling back, 10,000 foot view, putting a pin in it, the illusion of diversity committees.
People who say they’re socially liberal and fiscally conservative.
Pretending the tiny house movement is anything other than privilege. See also 20-something, travel-the-world-in-a-van influencers. I could be jealous though…
On the New Year upside: animal voiceover artists on social media, fires outside in winter, planning for my spring garden, books for Christmas that I haven’t heard of, new shoes that fit perfectly.
I hate all the hate out there. And Nikki with all the $$$ who can’t or won’t utter the word slavery, who knows precisely what she’s doing. All the bull shit.
But lovin’ on The Color Purple, the musical!!!
Me, too. Amazing, gorgeous, so full of heart. Loved!!!
I hate: People who treat me like I’m dying or already dead because I use a walker so I won’t fall…again. Mean people who are manipulators or not. Politicians who are more interested in their power and position instead of the people they were hired to serve. Everyone who kills for no reason, hates because they can’t accept change, and destroys countries and peoples only to keep power. It’s a crazy world right now. I say hooray for the arts and artists who are out there on the front lines of protecting our democracy and way of life. May this be a better year for all of us.
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I hate the phrase “year over year”. It just rubs me the wrong way.
Last minute holiday shoppers clogging up the grocery store when I just need a gallon of milk.
Traffic.
People who pay more attention to their phones than their children.
Mostly, I hate that my brother has been gone for three years now (he passed away in 2020) and I really want to talk to him.
Looking forward to spring and doing some real gardening.
Happy 2024 to all!
Nice ones, there. I hate the industry around mindfulness. Songs that reek of industry. That the loudest people dig binary thinking and sound bites over thinking. The combination of chocolate and citrus fruits. Commercials with baby voices for baby’s voices. Happy New Year, writers and fellow humans!
P.S. It’s Dorli here but I forgot to log in 🙂
I dislike the use of the word “hater” as a synonym for someone offering criticism or a different point of view. My sense is that indiscriminantly calling other people “haters” increases the misleading sense of intense American us-vs-them hostilities, when we should work towards calm acceptance of other people’s ideas. Even people who do not recognize Succession as brilliant scriptwriting.
I can no longer hate, so I can add nothing to your list. I can only grieve, and who needs that? Happy New Year.
Happy new year , TC. Thanks for being here.
After over Five decades in retail management I used to say I hated all my customers, even the nice ones…especially the nice ones because they made me feel guilty for hating them.
Now I’m done hating, I’m done with stupid fucks that can’t think for themselves. I’m done with wars over dirt. I’m done with politicians and editors that think age is a disease. BTW I will always hate Lima beans because I am not perfect.
In case I pop up as anon I am 2Ns.
What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. Happy new year and thanks for being here.
I saw this late but I hate Succession too and it feels good to come out of that closet! I hate that our city public schools are so fucked up. I hate all the paper that I shove into boxes or bags – bills, magazines, takeout menus, catalogs, receipts, grocery lists. I hate throwing out food that I thought I’d use making a gourmet meal for 6 people when I live alone. I hate the news reporting on stupidity, hatred, war, death, rape, white supremacy, antisemitism, anti everything, book banning, control over women’s bodies, murder, homelessness, poverty rates, Trump and all his shit and the god forsaken election. It’s a huge ball of sadness and anger and hate. And I really hate that i hate myself. It makes everything harder.
But I do love this blog and the writers who land here and my amazing daughters and my ankles. I’ve always had nice looking ankles.
We love you, too!!