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Heidi Shusterman's avatar

The NYT will not permit me to read your essay

kerreee's avatar

They can try to copy your jacket style, but no one can copy your hair.

Elizabeth K. Baker's avatar

On your specific shoulders the black leather rules.

Kaethe Weingarten's avatar

For me, thinking about how devastating this is for his wife and children, it didn't quite cleanse my palate.

carra hood's avatar

Sorry to say but I do not think the "Huang thang" has anything to do with leather (or vegan leather) jackets on middle aged men (in mid-life crisis mode?). It has everything to do with male privilege and men objectifying women (and women adopting that as a position from which to f--k with them). No reason for this nonsense. BTW: I am a not-straight women who has a few of those jackets, in fact one of them has fringe :)

Melissa Smith's avatar

Let's see more of that flamingo pink wool sweater instead!

Bill McCarty's avatar

Keep wearing it. Makes you look like a “bad boy,” just like George Costanza in Seinfeld (Season 8, Episode 4).

Paul J. Baicich's avatar

Sure, keep wearing it. But occasionally, I will lend you my late-60s Madras jacket for your TV appearances! (You can thank me later.)

Tom Corddry's avatar

Loved that when it dropped in NYT. My deepest condolences. I take comfort in knowing that my leather jacket is older than you are, and looks it.

Heidi Stamas's avatar

Love this! I always wonder about my leather jacket-I’m a woman in my 60’s. It’s a uniform as you say. Do I need to give it up?😩😂

Joseph McPhillips's avatar

As Trump & Co grand conspiracies & revenge campaigns begin to crumble the fraud, extortion & serial criminality of the RICO enterprise is exposed. Trumpian gaslighting & demonization of the insufficiently loyal must fail. Pointing out criminality & corruption does not make us terrorists or the enemy within. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4PIkmjwGsQ Dems calls for investigations are criminal but Trump & Co can incite violent insurrection conduct baseless prosecutions & call for execution of critics? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhYPFjvqWl4https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uSXLEasKQE

Leslie Spotz's avatar

Alas, NYT put this new policy on gift articles, where you have to still make an account. Since I refuse to do those nowadays...alas. That said, I'm a 70 yo woman who still wears and loves her leather jacket from 30 years ago. Probably if I read the essay, I would think it was a beautiful, honest portrayal of our ongoing experience of humanity. All of it. Mr. Huang's betrayal is entirely his, which he can own. It is not yours and doesn't belong to anyone else. If you want, you can always take a palate cleanser break one day a week and wear a sweater. Or not. 😉