EJ Dixon

And rereading it like that was very cringe to me, like seeing my insecurities about my identity.

impending marriage and whether or not it was quote-unquote feminist, like, refracted in Donald and Melania Trump of all people.

Like, it's just really stomach-turning and, like, embarrassing to read in retrospect.

Like, why did I think this was anybody's business?

It was a time when vulnerability was really encouraged.

And for like a very, very small amount of money, young women were encouraged to really just like expose the most vulnerable parts of themselves.

And honestly, like in the grand scheme of things, I wrote things that were way more embarrassing than that.

I talk about in the cut piece about this piece that I wrote about like post semen spillage, like after sex and like how me and my fiance at the time like dealt with it.

Do you shake it off like a cat coming out of the bath or a Taylor Swift backup dancer?

Because you had to reference Taylor Swift in 2016.

Shake it off.

Or do you stand up and force it to seep out by jiggling around, like a preschooler at Gymboree?

Do you wipe it down?

And if so, who retrieves the towel?

Do you do it in a house?

Do you do it with a mouse?

Yeah.

I mean, I look back at that stuff and I'm just like, it's so emblematic of the era.

And it's also just like, why?

Like, why would I do that to myself?