Emma Glassman-Hughes

And it's kind of like a simpler time when you're 13 and like that's all that you can, that's all you can think about and nothing really matters beyond that.

The edits, again, it makes me feel like a kid again.

It's definitely a huge topic of conversation on the PopSugar team, but I'm queer and all of my queer female friends are very taken with this show and very drawn to these more vulnerable depictions of masculinity that we don't really get to see very much of.

I argue in my essay that women are frequently the objects of yearning, but we see fewer depictions of female yearning out there.

I think we see a lot of depictions of women

kind of passively wishing or hoping for something.

But to me, that's not true yearning.

I've been thinking about this a lot since PopSugar posted about the essay on our Instagram.

Someone actually commented something that has stuck with me.

They were saying that, you know, we're always seeing depictions of women who want and never receive.

Um, and that really made me think, like, I think there is a difference between the sort of passive wishing and the real like gut level yearning.

The latter is what I want to see more of from women and queer people this year.

Not just like wistful stuff, but like the tornadoes and the storms and the like shattered glass of it all.