Tina Burke

Like, she was very much, like, on a journey to, like, hide that part of herself and, like, reclaim this, what she says is, like, poison ivy, cat woman, sexual but scary persona.

And, like, she even talks about it in the way she's, like, she ordered gin martinis because this character she was playing would order gin martinis.

Like, she just wanted to be someone else.

Yeah.

On the dating scene.

I think the line that really, I guess, got a lot of people in that sense was when she was like, being a New Yorker made being a single mom feel sexier, bohemian, or at least that's what I told myself.

I wasn't driving a minivan to the grocery store.

I was carrying my stroller up stairwells and yelling at loud neighbors all while wearing my mini skirt and eyeliner.

Erin Brockovich on Canal Street.

And I think people have misunderstood that part because she's saying like she was convincing herself that it was like bohemian and cool to be like- It was chic and interesting, yeah.

It was chic if you were a single mother in New York, whereas a lot of single mothers are upset in the comments saying it's not bohemian.

Like there's a lot of people in the comments being like, I'm tired and exhausted and I don't have the help that you have and I'm a single mother and it's really hard.

And I think like-

that's not what she was trying.

Like, I do think that's the one part where I'm like, I think she's admitting that, like, she has all of this privilege and help.

And so she was trying to convince herself, look how cool and amazing this can be.

Yeah, that would make people feel like shit.

bad about that that I made such a big life decision with the wrong person yeah I think that's the thing she's not intentionally setting out to make other single mothers feel like she's like she's one of you she's not as much as we're saying yes she has help and everything she's talking about her own personal reflections on how she didn't expect to find herself yeah in this and she doesn't want to feel like she's lost herself to this man who treated her badly yeah that she's going out and kind of like it's more about her relationship to her ex than her son it's

Yeah.

Which I think is, like, really telling in how she talks about, like, she'd never had one-night stands before.