If finding himself in a battle now, in his 36th year in the Senate, feels insulting or painful or a little awkward, Mr. Lugar is not saying.
And while it's true that my children were endlessly fascinating, two petri dishes growing human cultures, being a mother never had been, and all that seemed assigned by default of gender I would not do because it felt insulting.
Add to that the social expectation that an unanswered text feels insulting to the sender, and you've got a recipe for addiction: you receive a text, and that activates your novelty centres.
The narrator, a mother of two boys, says of herself, "While it's true that my children were endlessly fascinating, two petri dishes growing human cultures, being a mother never had been, and all that seemed assigned by default of gender I would not do because it felt insulting".
I know that feels insulting.
To a Monkees fan at the time, without knowledge of the behind-the-scenes turmoil, the movie likely felt insulting or uncomfortably different.
To question one would feel like insulting a stoned, doddering grandparent.
It is, in every sense, the more immediate achievement: it hits and hurts the eyes (the rainy days are lousy enough, but the skies of royal blue, above such grief, feel especially insulting), and it also seems to bleed straight out of the headlines.
You may feel like insulting your best friend, boyfriend, or sister in the moment, but chances are, you'll feel like a fool in the long run.
