(for “how to talk to teenage boys” i put myself in the position of a teenage girl and thought of what i wished i’d known, or what i slowly figured out. this one, i’ve realized, is trickier. I never was a teenage boy. But I’ve known some teenage girls in my time, and I can [...]

or anyone, really 1. try and understand what they’re saying, even if you keep thinking they’re just stupid or insane. 2. try and get their jokes- try out their perspective on what’s funny. 3. remember that, like teenage girls, they are still largely a loose accumulation of how the world’s been marketed towards them, by [...]