Strauss and the City

[Strauss and the City @LaDolceLB]

@style_mandate Amanda’s performance in ITC had one goal: dupe the audience into believing that she gave the relationship her best shot. West probably told her nothing could happen between them if she was married, so she constructed an exit. But here’s the problem: she’s an inauthentic idiot

[Strauss and the City @LaDolceLB]

@eilenslayvidson They weren’t even engaged. It’s giving high school. At some point in season 1-2, Kyle grew attached to the version of Amanda who chased him. Then he spent the next ten years waiting for that version to come back. He never should have been exclusive with her and never married her

[The Drunk Republican @DrunkRepub]

Architect: “What style did you have in mind?”

Obama: “Like a brutalist dystopian warlord hideout. You know, hopelessness and loss.”

Architect: “Say no more fam.”

[Strauss and the City @LaDolceLB]

@dumbbitchcap Rich women get their nails done lol. Everyone who claims rich women don’t wear makeup; don’t get fillers, Botox, or facelifts; drive beater cars; don’t go to salons (har or nails); etc. are confusing ex-hippie, boomer, Episcopalian retirees in Asheville with old money

[Strauss and the City @LaDolceLB]

@ItsBravoBtch Because Amanda started chasing Kyle so young, it appears she never had to experience a man rejecting her. Once you feel the deep shame and embarrassment of chasing and being shot down, you assume every man you’re attracted to is also attracted to you

[It’s Bravo @ItsBravoBtch]

Amanda telling Lindsay West was pursuing her and then admitting “it would be in group texts”? Does she not realize how stupid she sounds? You would have to waterboard out of me that I thought West inviting the group chat out meant he was pursuing me. She needs help. #SummerHouse

[Strauss and the City @LaDolceLB]

@WastgTimeWBravo Whitney is boring and has the same frail way of being that Amanda, when she’s at her most attractive to men, has. It’s an aura of needing to be saved and protected. Gavin isn’t attracted to her and before she came around, Kenny was fun, so he’s trying to highlight this indirectly

[Strauss and the City @LaDolceLB]

@GiaMMacool Cheap men exist, but they’re easy to sass out. If he’s a cheap boyfriend, he’ll be a cheap husband. That has little to do with what you’re contributing to the relationship; it’s a character flaw. Generosity is a virtue. But it’s not the end of the world if you make your own money

[Strauss and the City @LaDolceLB]

@EBryceLee @luxemiaa Yes, for the first five years we were married, then his friends shamed him so much that he stopped keeping “the tab” (spreadsheet of every charge). Men who are this way as boyfriends are also this way as husbands. It can work out, but don’t expect him to become someone who shares

[Strauss and the City @LaDolceLB]

@amandafortini Not true. They do everything, they just do it really well so you can’t tell. Even old money women want to look beautiful for as long as they can.

[Strauss and the City @LaDolceLB]

@emilykmay It’s not that serious Emily. It’s just doing your husband a favor not giving him a kidney

[Strauss and the City @LaDolceLB]

@GiffLasta @TheEcho13 You guys are getting neurotic. Last summer, my sister claimed to me that her body just “shut down” when her husband wanted sex. I told her that if she loved him, trusted him, and wanted to stay married, to just let him do what he wanted. She listened. By Christmas? Problem solved

[Strauss and the City @LaDolceLB]

@nescionihil @Pat_Stedman If you chose to marry a man, then ODS (within reason) is one of the benefits he gets out of the deal. If you end up hating him later for whatever reason (including becoming neurotic), then just leave. Don’t take a job, continue to collect a paycheck, but refuse to work.

[Strauss and the City @LaDolceLB]

@TheEcho13 “Dead bedrooms” X is so neurotic. Ladies, just hook up with your husband when he wants to, it’s not that hard. Men, if your wife is frigid and neurotic, just leave her. Unless she hates you, the very fact that you’re willing to do that will start to thaw that frigidity.