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kottke.org posts about Amy Sohn

Sex, lies, and Park Slope

You may have read Amy Sohn’s piece in The Awl last month about Park Slope’s sexynaughty parents.

When “Girls” hit this spring, I was shocked by how true the show rang to my life โ€” not my old life as a post-collegiate single girl but my new one, as a married, monogamous, home-owning mother. My generation of moms isn’t getting shocking HPV news (we’re so old we’ve cleared it), or having anal sex with near-strangers, or smoking crack in Bushwick. But we’re masturbating excessively, cheating on good people, doing coke in newly price-inflated townhouses, and sexting compulsively โ€” though rarely with our partners. Our children now school-aged, our marriages entering their second decade, we are avoiding the big questions โ€” Should I quit my job? Have another child? Divorce? โ€” by behaving like a bunch of crazy twentysomething hipsters. Call us the Regressives.

Jake Dobkin interviewed Sohn about the piece and her new book for Gothamist. Well, he attempted to anyway.

Can I suggest that maybe you’re just hanging out with the wrong group of people? I mean, if everyone around you is throwing back Xanax and raw-dogging it just to FEEL SOMETHING and then having unplanned kids because they’re too stupid to use birth control, is it possible it’s not Park Slope’s fault, and rather, it might be hanging around with really immature people?

(via @djacobs)