Listicle Without Commentary: Reactions to a Photograph of Rachel Maddow & Ira Glass

Comments added to “reblogs” of the following photograph of Rachel Maddow & Ira Glass, Together, published on Autostraddle Tumblr and taken from New York Magazine:

1. “Rachel and Ira look like the same ultra attractive person at opposite ends of the gender spectrum. UNF.” (affably)
2. “If these two people had a baby i would want to look like that baby.” (besttumblr)
3. “I am exploding into a big ball of melting Ira ice cream that doesn’t even make sense.” (seaponies)
4. “So they are not the same person.” (teallikethecolor)
5. “This reminds me, I am going back to Smith College SO SOON. THANK FUCKING GOODNESS. Northern California, it’s been… chill.” (carborundorum)
6. “You are looking at my sexual desires all in one image.” (delicate bone)

[“listicle without commentary” title stolen from the awl]

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Riese is the 43-year-old Co-Founder of Autostraddle.com as well as an award-winning writer, video-maker, LGBTQ+ Marketing consultant and aspiring cyber-performance artist who grew up in Michigan, lost her mind in New York and now lives in Los Angeles. Her work has appeared in nine books, magazines including Marie Claire and Curve, and all over the web including Nylon, Queerty, Nerve, Bitch, Emily Books and Jezebel. She had a very popular personal blog once upon a time, and then she recapped The L Word, and then she had the idea to make this place, and now here we all are! In 2016, she was nominated for a GLAAD Award for Outstanding Digital Journalism. She's Jewish and has a cute dog named Carol. Follow her on twitter and instagram.

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12 Comments

  1. Hm. I wish this photo was one of those family photos you put in your hallway. But in my house. Is that weird?

  2. I HAVE HAD DREAMS ABOUT THIS.

    Now I want to hear them talk to each other. It’d be an explosion of smartness.

  3. * gasp * Um. Host of NPR’s “This American Life.” Which is possibly the best thing ever. Or the world’s most depressing addiction. In a good way.

  4. Give Ira’s body language, I’m not sure he wants to be in the picture!

    (Love, love, love This American Life).

  5. I’m known in “dyke world” as a soft butch…much like Rachel…except Rachel is hot. I have to say, I’ve spent much of my life looking for the evasive lipstick lesbian. And now I’m thinking how is it that this soft butch intelligent, genltly funny, graceious, etc woman has so sparked such interest. I’ts like this unending desire to put my arms around her and give her the biggest hug-it transends sexy. It transends all things of which I formally had knowledge of. Amazing feeling.

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