ashleyreese
Ashley Reese
ashleyreese
Jezebel staff writer and famed mint chocolate hater dedicated to the intersection of politics, pop culture, and weird internet shit.

Sweet, loving, seeks affection, easily distracted, gets into everything, wants to chase birds and squirrels? There’s a reason we called little rainjump (complete with ADHD) our golden retriever puppy when he was small. At 16 - yeah, you can still see it. He’s also too smart for his own good but is excellent at hiding Read more

This article made my heart happy. I grew up with several goldens and they really were the best. Ours were definitely not himbos they were too smart for our own good. My mom used to send our golden out to fetch me when it was time for dinner when I would be running around the neighborhood! Now that I am working from Read more

Goldens: “Why would you want to bust that guy and put him in jail? If he’s in jail, he can’t play with me...... Read more

Yah, I can definitely buy goldens as himbos. I wonder how you might class other breeds. Pugs are the Danny Devito of the dog world. Hounds are mansplainers who will never stop talking over you.  Read more

Goldens understand that finding drugs and pleasing their handler will make them happy, but that 2-day-old french fry under the chair several gates away would make them happier. Read more

Wow, there is a pissy little commenter who has been showing up who can’t decide what they hate more, dogs, feminism, or himbos. Fun! Read more

Fun fact that I read somewhere and am probably wrong about but will present as truth: Goldens have the best sense of smell, but Shepards are chosen as drug sniffing dogs because Shepards want to please and will find things, while Goldens are too smart and will go "this is dumb, I want to do something else." Read more

I see Adrien Brody has completed his transformation into Robert De Niro Read more

They do look great. On a personal level, I’ve had it with black and white. It’s my own fault. I’m not a clothes person and it’s easier to look decent wearing black and white—usually together. But I’ve had it. The handful of colorful things hidden away in my closet are being worn. I’m wearing ‘French’ blue today. I’m Read more

Though I am a gay, and a princess of sorts, I can concur that the Tattoo Boyfriends DO have a certain fascination for me, and I—them. Read more

I’m relatively heavily tattooed and I date preppy looking guys pretty much exclusively. I also don’t feel I’ve ever really been judged for them, though I do tend to keep them under wraps when meeting family the first few times. Read more

I love this Ashley! For a few years I was running pretty wild, tattoos aside. I’ll never forget dating a guy and realizing I was “tattoo boyfriend” to him. Killed the vibe for me, I didn’t want to be some guy’s walk on the wild side. It does seem a very heavily gendered concept/ men are wild / women are lured to it. I Read more

This is interesting because I was just telling my husband I’ve seen many tattooed men with preppy ladies, but not once ever have I seen a heavily tattooed woman with a preppy guy. I know women are still judged MUCH more harshly for body modifications (and of course everything else in life.) My cousin recently got a Read more

I grew up in the skater/punk scene of the 90s, and this was the norm. All of my skater guy friends were after the hot, normal girls. Honestly, it seemed like mutual, sexual attraction for people from different worlds to hook up. I ended up marrying a normal guy, and I’m covered in tattoos. He definitely thought he was Read more

I think there are often different standards for this between musicians and actors.  It’s fine for a musician to have tons of tats, they’re only ever being themselves.  Actors, well, it’s hard to play different characters when you always look like a specific type of character. Read more

I get what he’s saying, but woof, a Toastmaster this guy is not. Read more