the best care & feeding ever

[watersword]

Dear Care and Feeding,

My adult daughter keeps pressuring me to let her show me Midsommar, but she pulled this “it’s not that scary” line with me two years ago for Get Out and I didn’t sleep for days. Can she be trusted?

—Suspicious

Dear Suspicious,

Mom, you used your actual email address to send this to Slate. Just watch Midsommar with me! It’s mostly atmospheric. Helps if you’re a woman. I was upbeat for days afterward.

—Nicole

Comments

[welcomingsong]

Hah! Yup, definitely the best question ever.

[ashbet]

Bwahahahah!! :D

[ambyr]

I get why people find it amusing, but also, as someone who has resisted a lot of pressure to see Get Out and is absolutely not going to see Midsommar: not all art is for everyone, and it's kind of obnoxious to get told over and over how "important" it is to see a specific work of fiction.

[eva_rosen]

Yes to this. Why force someone into something they will likely not enjoy, and could probably be harmful to them? (the nightmares thing doesn't sound fun).

[rosefox]

Yeah, if her mom actually did send this and it's a joke between them, that's fine, but if Nicole made this up as a way to pressure her mom further, that's... not fine.

[conuly]

!!!!!!!!!!