- NYT columnist David Brooks claims that a friend with “only a high school education” was baffled by an Italian sandwich shop, and Jen has all the thoughts.

- Gigi Hadid and Zayn Malik say they don’t conform to binary gender norms, and Jen suggests some situations in which gender very quickly feels very binary.

- An article criticized big families for overpopulating the world, and Jen lists famous people like Stephen Colbert, Thomas Edison, and Celine Dion who are therefore technically “overpopulation.”