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My last post made me really evaluate my own opinion about each of the women. I subsequently realized that there’s no one I ACTUALLY like and that I’ve been only half watching for some time now. I also realized I know very little about each woman off-show.

To help me form a more well rounded opinion, could you guys tell me your general opinion on each cast member and/or your most/least “favorite”?

Also, I’m very happy to be proven wrong about who I consider my “favorite”. Like I said, this all comes purely from watching the show as I’m admittedly half paying attention and/or 💨

I would say my most “favorite” cast member is… god I don’t know. I feel like no matter what I say someone will point out something horrible about them that I didn’t know. If I had to pick yesterday it would have been Heather but I found out she doesn’t actually stand by her public persona of being the “liberal” one in private. It’s not about her political views in the end, it’s because she’s not who she says she is. I guess I’ll say Gina. I root for Gina.

My least favorite? Kelly Dodd. Fuck Kelly Dodd. I struggled so much in her seasons. She’s an agent of chaos and has hatred in her heart. It’s not even that she’s MAGA - the fact that she is is almost irrelevant to the strong opinions I already had of her before that became news. The way she treats other people, including her daughter, disgusts me. Fuck Kelly Dodd.

I have realized I have very little opinions on her bc so many of you feel so strongly about her. Can someone explain?

ETA I get that she’s maga now ty

She was adopting a dog and as someone that works in a shelter and sees a lot of returns and adoptions gone wrong I freaked out lol and was blowing up her comment section telling her what a bad idea that is when she can’t take care of her own kids.

This woman takes up too much of my brain space

I feel like McCall is going to be so boring

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What’s your SLOMW hot take? Don’t give me the obvious, like that Mikayla and Jace/Jen and Zack should divorce/all of them should wear condoms more often/Taylor should be removed from her kids. In fact let’s imagine Taylor was never on the cast.

My hot take is that Whitney was acting annoying in early seasons to get attention and play into that role so she’d have people at least talking about her. Then she used that to catapult onto DWTS. Basically that everything about her was calculated from jump. I even heard that she was the one who pitched SLOMW to Hulu. Idk maybe that’s obvious

Truly, it’s okay. This isn’t a trap. I just am curious. Because I never heard of any of these women before the show, and honestly I’ve never liked Taylor. From episode 1 I was totally put off by her chaos. Don’t get me wrong, she was good TV, but she made me uncomfortable.

To be honest it’s hard for me to say I’m a fan of any of them like actually besides maybe Miranda and Layla… I liked Demi season 1 and then season 2 happened. Mikayla for a while there and still kind of do but I don’t feel like attached to any of them like the stans do. They’re all interesting in their own ways (ETA and annoying in their own ways).

But I always knew I didn’t like Taylor.

Did you like her? If so, why?

I’ve been having a lot of anxiety as a fundraiser about my future job security. I keep seeing conflicting views online about AI and fundraisers. On one end of the spectrum, I see articles describing how AI agents close huge planned gifts via email. And if I don’t start utilizing AI, I’ll be left behind (even though it sounds like not being left behind means coming to the death of my profession). Then I see articles saying how the human connection is so essential to fundraising, and AI can never replace that. It can mimic empathy and great listening, but the heart of fundraising is intuitive in a way that a computer simply can’t be.

It does comfort me to know that AI can’t replace handwritten notes and lunches or coffees with donors. Facility tours. Interactions at events. It can’t replace the intuition that while someone CAN give a 6-figure gift, it’s inappropriate to ask for one just yet. It can’t replace the general connection that a fundraiser provides as a bridge between donor and organization.

I do understand how AI could be useful to my job - it just saddens me that the natural progression of that is eliminating positions and colleagues that i adore, like database professionals, and parts of the job that I like, such as writing annual appeals or personalized emails and newsletters for donors. Coming up with annual strategies. So even if I do have job security, it’s going to look so different.

What do you all think? Do I have a job in 3 years?