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The sublime, feral pleasure of Girl Dinner Diaries

In an age where it feels like we should all know less about each other, there’s at least one place on the internet where you just want to know more: It’s called r/GirlDinnerDiaries. As its name suggests, the subreddit consists of women posting a photo of their meal accompanied by a brief story about what’s happening in their lives. That could look like a gripping saga about a raccoon that has chosen terrorism and theft. Or a woman insisting on riding on a motorcycle with the poster’s boyfriend. A large number of the posts are relationship-oriented: the various stages of dating (no...