Selma’s Choice Hit Me Harder at 35 Even Though I Don’t Want Kids

Having seen the show as a child when it was still fresh and edgy in the 1990s, this episode smarts differently in my thirties at the dawn of the 2020s.

14 min readJul 20, 2020

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©Disney, 20th Century Fox // Selma cradles Jub-Jub the iguana, an image that may have had a larger impact on me as an eight-year-old than I realized.

Like many people who grew up in America in the 1990s, The Simpsons…

Rachel Presser

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Game dev, writer, small biz & tax consultant to indie devs. That loud socialist Frog Slut from The Bronx, now in Angel City. https://linktr.ee/sonictoad

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