Every other week (ish) we ask the girlies on instagram what shows they are binging, and what shows they are passing on. This week the girlies let us know Love Story: JFK Jr. and Carolyn Bessette is en route to becoming a hyperfixation.

This has lead to some online fantasizing about what iconic couple we would most want the FX scripted show treatment for.

🏀 Everyone Watches Women’s Sports. ESPN announced Women’s Sports Sundays, a primetime block dedicated entirely to women’s sports premiering this summer. While we’re checking things off, let’s go ahead pay the women athletes fairly.

🐒 We can all cancel our flights to Japan — Punch the baby monkey has been adopted by an older monkey. After being abandoned by his mother following a difficult birth, Punch was getting bullied on the monkey playground and clinging to a plush orangutan for comfort — sending the internet into a emotional shambles. I personally cried 3x.

🤑 Excuse us while we continue to scream “women ARE the economy.” The new “Wuthering Heights” adaptation just debuted at $34.8M. If you give women angst, cinematography, and a cottage on a cliff, we will show up.

💉 Gardasil, we trusted you. Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi shared she was diagnosed with stage 1 cervical cancer and thankfully has successfully treated. Snookie is using this time to remind everyone: go get your Pap smears. Seriously, do you have yours scheduled?

📎 We love an authentic girlie, and the “staples baddie” is giving a viral spotlight to the office supply store by highlighting niche products and services like only a Gen Z can.

🕊️ We weren’t ready to say goodbye to McSteamy and we weren’t ready to say goodby to Eric Dane only 10 months after he announced his ALS diagnosis publicly. A GoFundMe is now circulating to support his two daughters.

🎶 Bruno Mars is dropping new music, and the track list is already has us bracing for impact.

👠 Red carpet hard launch alert. Paul Mescal and Gracie Abrams made their debut as a couple on the carpet at the BAFTAS last night.

Carol: I’m one ice dance routine away from signing up for adult ice skating classes. But before I can commit to blades and sequins, I need to do something very adult. I need to stretch. The state of my ligaments after 30 is genuinely concerning.

When “commandos” popped up on the board at my gym this week, I felt like I was having a war flashback and then it came to me. After deep reflection, I have concluded there is no one to blame for the state of my hamstrings except Kayla Itsines.

Kayla, creator of BBG (Bikini Body Guide, millennials we have endured), was the original fitness girlboss. She gave us a PDF workout program that we dutifully PRINTED OUT and physically carried to our apartment complex gyms like a syllabus for pain. It was deceptively hard. How could such simple movements inflict such suffering? Jump squats. Commandos. Burpees. Psychological warfare.

At the height of my BBG era, I was waking up at 6:00am and doing jump squats by 6:04am. There was no post workout routine. Now, years later, stretching is more than humbling. I can touch my chin to my chest and feel a pull down my spine all the way to my butt. I WAS A CHEERLEADER, damnit. Does that not count for something? I recently saw that Kayla sold BBG, later rolled into the Sweat app, for a reported $400 million. I hope my hamstrings were worth it, Kayla.

Sidebar: After revisiting BBG and watching Reality Check: America’s Next Top Model I was reminded how much body psychosis we have been forced to endure as women, specifically millennials and Gen X and I would just like to offer a virtual hug to every woman.

Skylar: One thing you need to know about me? I don’t love sports for the strategy or the stats. I love them for the stories. Give me an underdog, a family legacy, a charged locker room speech, a chip on a shoulder, and I am emotionally enlisted.

This week, USA faced Canada for Olympic gold in a game that had all the “on paper” stats stacked against us, and yet somehow felt like destiny. Canada’s men’s team has won gold nine times. They defeated the U.S. most recently in 2010 in Vancouver. The last time the United States won gold was that “Miracle” in Lake Placid in 1980. Both teams were undefeated going into today. Both had overtime wins to get there. Of the 20 Olympic matchups between these two, Canada has won 12. The U.S.? Just four. Canada entered as the top scoring and top shooting team in the tournament.

On paper, Canada was the favorite.

But inside that U.S. locker room? It was about more than a medal.

We won in overtime. We lost teeth. We watched family legacies cheer on the United States to victory.

But what broke me (in the best way) was how the team honored Johnny Gaudreau. They carried his sweater onto the ice after the win and brought his kids into the gold medal team photo. It was beautiful and human and exactly why I will always cry over a scoreboard. For a few hours, we were united in something simple: heart. I wrote about the whole thing, and why I’ll never stop loving sports on our Substack.

This week we stopped our scrolling to read about the nightclub that went viral for having different entry ages for men and women.

Olympians cheering over restocked condoms.

And this post about what three fragrances you’d rebuy if you lost your whole collection. Great way to see what girlies with similar scent preferences are into.

The closing ceremony for the 2026 Winter Olympic Games in Italy is today, and with it goes our flame of joy from the past two weeks. We’ll be in need of an instant serotonin boost, so please feel free to email us anything keeping your spirits up this week.

We have some very exciting live show news on the horizon, and we look forward to growing the girlie community this year 👀. Before we announce anything new, we wanted to remind you Charlotte girlies have two chances to see us live in March.

On Friday 3/27 we’ll be at OMB with Front Paige Media, and some spicy sports romance authors.

And on Sunday 3/29 we’ll be at Duckworths Comedy Club for a special stand up forward night for the girlies.

Last week we wanted to know what single question would let you know if someone was a potential friend when answered. The reality is, it’s reality (tv).

Almost half of you believe that knowing what reality tv universe someone loves will indicate if you’re likely to be friends. Under 15% of you said the store you can’t live without and the album you were obsessed with in high school were also good indicators.

A note from Carol: Remainder to get to 100% is true crime and it was me and HONESTLY I DON’T EVEN KNOW THAT I BELIEVE IT

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