Just love your kids.

I feel like 95% of Tracy Moore's posts are jokes that are just above my head. Logging in to a hook-up app with the intent to evaluate the fuckability of other potential partners is not the same thing as noticing a good-looking person on the street.

Yeah I really would want to read that content before flipping out because I work with a lot of men of all ages who don't get it and could actually benefit from some solid advice.

I know, I know, it's just my grad student tendencies coming out. I'll be better over winter break, I swear.

Actually reading the article before you start ignorantly making fun of it??!! What are you thinking?

Actually, title/image aside...it seems pretty good?

They don't want to make the world a better place - if they did they would have done so by now. how does desecrating a world heritage site do ANYTHING favourable for climate change? and apologizing for moral offense is literally "sorry if your feelings got hurt" which is a fuck you of an apology.

So you got far enough into it that you were comfortable to cut-and-paste from line three of this article, but literally couldn't make it to line five, where the praise takes place? Even my grandmother's peripheral vision would have picked that up.

Actually it was a division problem. How many times does 42 go into 15?

But Woody never tackled celebrity with this kind of lightness, and he also never came up with an astounding/disgusting joke about cum-stained sheets.

I don't get kids today. I'm far too impatient for internet videos that are actually of interest to me; I skip ahead and compulsively open new tabs while they play because I just cannot pay attention to them. I'd rather read a transcript most of the time. So I really just do not understand how legions of young people…

not really, considering that in other parts of the book, where the name was changed, it said so in the text as well. speaking as a defamation defense lawyer, it was a mistake to not be more explicit about it. maybe not actionable, but just sloppy. you know, you can be critical of LD once in while. it won't kill…

maybe. still, purely as a fact checker, we advocate "better safe than sorry" in these areas. I'm not saying the brouhaha isn't overkill, but it's really the smart thing to do when printing an accusation of a crime.

From the WaPo:

"Some names" were changed indicates some, most likely most, were not. And because Dunham in some instances in the text indicated names that had indeed been changed, a reasonable reader could infer "Barry" was not changed.

If it just says "some names" that's not enough to really clarify things and leaves open the possibility that any particular name and person could be completely real and accurate. Putting a note in that particular section that "Barry" is not the mans real name is the safest choice to make sure there is no confusion.

in my years as a fact checker at a few major magazines, stating that names have been changed is actually done to avoid these types of problems. I don't know if book publishers regularly do it too and this was an oversight, or if they just don't consider it an issue. but, really, it's the smart move to help avoid…

Sorry, Mark. Pretty misleading. Looks like all he did was joke back when she made a silly typo. She shut him down, for sure, but I was expecting a lot more than "It can be ;)" as a "pickup". Pretty weak.

Based on what? Broad shoulders? Being seven feet tall doesn't make you a bad ass, and it sure doesn't mean you know how to throw a punch. I'd be a lot more afraid of Tony Allen than Dwight Howard.

Oh god. Are you crying in your oatmeal? A song written by a 20 year-old somehow has societal relevance and has the power to shape the conversation about body image? You listen to music a lot more closely than I did when I was younger.