Well, didn't react in the sense that you didn't make a fuss, or didn't react in the sense that you didn't feel upset? The thread-starter didn't feel at all upset. I'm certain all women have experienced being assaulted in ways like this because we're frozen, and then we think it's too late to say anything, and then…

The point about my daughters was also meant to be that it's not that women are afraid a worse thing will happen or that as women they have experienced many assaults of this type (although these things are both true). It's that, as children, they have experienced a number of assaults of this type. Gropers and guys like…

I just thought that you were mildly surprised by your non-reaction to the assault, and wanted to know why other people found it so disturbing. I was suggesting that since we knew rape would be upsetting, we could find some non-rape assault that was still bad enough for you to experience extreme emotional upset. Then…

Further, consider: my 12-year-old daughter is old enough to ride public transport by herself now. But I had to have a talk with her in which I explained that adult men would say revolting sexual things to her, expose themselves, grab her ass or tits, especially when everyone's packed into the subway car, or masturbate…

What is the level of sexually-intended assault that you think would phase or upset you, short of rape? This guy just grabbed your ass; what if he had stood right behind you while you were texting someone on a subway platform, and come through your legs to grab your crotch? While saying horrible things in your ear?…

What? NOOOOO! Moby-Dick is wonderful and moving and philosophical and hilarious! LOVE IT!!!

Fecking incomprehensible, is how we find it. I had to read it twice and still missed many, many things because it was before the internet; when in audio-book form read by someone with an Irish accent it's waaaay more comprehensible.

Army of 2! I re-read it.

What is this bullshit with only reading Swann's Way, even? If people are going to read Proust to be superior, they should read the whole thing. Similarly, you should just read the whole thing for pleasure because you can't understand how awesome the structure is if you stop there!!! It's long but just imagine it's a…

You know me! Sort of. Like, I'm only an imaginary person on the internet, but I love Ulysses. I read it when I was 17, but I didn't know what the fuck was going on (this was before the internet could explain things to people). Nonetheless I persevered and it's worth it! (I read really fast so this was a viable option…

As the mom of a person who herself, at 12, has boobs that are more or less the same size as mine (we both have the tiny set sported by most of the models in this spread though hers are higher, naturally) I wear a nude camisole or a nude-colored lace bandeau under sheer silk blouses nowadays. Back in the day my people…

Don't body-shame her about having eight nipples, dude! She can wear whatever she feels like.

You revolt against these studies because we are all are inclined to think we are purely rational actors, nearing "brain in a vat"-level independence when in comes to decision-making. We weigh the evidence, make up our minds, and send signals to our body that will carry out those decisions. But this is false in a…

My family has always had plenty of money, but I know that many other families don't, and that sometimes funeral costs end up draining a family of the savings they were trying to put aside for an emergency. I have seen a black woman in the South get scammed with expensive funeral insurance schemes that cost more than…

Dude, if your kid got kidnapped, would you like the newspaper to say, "then the three men repeatedly had sex with _your four-year-old-son_" Or would you think, what the fuck? My four-year-old doesn't and can't have sex with anyone? That's not a category of act he can participate in.

That's straight-up street harassment; everybody's allowed to hate on that infinity. Right now, I'm hating every dude that's ever said that to you, and I don't even know you!

Luckily I'm lying in bed alone at 12:39 pm listening to Dylan's "Brand-New Leopard-Skin Pillbox Hat" and can laugh as much as I want.

Sorry, ain't nothing in the world powerful enough to have those curses removed. Those are blood rubies to the infinity power.

That's also what we say in South Carolina. Well, it's the South down to around about St. Augustine, and along the coast by the Gulf of Mexico at it's northernmost edge, but other than that, no, because it's made up entirely of New Yorkers. Well, and Cubans, I guess, but that's it's own thing.

It doesn't get much more racist than East Texas, and that's the truth. Arkansas wakes up in the morning and looks around and says, 'well, I ain't East Texas and I ain't Mississippi. I got two things going for me already.'