Hear, hear! Excellent. I too think we need to get rid of this "true self" hogwash. Same with "authentic self." We are what we are and what we are changes from hour to hour. Absolutely wonderful expression of what I feel but couldn't put into words as eloquently.

I just had a guy at school tell me he thought I wouldn't be a nice person because he overheard me cussing "enough to peel the paint off the walls" one day at lunch. Then he realized that he made a snap judgment and that I am really very nice. Are you FUCKING KIDDING ME????

Hells yes!!! OK, maybe not so much Roseanne Barr for me, but definitely Ms. Austen. Have you checked out the Jane Austen Fight Club yet?

I like your interpretation a lot, but let's give credit where it is due... to YOU.

Ah, yes. Our awesome Culture of Outrage. Here's the REAL problem: the measure of what American society is finding to be "extreme and outrageous" and "beyond all bounds of human decency" has become alarmingly low.

AGREED!!!

One in four women in the U.S. is sexually abused at least once in her lifetime - many by male relatives including fathers, uncles and grandfathers. Even if this is a hoax, I am totally not OK with any portrayal that father-daughter sexual love is normal or something that needs to be accepted by our society.

I hope that being featured on NatGeo's Taboo program garners these people a knock on the door by the powers that be at the Social Security Administration.

I don't think you are alone in any of these thoughts. Once you have them (and go through the seeming horror of pregnancy) you're stuck. Ugh.

Love it!! And I agree. I hate that question. My husband and I get it all the time. I think it's just part of that "misery loves company" mentality. They're miserable, so you should be too!

Just found, and ate, an orange-flavored Cadbury Creme Egg. Yum!! Walgreen's. Front of the store. Total impulse buy.

WHHHHAAATTT? For real?? Sounds like heaven! Do they ship nationwide?

Bwahahahahaha! Love it! And frankly, you're right!!

I like pretty much anything by Lisa Kleypas. Also, just read one in which the male hero "pleasured himself" while thinking of the heroine. Surprisingly HOT. I'll post the title when I get home. You will thank me, I promise!!

Is it just me, or does this John Warner vague resemble that Jigsaw character in those horrible saw movies? Exaggerated cheeks and chin? Even if she was a little heavier, he was damn lucky to have landed such a hot woman. DAMN lucky.

The "body snarking" to which you are referring are those modern-day references designed to belittle women or make them feel less-than by saying if you only look one way (whether skinny-skinny or voluptuous) you are acceptable.

Law school. Turning nerds into assholes right before my very eyes. Blech.

Hear, hear!! I think I might have to incorporate the word "shiteous" into my vocabulary too.

You know, the evolution of the romance novel is particularly fascinating if one were to do a little research instead of taking the easy way out by lampooning a very rich genre using obviously crap examples. Romance is the top selling book genre in the U.S. Need I say this is because it is driven by women (mainly) and…

@MadFab: Sadly, I have to agree with you here. There was a time when I was BEGGING for more Gaga, but then she waited so long to release anything fresh, my love has grown cold. Now her next song is called "Shit?" Oy. 10th grade indeed. Bad Gaga. Bad.