Read the Vulture piece. The grad student sounds like the only one with an acutal head on her shoulders.

I’m of the opinion that no apology at all is better than a forced one. Just own it. Be proud of being a thin-skinned bully who seems to have a lot of free time on their hands.

“Nelson, who is now a graduate student in linguistics studying online harassment”

“I want to apologize to the person”

So a female college student attempted to raise the level of discourse on her campus by removing books written for young teens from the recommended reading list. Seems like a good thing. It is infantilizing for the college students to have children’s books recommended for them. Sure it might be enjoyable to read these…

My favorite (/s) response to Dessen’s tweet was when someone replied “Fuck that fucking bitch.”, and Dessen replied to that with “I love you. [heart emoji]”.

Could be she saw an opportunity to bring attention to herself to sell more books.

She should figure out why she takes someone not liking her work as a personal attack on her character. 

This reminds me of when Nicholas Sparks said he doesn’t write romance novels and that he was actually the natural successor to Hemingway, Shakespeare, and Euripides. (I’m 100% serious about this.)

Remove the google alert on your name. It will make your life much better. 

Well I for one am shocked that Jennifer Weiner would overreact and then play the victim rather than actually defending the substance of something. 

asdkfjdk my GOD woman, get your head out of your ass. Sarah, you write shitty teen romance YA, you’re not out here writing the next Booker Prize novel. Of course a college junior, who is presumably in her twenties and you know, at university to challenge herself academically, wants to read something with more…

I’m with the student. YA books are fine, and I don’t care if other adults like them, but I applaud college students seeking more challenging material. Caveat: I have never read (or heard of) Dessen before this, so I don’t know if she’s actually YA.

Why would anyone care which books Northern State University choose for Common Read? Undergraduate enrollment is 1500 and it’s in freaking South Dakota. I get that it sucks when someone hates on your shit, but this seems like a dumb thing to make a stand on.

How would Dessen even find this criticism?

No it wasn’t, but that hardly matters. Specifics differ from state-to-state, but schools absolutely have the right (legally) to discipline students for behavior that happens outside of school or when school is not in session. We’re talking about a picture of a one of their students in full-on blackface and afro wig…

No, wearing blackface isn’t a crime. But it’s worth while for the cops to know who are the racist dumbfucks in the community, so they know where to start when the swastika graffiti shows up.  

I think ACA is popular in a lot of red states, they just don’t like Obamacare and will never recognize or admit that they’re the same damn thing.

If you still support Kanye West you deserve to be swindled out of your money while the rest of us laugh at your misfortune.

Pointing out that you should be really careful about taking nude photos in this age isn’t really victim blaming, it’s just true.