And these are the people who are worried their kids could get autism from vaccines...

Imagine having the freedom to make a comfortable living writing and reporting upon literally anything you want and deciding what you want to write and report on is that society is too mean to people who were complicit in the serial sexual abuse of minors. Because that is literally Malcolm Gladwell’s situation.

Gladwell’s work is a derivative commentary and thus no approval is required. 

Gladwell, a hack? No way. I’ve spent over 10,000 hours studying his work, so I can assure you that I am an expert.

You mean someone who made his whole career extrapolating anecdotes did lazy work vetting his resources? Say it isn’t so! He’s a hack and I’m not at all surprised that he didn’t think for one second about these victims as anything but fodder for a story. 

How curious that a guy that hung out with Jeffrey Epstein would either ignore women’s voices or use them without their consent in his book.

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…

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?