If a woman writes an in-depth novel about human relationships, it’s romantic trash. If a man writes the same thing, it’s a searing study of the human condition; it’s Litrahture.

“... tinged with an arrogant sense of noblesse oblige.”

This is wonderful and so thoughtful. If the Times isn’t seriously considering Kelly as a voice they should include in future coverage of the romance genre, they know less than Jon Snow.

Great piece. What did he even mean, “nothing is at stake”? All fiction is fiction. The stakes are almost always high for the characters, and almost always zilch for the reader, except to the degree he/she becomes invested in the story. Gottlieb’s “criticism” of the romance novels he’s read is lazy writing, tinged with…

She’ll figure it out if she doesn’t already know. I would loathe hearing something like this from the side chick.

Who here rocked ICQ?

this is BS, how else am I supposed to talk to people?? ICQ , mIRC??

I’m responding to you, but huge thanks to all the women on this thread standing up for balding guys like me. I get really self-conscious looking at photos (especially when older ones pop up on FB), so it’s nice to hear from others that it’ll be ok

She has an infectious laugh. I do too.

I think that’s a sane and kind-to-yourself reaction.

I have my own body image issues and wish my nose was smaller, etc. Is it weird that my reaction after reading this was to try to love myself more?

That must have caused quite a chakra.

I took a hot yoga class that someone came too dressed up in taped on heavy duty garbage bags all over covering their body. Yes it was a weird crinkly plastic sound for an hour and half. I’ve laughed my hardest during yoga classes for anyone that has never taken a yoga class go to a truly smallish city where there are…

Ahem.

Fortunately no.

Beautiful! I hope Ramona is a little bit like Ramona Quimby- she taught me how to turn an uppercase Q into a kitty cat by adding ears and whiskers!

I love both Ramona and her biographer

Ladies and Gents:

I have been looking for this glorious social media gaffe to show up on Jezebel today because it has consumed my life. So. This happened to NPR. Someone meant to post something to his personal page, but he posted it to the NPR page. The problem is that this happened yesterday, and it’s been such a shitshow of a couple…