Thank you, I totally will! It's Friday and you're leaving!

The entitlement in telling another woman what to do with her eyebrows. I just — not to be obnoxious about it, but this is how women enact and enforce the patriarchy on one another.

Open carry, Patriot Act, Iraq War, militarization of police because 3,000 people died once. Constant drumbeat of war, fight 'em over there so we don't have to fight 'em over here, people defending the theater chains all over Gawker. Giving up freedom for security every day since 9/11.

To my mind — and I'm not Korean, but I know some people who do who have some ... thoughts about this — he (along with most of the higher-ups at SONY) is a sheltered North American white dude who thinks "What I think is funny herp derp!" takes priority and precedence over every other consideration.

And of course if you focus on the well-researched history, the medicine, the feminist philosophy , and the political intrigue, it's then ripped apart for not having ENOUGH romance.

This is part of the reason I've been writing about romance novels more lately — we're at a point where mystery novels and graphic novels and YA and science fiction and fantasy are all afforded some degree of open-mindedness by critics, and Game of Thrones is hugely popular and treated with a great deal of seriousness…

Yeah, there's been a lot of "HM so it's just romance? IDK, bodice rippers!!!" in the early reactions. Which annoys me on two levels. One, I hate the knee-jerk dismissal of romance novels. Two, while the book was initially marketed as romance and has a lot of romance fans and has some romance-y DNA, you're right, it's…