SOMEBODY IS STILL TRYING TO MANIPULATE ME

Yep. I think Penny-haters are falling into Martin's trap here—we see Penny the way Tyrion sees Penny, with all his high-born arrogance and superior intellect. In a way, he treats her the way he's been treated—with a sort of contempt, though his own compassion kicks in because he's a kind person.

She also serves as an interesting foil for his character - in some ways, she's far more naive and optimistic, but in others she's far more cynical and wordly. She really shines a light both on the ways Tyrion has had it easy and the ways he's had it incredibly hard.

THIS is why I put a password on my phone every morning when I leave for work. God knows what my coworkers would do if they could get on my phone. Literally 5 minutes ago I walked into my office and a coworker was standing there, "I was going to hide your phone and see what happened." !!!

If this had existed for men when I was younger I might not have been forced to kill my fake girlfriend.

I have the distinct impression that the showrunners read "A Dance with Dragons" and said, "WTF? We're supposed to make a film out of this rambling, inconsequential nonsense? What happened to the story?" Then they cut 90% of it. I also suspect that whenever G.R.R. Martin emails with "Hey, guys, I'll be done with "The…

I genuinely got creeped out/sad by the response to the first question, "a co worker won't leave me alone." Honestly, the idea that there's a place in the world for this crap because women have to go to work every day and there's some asshole there who keeps asking them out, or trying to fix them up.

Two thoughts.

ladies, you don't need to pay 25 bucks a month on a useless boyfriend when I'm willing to be your useless boyfriend for a mere 20$!

Basically, they say that you have to get damaged in order for them to do something, so they do nothing, but if you do get damaged, they'll tell you you should have been safer and will then do nothing because it was your fault.

"People who haven't really suffered yet think it's edgy and shows you have a thick skin and a good sense of humor to laugh at other people's suffering. ("I'm so tough; this video of a beheading doesn't faze me at all." "Tee hee, it's hilarious to harass the parents of a kid who committed suicide, because I don't know…

Holy shit, that's horrible! Yes, I certainly can't imagine why anyone would assume that staking out a person's house and knocking on windows while the occupant hides and calls the cops would indicate that they weren't wanted! Definitely, you should have opened the door and told him to go away! There was no possible…

I think the thing that made me the most upset was, if they had just asked me the right questions in the very beginning, I could have avoided wasting all my time and energy and emotions on it. If the very first prosecutor had said, "At any time did you open your door and tell him to leave the property?" I would have…

baeface that is a goat, you goof xoxoxo

And thank you, and all the volunteer mods. I know it gets bananas down here.

"More then 2hours and no tweet about all the shit weve [sic] done," one complained.

Wow. Outstanding piece, thank you so much for sharing your personal story along with the truly stellar research and interviewing. I'm really glad you're at Jezebel, your articles are always among the best on any given day.

I think the thinking is "It's stupid to have feelings and if I make you show them by scaring you, threatening you, or harassing you, I WIN."

Thank you for writing this.

Maybe it would get better if a bunch of women celebrities were affected, like if people posted nude pictures of them all over the internet...