I agree. From what I understand, Eminem has a lot of cred, and I’m sure this is why.

Yeah, tl;dr! I want to know.

It’s not new ground, but I think it should tell us something that this thing that’s been going on since much less “enlightened” times (since the minstrel shows - no, scratch that, since there was a fad in Europe for imitating Moorish culture in the middle ages) is still here.

This really just sums it all up.

I hope you (Joan and the editors) are listening to all the negative comments here, and I hope you know where they’re coming from. Most people don’t appreciate flippancy about trench warfare (for some weird reason!).

This sums up my feelings pretty well.

I always thought the consensus was that stabbing or shooting a pregnant woman in the belly ranks as one of the cruelest acts imaginable. I’ve think I’ve heard it mentioned as a war crime in different times and places (Nazi concentration camps, the Boer War, the Nanking Massacre). A war crime against women.

Maybe we should tell them that they can get maximum value from the testicular implants by putting them in their foreheads, where they’re visible to everyone. Better yet, just get the scrotum and testicles grafted onto your face with the implants. Women go crazy for that.

Ah, okay. I keep forgetting you can look at people’s comment history.

Songwriting and poetry writing are two different skills, I think.

You got her login info? This is a joke...right? Just checking that this is a joke.

Thanks. This happened 14 years ago, and I’ve definitely gotten better, in terms of both mental health and basic adulting skills. I actually think the whole thing is hilarious. :)

This would make more sense if it said “SAVAGE SHART.”

Okay, but my youthful fashion crimes had a much lower budget. Exhibit A: an atrocity of a skirt that I made myself out of some old sea foam green curtains. Exhibit B: cast-off shirts of my dad’s with fraying sleeves and collars that I rescued from the garbage, because grunge was still cool. Etc.

I’ve never read Jane Eyre either. It’s on my to-read list as well. I definitely have a soft spot for stories about people who are at least trying to be good (after all, that’s most of us, isn’t it?), so I’ll see which side I come out on.

I feel a little sorry for Heathcliff because he never really had a chance, but of course I’m only halfway through the book, so maybe he’s about to get even worse. I think we can assume that his own early childhood was horrific and psychologically scarring, so it’s kind of hard to see how he could be any other way.…

Yes! It’s like Emily Brontë consciously set out to create the most unpleasant characters she could, and I have to say I dig it.

This is excellent in so many ways.

From my mom:
A person’s political or religious beliefs are not a good predictor of how well they treat other people.

I just got around to reading Wuthering Heights, and I’m roughly halfway through. Since I know a lot of you out there are bookworms, I’m wondering whether anyone else has read it and wants to discuss it.