Yeah, I was thinking about FSoG even before it appeared in the quotation from Lily. There was a lot of debate a few years ago (including at Jezebel) between people who condemned the books for promoting dangerous ideas, and people who said we should give some credit to James’ audience of (mostly) adults, who presumably…

What’s the evidence that they were lying?

This comment section (such as it is - it’s still early) appears to be more or less ambivalent on the subject of exploitation. I want to know where all the people are who were saying “PORN IS INHERENTLY VIOLENT AND IT SHOULD BE ILLEGAL” after the horrifying article about Leigh Raven and Riley Nixon. It’s almost like…

I saved the “Saddam and Osama Adopt Shaved Ape Baby” issue for years. I hope I didn’t throw it out or lose it in my last move, because it was an amazing artifact of the early aughts. The second headline was “Bush To Make Square Dancing Compulsory For All Americans.” Pure gold.

I also related to him a lot. When I was a wee little budding cook in my early 20's, I worked with a chef who taught me everything about cooking that I hadn’t learned from my mom. He gave me a copy of Kitchen Confidential. I recognized so much of my own life in Bourdain’s account of the joys and sorrows of kitchen…

I also related to him a lot. When I was a wee little budding cook in my early 20's, I worked with a chef who taught me everything about cooking that I hadn’t learned from my mom. He gave me a copy of Kitchen Confidential. I recognized so much of my own life in Bourdain’s account of the joys and sorrows of kitchen…

I also related to him a lot. When I was a wee little budding cook in my early 20's, I worked with a chef who taught me everything about cooking that I hadn’t learned from my mom. He gave me a copy of Kitchen Confidential. I recognized so much of my own life in his description of the joys and sorrows of kitchen…

Yeah, totally. It’s unfortunate that the things that actually make Vancouver the unique place it is - the very much living indigenous cultures, the rainbow of immigrant cultures, the gay village, the city’s former status as a centre for itinerant labourers, hippies, and other kinds of social outsiders - none of those…

I lived in Vancouver for years. My first thought when I recognized the city in her video was, “The odds that she actually acquired that fake-sounding accent from her surroundings just dropped from ‘plausible but unlikely’ to ‘effectively zero.’”

Took me a minute to figure out where I’d seen this before.

There’s something really creepy about calling yourself “Loyalty.”

As a Canadian, I feel the need to point out that competition to get into undergrad programs at most universities here is based almost solely on your high school transcript. I’d be surprised if the admissions departments so much as google applicants. It’s also not really a huge deal to get into a “prestigious” school…

Sometimes I could swear that a lot of people who think they have rational “conservative” opinions are really just people who have an appallingly low level of reading comprehension and ability to digest information. There is something deeply wrong with the education system that produced these people.

Did you hear about governmentsgetgirlfriends when that was a thing?

Oh my goodness you’re right! My memory was playing tricks on me. Attempted mass killing anyway.

Yeah, that’s it exactly. I think his declaration of “oh goodness no, I would never actually rape anyone” is probably just toeing a line (although rapists generally don’t call themselves rapists anyway). I also love how he says “she had no reason to be afraid of me.” Yeah sure, dude who deliberately stalks teenage…

The photo on the right was taken just before she threw the fish in the water and walked away, and just after the photographer said, “I’m not convinced. Give me more sex. You’re hot for the dead fish. No dammit, you still have that weird look on your face.”

Of all the stuff that’s scary here, this part is the most viscerally scary for me, because he’s reducing her to an animal. An infant animal. An infant prey animal. One that’s commonly hunted for sport. What is, this, The Night of the Hunter for internet creeps? 

Yeah, I’m starting to feel like this is sort of like a neo-nazi gang situation. I’ve heard of former neo-nazis doing community outreach to convince young people not to go down that path, so maybe a former incel (incels have been around for long enough now that there’s gotta be a few out there) could do similar work.