Trust me, she is 100% going to prison. The DOJ is not going to let her off at this point, not when they just sent some other rich guy to federal prison for six months. That is not the way they do things, and the case against her is strong enough that nothing is going to save her.

This is all about the differences in their respective public images.

In the age of Trump, I have stopped wondering why evangelicals are no longer apologizing for anything. Their new lord and savior doesn’t - why should they?

Also important: Felicity Huffman’s apology actually apologized to the people she hurt, and she admitted guilt in it. No “sorry if I caused hurt” or trying to explain her rationale. She said she knew what she did was wrong and caused hurt.

I remember seeing reruns as a kid, but I’m also too young. I think that it was inspirational to women in addition to being super male gazey. Women wanted to be the characters in the show. They were stylish, independent, bad ass ladies... as well as also fulfilling the sexy requirement.

It was kind of both:  Being able to have female spies on a show like that was empowering back in the ‘70s but they also made it super male gazey so they’d get eyeballs on the screen.

She’s got a point.

“But it is a heavy burden. So heavy that none could lay it on another. I do not lay it on you. But if you take it freely, I will say that your choice is right; and though all the mighty elf-friends of old, Hador, and Húrin, and Túrin, and Beren himself were assembled together your seat should be among them.”

My daughter is just on the cusp of being the right age for YA fiction. I’m looking forward to keeping a list of these authors so I can steer my kid away from them. I don’t want to put one cent of profit into the pockets of ”successful”women who would treat anyone like this - especially a young woman who is clearly…

The comments on the original Jez article were a shameful cesspool of white feminism. SO many Jezzies were defending these white female authors piling on a grad student for suggesting that Dessen’s milquetoast YA novels may not have been the best choice for collegiate readers and that a book about discrimination in the…

Jennifer Weiner has always made me uncomfortable, like she was an immature, self absorbed mean girl hiding in plain sight. I never understood the appeal or the acclaim. So her behavior in this incident did not surprise me, sadly. At least her apology was not the worst of the bunch.

Roxane Gay and NK Jemisin, to name two non-white women with privelege, were part of the pile on. The ingroup here is successful published authors.

Read the Vulture piece. The grad student sounds like the only one with an acutal head on her shoulders.

Oh, I believe she deserves her doctorate after going thru the bullshit these authors dumped on her.

I haven’t read any books by Dessen or any of the female YA authors listed. Now I will never read their books. Congrats ladies. Who’s the “fucking bitch” now?

“Writers are actual people you guys!”

The absolute irony here.

“I want to apologize to the person”

I want to apologize to the person who was quoted

Gee, I thought that Young Adult authors were ... not young adults, which is code for pubescent mean girls who bully others.