Very good post, and even better Kinja handle.

Aw. That is so wise. And also, if she goes back alone, none of her starved friends needs to know.

Yep, two people and a large party are different experiences. And they’re especially different when you do things like decide to take 8 people at dinner rush hour, the busiest time of the night, on Friday, the busiest day of the week for most restaurants.

Verrier has been with The Ringer since 2017, before LeBron was even on the Lakers. Pretty sure Simmons didn’t hire him with the intentions of using him to attack Anthony Davis a year and a half later. Though maybe I’m wrong and Clairvoyant Bill has really upped his game.

The Ringer really missed the mark here. Melo is a hat-obsessed loser, not a self-obsessed loser.

Sex has shed its taboo among some people. I wouldn’t think that it’s the cultural norm yet. I think that things like sexualised advertising reinforce this argument - it’s attention-getting because there is still a taboo. And that’s not even going anywhere near the related subject of heteronormativity in the imagery…

Agreed. I also found, “reading it now, in an age where sex has shed its taboo, the book exists as a strange artifact of America’s sexual repression” odd. I think we now exist in an odd combo of sexual images and sexual repression that send mixed messages and mess with people a lot. America still seems really sexually…

Thank you for saying so.

I’m in a vaguely similar position.

That was one of a couple of slightly odd things in the review. Along with saying “This choice makes sense for the time the book was written” and then ridiculing it as archaic and prudish. I suspect that the book had at least some role to play in that progression in the popular conception of sex between when it was…

Says who? What evidence is there that this is true? The Joy of Sex was published well into the sexual revolution, so I’d guess there were public conversations about all varieties of sex then.

All that polyester. All those pantyhose and vinyl shoes. (I was a kid.)

It is never my intention to yuck anyone’s yum, but for me, sensuality has no place in the bedroom.

I first read this at a house where I was babysitting. The homework went undone that evening.
I think those illustrations are pretty great, dated hair and all. Why the hate? You’d have preferred photos? Stick figures?

This is awesome. Could maybe include Thuuuuuuuuh CruSHER!!!

Chilly Willy? Ah, Eeeh, Achoo!

No Mitch McConnell?

No love for Pete Puma?!

What about that really sexy rabbit who shows up every now and then to get Bugs out of a jam? What’s her deal? 

Where the fuck is the little penguin who cries ice cubes?  This is an outrage.