I agree with you except.. The lower torso area is so photoshopped to hell that it looks extra creepy. Well, to me anyway. I can't quite explain it. Like her crotch just stopped or got cut off or something. Like she is going to remove the bottoms and we are all going to discover she has a crotch like a Barbie.

Counterpoint.

I live to serve.

It helps that I grew up in the south where, as everyone knows, "bless your heart!" usually translates to "fuck you, bitch"

You know what I don't think I'll ever understand about men who hate women? Why the fuck do they want to be around them so much? When I hate something I don't get angry when that thing I hate tries to leave me.

Listen, I definitely agree with you on all points... But there is one that oughtta have a little more nuance. Sure, badly written fluff should not be part of this debate, BUT why are topics typically discussed in "chic lit" off the table for serious literature. Let's ask Margaret Atwood, Annie Proulx or Donna Tartt.

He is the whitest, male-est, privilege-est modern writer that I know of - and I've read Catcher in the Rye twice.

But she's not just calling for her work to be reviewed, she's calling for equal treatment. For example, a Carl Hiassen mystery (formulaic fluff by a man for men) will get covered by the Times, but formulaic fluff written by a woman for women will not. If the Times just never covered commercial (non literature) works…

No, if a book is enjoyable to read and is romance, fantasy, sci fi or horror, it's obviously not "serious". And the fact that you (and I) admit to liking it means that we aren't either.

I don't think that's true about Weiner, actually, at all. I would put her in an entirely different category of writing than, say, Sophie Kinsella, whose novels rely on tropes and stereotypes to push through retreads of old plots and stories. While I wouldn't say she's my favourite author, I do think she's a…

That's what I felt when I read the first Twilight book in college. I finished and was like "OMG VAMPIRE BOYFRIEND I WANT ONNNNEEEE"...but then a few days later the fog cleared and I realized how fucking ridiculous and terrible those books were. DRUG BOOKS.

Anastasia refers to her ass as her "behind," her vagina as her "sex." Her juvenile exclamations of "Jeez!" and "Oh, my!" and "Hmmm" are interspersed with the least specific descriptions of Christian Grey—the guy who threatens to beat her up for mouthing off or misbehaving—as the hottest man in the history of…

Yeah. There was something about it that made it IDEAL for sick reading. Maybe because I only had to use 1% of my brain.

This is amazing and was kind of exactly my experience reading the books. Yes, all three. I was bedridden with stomach flu and someone sent me the PDFs. I read the whole fucking thing and I was like WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME. These books are like some disgusting fried appetizer you get at Chilis or TGI Fridays that you…

Garlic, anchovy and red onion in the top 6?

It's a way of discrediting and dehumanizing a black woman, as I've seen it. They need women like Beyoncé to just be fake, an animal-as one Jez commenter once referred to her " a dancing bear"- because they cannot conceive of a person who is black, sexy, feminist, female, and in charge of her life. It goes against the…

I love when people cite the amount of stars a comment got as proof of their being right. No, it could just mean that x amount of people are also wrong. Bring real evidence to support your point, or else don't come at all.

sure, he's a douche sometimes, but personally I couldn't take a person's musical opinion seriously if they said Kanye didn't have talent. Dude's got skills for days.

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