I actually REALLY like that she didn't do the cliche "hero gets the girl" thing and pair up Harry and Hermione (who I agree didn't have that much in common).

Normally that would be a problem for me, too, but in this case I can understand it. They all went through the same weird shit together. Who else is going to be able to relate so completely?

Very much so.

Ah, okay. I was basing my guess on the actual age of Alice Liddell when Carroll started telling her/wrote the story for her.

That's what I use it for, as well.

Great news!

Some talk show (Maury, maybe?) used to do episodes sometimes where they had "out of control teens" and there would, inevitably, be a handful of them who wanted to have babies, and were actively trying to get pregnant. So they'd send some teen mom into the fray to try to talk some sense into them, and she'd…

I really wish I knew the context of that face.

Every woman Luvs a good diaper pun!

It's only 11:35 a.m. here, but I feel pretty confident in saying this comment will be the best thing I'll read all day.

True story :D

Actually, Alice was ten, not seven.

I was going to say...they're faith-based, so, probably not. But you got there first!

I get the impression the person who wrote that was going for some sort of quota with the word "aesthetic".

I wish there were some way to reply to everyone in a conversation with just one comment, because this is a really great thread.

I can't stop laughing at this. Now I'm imagining someone getting an MD in mansplaining, and trying to figure out what his doctorate thesis would be about. And where he'd spend his residency.

Ha—Whorenostrilville. I've spent the last ten or so years there, myself.

Oh, wow—I'd never heard that, about the rash. Best of luck to you.

Wow, how dare you not submit to the internet equivalent of the creepy subway flasher...*eyeroll*

Uuuuggghhh. Why do so many guys think they have the Magical Lesbian-Curing Penis? If THEY wouldn't consider having sex with a man, what makes them think other people's orientation is any more changeable?

Oh, wait, I know. It's because we're women, and our sexuality doesn't count and is not to be taken seriously…

I think they get it into their heads that Western women are easy, and then get bent out of shape when that turns out not to be true.