Yeah, the thing about rom-coms is that they're made-up fantasies. A lot of times the "romantic" things that guys do in those movies would be creepy as fuck if done in real life... just like this. Expecting rom-com trickery to be well-accepted by real life people is like expecting to be able to paint a tunnel…

Why do you think you know what happened to Bristol Palin better than she knows it herself? You don't think she knows what she's talking about... so you think she's too stupid to know she was raped. What a shitty thing to do.

You mean the rape that Bristol Palin has gone on record as saying wasn't a rape, because she wasn't raped? That rape?

I don't think the author was making fun of her for that. Given that Bristol's mother, a world-famous politician, went on record as saying that she's deeply proud of her daughter for starting that drunken brawl at the party the whole family crashed back in September, and that starting that drunken brawl proves that…

Of course. It's not the fault of the sexist assholes who focused on discord and labeled it catfights, it's the fault of the author for using the same word when she describes her annoyance.

Hang on. What's this about my dead boyfriend Peter Jennings? Don't force me to reexamine my feelings...

Bristol Palin has gone on record to state that she does not believe she was raped. Why do you think you know better than her what she has experienced?

Bristol Palin has gone on record as saying that she does not believe she was raped. Why are you under the impression that you know better than her what she experienced?

If Joe Jonas were presenting himself as the Great White Hope of this nation, you'd probably have a point. But unlike the Palins, he doesn't seem to have that kind of megalomania.

No, Bristol shouldn't feel bad that she wasn't shot by the Taliban... but she should probably stop acting like being criticized for the shitty things she says and does is akin to being shot by the Taliban.

Actually, she's 24.

Actually, yes, by seeking out a huge book contract and agreeing to publish a memoir about her ever-so-fascinating teenage years, Bristol Palin asked for this. She continually puts herself in the public eye as some sort of paragon of virtue... when what she's famous for is getting pregnant out of wedlock to the great…

Nope. Bristol Palin likes to present herself, with the aid of her mother, as one of history's most downtrodden figures. The Palins revere themselves as almost Christlike. Personally I don't give one fragrantly scented rat's ass if it seems mean.

It's the ratio of single males to single females. In New York, for example, men ages 20-34 outnumber women in the same age range — as of 2012 it was 742,000 men to 729,500 women. The situation in San Francisco is similar, although I can't find stats to support that.

You took all of that as a magical storybook/movie outcome? Did we read the same article? Because I saw that guy being told that he's got some hard work to do on himself, but that it's ridiculous to give up. I'm sorry that you didn't see that, and that you've given up. That's no way to live.

It's funny that you feel comfortable calling bullshit on both of them, given that he made baseless accusations AND can't even be bothered to cite any sources in his own work, and she's cited sources. Cites that you could easily research, rather than talk about how you don't believe that she's being honest about her…

It's actually really easy to pick up a copy of the book, flip to the back, and see all the cited sources that the reviewer ignored in his haste to claim that no sources were cited.

Yeah, I've got that one cued up on my Kindle but I'm not sure I'm ready to read it yet... I'm trying to get through a rough week analyzing ideological campaigns for my propaganda class (lots of ISIS and Sandy Hook truthers and Rush Limbaugh, ugh ugh ugh) and I don't know if her book would be a nice respite from that,…

Ack! I'm sorry you won't get to read the book immediately after your thesis defense, but CONGRATS on defending your thesis next week! Maybe treat yourself with the Cary Elwes memoir about The Princess Bride? Or Neil Patrick Harris's book? They both drop tomorrow the 14th...

You don't understand basic research methodology. Someone else can explain it to you, dear, I'm not your professor.