Everyone already knows Nelson, thanks to Dessen. This is the worst and weirdest justification that I keep seeing for her evasive, shitty non-apology.

I felt and did the exact same thing.

Both Dessen and now Weiner put their “apologies” (Weiner’s is a Master’s course unto itself of backdoor self-compliment virtue signalling!) in screencap photo form, even though neither of them are so long that they couldn’t be in tweets.

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…

This is some beautiful shade from Nelson:

That these people took this remark as a disamplification of women’s genre fiction or whatever is hugely indicative of their egos. There’s plenty of value in YA fiction. There is no reason adults can’t or shouldn’t read it. However I don’t think there’s much place for it as a book to spark discussion and critical…

Agreed, I was shocked by how gleefully people piled on. All in the name of FEMINISM and lifting up the FEMALE author. Who was a jerk to a student who didn’t like her books (or, actually, preferred others over hers, which she has every right to do). I didn’t weigh in, just left the thread but I regret that I didn’t…

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…

I don’t want to be angry, I want shitty people to be held accountable for their words and actions. It does nothing to alleviate the abuse that Brooke Nelson has suffered the last few days, and she didn’t even ask her fans to stop harassing her. It was a half-assed apology, she never admits what she did was wrong, just…

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

I rarely read YA and made a note of all these names to make sure I never touch any of theirs. Excellent repping of their genre. A+.

Hey, Brooke Nelson, I’ve got an idea for your dissertation and it’s a doozy!

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?

She couldn’t even name the person she bullied. I’d give it a C-.

In my experience, mean girls are mean girls for life.

I want to apologize to the person who was quoted

Yes, her books are extremely white (nothing wrong with that, sometimes authors just write from their own experience/upbringing. Think J.K. Rowling). They all take place in the same universe if I remember correctly. All the characters live in neighboring towns from one another. I read a few of them when I was in middle…

Because it’s a terrible movie.

A few examples of what I mean:

I am not a Jon Favreau fan by any stretch (I didn’t care for the Iron Man movies, and I have a visceral hatred of Chef) but this sounds pretty good.