I think Jezebel’s central audience would argue that Madison can have consensual sex with anyone she wants, any time she wants, and that includes waiting until marriage, if she so chooses.

“Respect her elders.” What have older people done to deserve a level of respect that goes beyond how we would respect any human being at any age? “Respect your elders” often means “you have to do what I say [because I ... *checks notes* ... have survived longer than you]” which is absolute bullshit.

If you have a daughter-in-law, I kinda wonder if maybe she writes about you on Mother-in-law from hell/Just No Mother-in-law reddits...

Being in a place so flat that you can watch your dog run away for three days can make people go a little nuts.

Good point. The people who see The Good Place as mainly a puzzle box show miss the intent. It’s a relationship show.  And the previous people in The Good Place had very few relationships.

“The girls”? Gabbard is awful, and I’m not a big Clinton fan either, but why are you demeaning them (and all women candidates...and all women who strive to be taken seriously in their professional roles...and all women) like this?

I’m not disagreeing with you, but this is an editorial staff that’s spent the entire day arguing about having sex with a large walking peanut.

Eh, it mattered enough for you to write back. Either way, if you actually read Milan tweets,

As soon as you have to say something along the lines of that it wasn’t racist in year xxxx, you need to stop, you lost the argument.

I read that Footsteps is his favorite verse, right after Two Corinthians.

That’s cute that you think young “Democrats” are responsible for this nonsense. Loving all the Kamala post mortems today when all you did was shit on her.

MAybe I’m tired of being outraged,but I don’t have a problem with this. Ronan did great work and him being awarded is fine. I agree the Jodi and meghan should also be awarded and I would think something geared toward women would award them. With Carlson i feel like she is attempting to change and she has been very…

Is this Dessen’s kinja account? Someone giving tepid praise to your book is “being an asshole”? And if Dessen can react this poorly to someone making an offhand comment about her book and you defend that, I’m not sure why you don’t also think everyone else has the right to think she’s unhinged in reaction to her.

From sarahdessen.com/bio

Yes, and someone brought up in the comments on the other post that Dessen’s books themselves are super white. I think there’s a lot to be said about that in particular, given that Dessen is decrying someone calling her books “fine for teen girls” when the audience for those books is very likely all white teen girls…

This whole thing was a classic example of peak white feminism (TM)

Plenty of times. Did I then turn to social media so that my thousands of fans could help me pile on a single person? No. No one handed Sarah Dessen a clipping from the local news in Aberdeen, South Dakota, saying “you’ve got to see this”. She sought that out, and then felt so hurt that the internet didn’t return…

She said she was “having a really hard time right now,” presumably due to factors outside of that quote, and was feeling particularly fragile. I’ve been there. The main difference is that I’m not a famous writer, and hopefully wouldn’t tweet this out to all my followers even if I was. 

I’ve had a bunch of those. That’s just emotions, not emotional immaturity. If I dealt with it by turning around and kicking my dog, that’s emotional immaturity.  Everyone feels things.  Not everyone hurts others because of their feelings.

As someone who is Dessen’s age, I feel fully confident in saying “Sarah, honey, you’ve got to grow up and get over yourself.” Nothing, especially not a minor slight from a college kid, ever pushed me into going on an all-day twitter rant.