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You can write anything you want on the world wide web, and anyone with a computer and a telephone line will be able to read it!

Yeah, I’m not really seeing a side to root for in this grossness.

I love how that article is all like “He wrote it to perform with his wife!” like this translates to “could not be rapey!”

Because in the middle class, terrified of what lies below and envious of what dangles above, small gradations of social status have a lot of weight, so competition is non-stop.

That’s an obvious case of sexual assault. But I don’t know that a teacher-student dynamic has much to do with it — although we can all agree that teachers are, as a group, a bunch of clumsily violent drunks, few have the power to ruin their students’ careers.

Just to clarify, your statement “Yes, because she slept with a student” reads as an answer to the question “Is this professor a rapist?”

So much this. Somehow in my mind, Pinkerton never stopped being their recent disappointing follow-up.

Did the Orthodox Jewish boy have to repeat a whole bunch of grades since Joanna lost her virginity to him, and is that why he’s still just an orthodox Jewish high schooler, or did Joanna give up her pearl of great price to him sometime in the last four years? Either way, I think the lad would be wise to prioritize

The choice to include a stock image of a fretful affluent-looking couple for this article was a little odd.

Maybe it’s because when I’m talking about romance I’m talking to another guy where the cultural dynamic isn’t asymmetrical.

But she kind of did ask him to marry her though.

I guess it’s no surprise that racism isn’t rational, but ... what? I mean .. what?

I unironically love this, and haters can take a seat.

Oh. I had imagined that you were speaking carelessly, but no.

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Unfortunately that’s not the sense of Greer’s quote in context:

She was among the boldest voicest of her generation, but she has gone completely round the bend.

Sure. Searching yourself is scrappy. It’s a dress, it’s a teddy bear, whatever — it’s important to you, don’t give up til you find it.

Yes.