I think perhaps Megan has family money. For an unsuccessful aspiring actress in Manhattan, she has certainly always looked and lived like she had more money that she could've been earning with acting jobs or at the agency.

They identify his wife's first and last name, and his first name. They don't specify that he shares her last name.

I think it's dying, but unfortunately I don't see men taking pride in contributing to the family in other ways escalating at the same rate. Not so much individual men exactly, but the idea of masculinity, where it intersects with family, as being about how you carry out your responsibilities, rather than the exact…

But we're really talking about the impact of a loss of privilege. Certainly men, white people, straight people, etc, can and do experience loss of privilege as hardship and oppression, but that doesn't mean that their loss of privilege is actually comparable to the actual historical hardship and oppression experienced…

It's pretty tragic there, Juan, that your idea of masculinity has nothing whatsoever to do with being a decent and responsible husband, father, and human being, and everything to do with feeling like you're superior to your wife.

I don't know that anyone ever did. I didn't get paddled by that particular coach. Here's another thing: there's something class-based about this. Because at least when I was there, the coaches would be assigned the...let's say, lower achieving classes. I use those words because I really don't know how they decided to…

You know, when I opened this I was thinking of my own school system.

Interestingly enough, Ann Romney's remarks began as Twilight fanfic.

I recommend Control, Sheltered, and All Other Things most highly, but really everything she's done is some kind of epic.

I think that happens when the man is trying to speak for women. And while I think that there are men who have a lot of insight into women, they labor under a ton of social cues that instruct them that they're not to even try to understand women, and in fact it's dangerous to even try, so don't go there, dude. Women…

Menage by Emma Holly makes me think Imma die, and it's easy to ignore the things in there that are off, like that bondage fivesome and how you can't understand why Joe and Sean both do a Catholic schoolgirl thing with her, and also Joe please go away so this can just be Kate and Sean because you are a total buzzkill,…

One I read recently that was excellent was Control by Charlotte Stein, who is great all around.

Somehow not interested in the erotica-related musings of someone named Frank.

Oh, no, the opposite. That is obviously far from a heaving bosoms/ripping bodices cover, which means you knew the awesomeness to which you were referring.

Oh, I like The Wire, he likes Downton Abbey. There are very few fandoms where we don't intersect. We only part ways where his compleatist tendencies result in things like him actually watching all 10 seasons of Smallville.

Have I been incorrect in my belief that, say, the Dane Jones stuff (or X-Art, or Vivienne Thomas) with their banners at the bottom of the clip area are the uploaders, or are involved somehow in the clip being there?

That Laura Kinsale book can make a strong argument for being the best historical romance ever written.

That series is golden, and I am from the south and instinctively shudder at the word Nascar.

I take great pleasure in telling all the straight guys I know exactly how much fmm+ I consume. But wait, women are turned off by guys being together! Just ask a bunch of straight guys!

I hope it was me! Megan Hart is amazing. Many of her books are interconnected and in subtle ways so once you've made your way through everything set in and around Pittsburgh, cruise back through a second time and you'll be astounded at what you'll find. Five times through and I'm still finding things. Elle, the…