I'm with you here. I don't need that while I'm eating. But I'm not really surprised at what people do anymore.

Speaking as a European who is perfectly comfortable with sexuality and porn, it would annoy the everloving shit out of me if a stranger dragged me into their sex fantasy without my consent. That woman and her companion are a self-centered assholes.

Agreed. I went to a freaking TGIFriday's this weekend at a kinda crummy mall near me and there was a dude outside it, having a smoke, with his shirt off and his shorts unbuttoned and half down his hips, showing off his tighty-whities, and I was actually kinda pissed at the guy. Like, really? I know it is hot out, but…

I'm kinda a fan of the whole let's-make-topless-women-as-shocking-as-topless-men thing (I'd never do it) but in the spirit of equality—I'd think it was TOTALLY inappropriate if a man took his shirt off in a restaurant.

No shoes, no shirt, no service, honey.

This. And the way the women look like they aren't having fun at all - it just reeks to me of exploitation. The fact that the (fully dressed) men are having all the fun just reinforces the concept that it's ok for men to have their fun at the expense of a woman, especially if she's a whore or whatever because she…

Who will Colin Firth and Hugh Grant play? I'm thinking the head dog trainer and the blind woman's sleaze-with-a-heart-of-gold boss, respectively.

Oh, I agree. It's just that I live very close and visit often (for the live music venues) Williamsburg, Brooklyn—the home base of hipsterdom and have seen in person this particular posture and am grieved and made illish by it.

Oi vey. I can't tell which party is being defamed. All the women look idiotic. Even in the old-fashioned versions, the ones where their boobs were bigger than their heads, and everyone wore their underwear on the outside of their clothes, the women were portrayed as strong and assertive. These heroines look like they…

This is precisely it. For Nutting, I don't think the project is why Celeste is the way she is, but rather describing, letting us in on, how Celeste is.

I think that this is largely a function of the questions being asked about her book, though. Like, coming from the perspective of somebody who's read the book, this interview made Tampa seem to be much more exclusively a Serious Investigation or Cultural Critique than it really is. I mean, that is there, definitely.…

I do feel like there is a wealth of literature out there dealing with the mindsets of predatory people. That's why I was wondering if it interested you regardless of the main character's gender.

It's especially frustrating because some of them actually are typically depicted as ethnically diverse. That, and because Marvel has a superhero character who actually already dresses like a hipster and she's not white.

I suspect the book will show that the seemingly average woman was drawn to becoming a trusted educator because she was already a predator. That's the way it is for a lot of the male child abusers.

Yes. Do they have to go to the bathroom all of a sudden? It's not terribly empowering, whatever she's trying to convey.

"If this type of writing is done with a male pedophile, it's considered pornography"—Or it's Nabokov's Lolita. I think so much depends on how the writing is done, and that's hard to say without reading either book. Granted, Lolita is not my favorite, but its content is essentially a mirror image of Tampa.

Aw, man — the Welsh always get the shaft.

When I saw the title I immediately thought of the designing women episode with the baby wig.

Hi Beyonce, how are you? I just want to know is there any reason or dissatisfaction of Kanye and I's birth that both you and Jay-Z gave 3800$ each? In terms of the amount we got from you both was very unexpected as a result we were very much short on paying off the OBGYN because just for the delivery + hospital stay…

I'd be more willing to give Simmons credit if the theme of his show had been different. To me, given his history, this is saying that models of color belong where white people deem them appropriate, aka in the context of what whites deem non-white, non-western culture to be. That's almost worse to me than not having…