Related to The Crown, and I’ll probably get flak for it, but I think the total cast change for most of the characters was a really bad idea. In particular *big gulp* I think Helena Bonham-Carter is really badly miscast here.

“And if you think a woman can’t beat Donald Trump, Nancy Pelosi does it every single day.”

indeed, especially if the rumors are true

I love the big O, but he has disappointed me since he was elected. I kept wanting him to be BOLD and to actually say shit out loud that everyone was thinking, and he didn’t. He’s always been a very cool pragmatist centrist from Chicago - I knew that - so I probably shouldn’t have been so disappointed by him in office,…

I felt and did the exact same thing.

Buy used books. Publishers keep track of book store sales and library loans, but no one knows if you buy a bunch of books on ebay. And it's better for the environment 

Plus her books suck. I look forward to the trouncing on Twitter I’ll get from this opinion. 

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…

Jennifer Weiner has always made me uncomfortable, like she was an immature, self absorbed mean girl hiding in plain sight. I never understood the appeal or the acclaim. So her behavior in this incident did not surprise me, sadly. At least her apology was not the worst of the bunch.

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

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

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

“I want to apologize to the person”

I want to apologize to the person who was quoted

Like I mean growing up I generally wasn’t interested in a lot of like ‘Books for girls’ content because for me they were stories I had no interest in/would’t have connected to well.

“in order to defend the idea that teenage girls don’t have to respect the canon, i must brutalise any teenage girl who respects the canon” is an infuriatingly familiar formulation. The problem is adults shitting on teenage girls, not what any given set of teenage girls are doing - but it has happened in feminism…

Please keep posting this comment. I found it informative the first time (not understanding money stuff well), and it just keeps being relevant. I mean, rich white guys are gonna rich white guy no matter what the effects of Warren’s tax, but breaking down just HOW ridiculous their tears are is important.

Once again, it needs to be pointed out that in the real world, there is one and only one superpower: compound interest.

Gotta say — the nastier billionaires get about Warren, the more excited I am to vote for her. She seems to be the only candidate who the extremely rich think will significantly impact their lifestyle, and that to me is a big point in her favor.