Capitalism, i.e. money is what pushes people out of their homes. Not some monolithic hoard of "white people". As long as the landowners can squeeze more money out of tenants they are going to regardless of race.

Claire (sultry eyes): I'm not a virgin.

I have no Amish romance but I don't have Puritan Valentine's Day cards:

I also hated it where you are. I was so angry - like seething. I was on io9 freaking out and screaming and ranting about the book. About 300 pages after the "strapping" and after 50+ replies on io9 and reddit (of all places) discussing how the author failed to show what she was trying to get across, I forgave Jamie.…

I think Bree is 6' (hugely tall for a woman of that era) because Roger is 6'3" IIRC

I know Claire touches on that in some of the later books, when she's quite a bit older and the women she comes in contact look HELLA OLD and she's all "uh, she's like 20 years younger than I am." So maybe that will come through.

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Ok folks who read the book: what's everyone's guess for when we see Jamie's a) ass and b) frontal bits of manhood.

We've seen Claire's ass twice now. I need Jamie's Scottish greatness on display.

Geillis Duncan......etc, etc.

I'm of the mindset that PMS removes the bullshit-tolerance all women have, and puts us on dude-level for a few days. Guys rarely put up with shit, and they don't have to justify it with a hormonal imbalance. I like my PMS for that reason - I don't have to pretend to give a shit when I'm just not feeling it. It's…

So I was at the beach last week and found it super interesting that people have no problem flashing murder mystery covers but you could always tell who was reading a romance novel by how diligently they kept the cover hidden. Chick-lit covers less so but I could totally guess who was reading romance novels by how…

She is not tall and she is not that thin. Not that it matters. She is a Jewish girl from a working class Midwestern family who has brought feminism to the teen girl masses. She created a magazine for teen girls that is completely excepting and inclusive of all people regardless of sexuality, gender identity, weight,…

I was right slap bang in the middle of the 90's when he had that mad string of films like Mrs. Doubtfire and Aladdin.

The gall of this transported peasant. My monocle is positively shattered with outrage.

Do we share a news feed?

I love that you called them Redcoats. Someone's been watching Outlander, per chance?

It can certainly happen that a Google employee abuses the power to look into e-mails. As far as I know, this is why few, if any people have that power.

The thing that's easy to forget with cases like this is just how weird our world has become. Google looking into e-mails does not equate to somebody looking into…

Oh come on, I've read all the responses and everyone is being helpful and reasonable— sorry if they didn't tell you exactly what you wanted to hear. Yes, women have been giving birth completely unsupervised for millenia— and a shitton of them have died (furthermore, they would almost certainly have been overjoyed to…