What if he has a copy of 100 years of Solitude hidden inside that magazine but he can never read the book in public because all the ladies keep going crazy and snapping pics of him to post on instagram, and this is his way of finally getting some peace and quiet while he reads a classic novel?

Think about it.

Try telling that to the people who defend Page 3 girls in The Sun - you'd think we were ganging up to castrate them.

Dude, he's an old white guy reading a porn mag in public... Is that really the cross you want to die on?

It's CRAZY how people are so proud of being uninformed and then if they get a whiff that you notice, they act like they have somehow broken the code to enlightenment and are just above-it-all, y'know, not being slaves to media and so on (though they can't usually explain it that well).

he's just using it to shield the Dworkin book he is actually reading

All my books are in storage right now from when we moved/no bookshelves to put them on :( But I second this idea! "Books of Jezebel: A Retrospect"

I swear, Something Awful is the best.

Yeah- I'm super serial tired of the snarky bitchy for the sake of bitchy around here. I literally just finished 100 Years of Solitude like, three weeks ago and I'm a smart, well read thirty something. Books find us at different times in our lives, and whatever. No need to be a giant snob about books.

Yeah, since when is there an expiration date on reading classics? Everyone has huge gaps in their knowledge. I didn't read To Kill a Mockingbird or The Metamorphosis until well after high school. I majored in English and I still haven't read Moby Dick, Madame Bovary, Richard III, and like a million more things that…

That pizza makes me want to gouge out the eye parts of my face.

What next? They'll want the vote? Jobs?

Yeah I have to say I didn't find this any less creepy. It still gives me an icky feeling. I remember sitting on the train one day and seeing a dude take a photo of me and feeling repulsed so that's probably the source of it. I still wish I had confronted what I had noticed.

ok, I'm with you, with the caveat that sometimes you gotta show your sig other or trustworthy bestie something about some rando, cause reasons like they look just like your mother or have something pertaining to an in joke going on...but not to post on the interwebs

Yep. I mean, I get Kara's point, but lately I've been on way too many first dates with guys who act like books contain dick poison.

Hey wait a minute, my mom has tile like that in her bathroom... And that's not my dad!

So I read pretty much everything on my Kindle now, DEAL WITH IT, and I like the fact that people can't immediately see the titles of what I'm reading. I read some pretty strange books on whims. Of course, there's always the person who sits next to me/sidles up to me and asks "So...whatcha readin???" Last time this…

I work with some of them… and sometimes have to rewrite their attempts at writing to make them sound not just literate but actually *sparklingly witty*. It burns.

What about all us ugly dudes that read books all the time but nobody ever notices or cares?!?

Pssht, he's only reading that because he's on the cover. (I prayed it was because he also wrote it, but alas, the gods are against us.)

I have a photo like that bathtub one but I'm holding a 40 of malt liquor and giving a thumbs up.