Please provide examples of her greatness.

Yes they can. But being gifted the position of vice chairman and previously as a “journalist” because of who one’s parents are is exactly what nepotism is. And she’s passing it on by hiring friends.

I was going to be that person if you hadn’t first. OMG WREAKING. NOT WRECKING.

News at 11: Sky is blue, nepotism makes life difficult for others.

The “removed” is different generations.

Put together your family tree on Ancestry.com and it’ll all become really clear after enough hours of plugging in people and chasing documents for ancestors.

personal fave.

That bar is so low as to almost be non-existent, it seems.

Please don’t do this. Please. You do NOT have to use every last molecule of mascara. Buy the small tubes or multi packs and discard them after two months. Staph infection, pink eye, etc. Just not worth it as a money saver and very bad advice.

The ‘turd one’ wasn’t supposed to be erotic, which is why taking a snippet like that, and trying to use it as evidence for much of anything is extremely idiotic.

Yeah, be sure to tell everyone that you’re not defending him or his writing before defending this portion of his writing because the critique is clearly stupid.

I'm really uncomfortable with "as a Jew who has been screwed over by Jews . . ." This has nothing to do with being a Jew. As a Jew have you ever been screwed over by a Christian or by an atheist? You don't, as a Jew, have to take responsibility for the actions of every other Jew or every Israeli in the world. As a…

I don’t know why Ananda believes it, but I’ll tell you why I believe it: because I have seen, in my experience, the dominant group committing racist acts against minorities, and minorities committing racist acts against the dominant groups, up to and including murder for the only reason of ethnic difference. Since I…

It’s interesting to see many people finding these quotes rather pointlessly disgusting and evident of the author’s lack of sexual experience. I found them to be aptly appropriate against the backdrop of teenage sexual illicitness and a pathetic middle-age affair. I think these quotes, in their respective context, are…

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I still don’t buy the fairly recent academic definition of racism only being possible by those in power, but no, I didn’t think her statements were racist, just wrong. Besides, it seems to me she was intending to be sensational in her comments, most likely to get people to think and ponder and challenge their…

I haven’t made my way through the entire comments section yet, but can someone explain to me specifically why this site directs so much disdain toward Franzen? It doesn’t seem to me that he’s gone way out of his way to be misogynistic—I think he’s written some pretty strong female characters. I think he’s been…

As I mentioned just above, it's part of a phone sex fantasy that gets really fucking weird. It's not something that actually happens in the book. I mean, rag on Freedom all you want, it's definitely overrated as hell, but read the fucking thing first.

The first four quotations are descriptions of emotional states using sexual imagery and/or metaphor. They’re not descriptions of literal sex acts. The last two descriptions are from increasingly fantastical sexual conversations between teenagers and again, are purposefully divorced from reality. Not my favorite book…

I’ve never found any sex writing to be “good”. Some have been more realistic, or honest, but I’ve never read anything that struck me as erotic.