You are an idiot flittering between a few dangerous ideas while doing the Reasonable-Both-Sides Guy moron act that resulted in an incredibly incoherent and uninformed multi-paragraph argument. 

Also, there are extreme differences regarding their experiences in highschool and university and Rooney writes extensively about how class and social capital in both cases. There’s a large passage about what getting scholarships mean to the different students applying for them.

Whoever is writing the goodreads summaries about this book isn’t a good critic.

I thought Normal People was a much more subtle version of what Rooney wanted to argue in Conversations with Friends. And it was much more powerful. Conversations was, at times, more a spectacle (I love them both, still).

That goodreads summary is lazy or it doesn’t get into the heart of the book’s argument. I’ve discovered that a lot of people who have read the book aren’t keen to the references made within it.

Normal People is absolutely about class issues throughout the whole story. The language/lens of the book is firmly situated in Marxism and current conversations in leftist communities. Rooney drops hints through the book about how the reader should frame what is influencing the relationships, what pressures and…

Also, infantilizing women is some real internalized misogynist nonsense. Pretty popular with this crowd who appear to be mostly privileged white women who don’t think about the experiences of other women that differ from their own.

People go their whole lives with no social safety net to help them navigate the pitfalls of existence.

Using the age difference to create a model for the problem rather than examining why people get into relationships and why they behavior in particular ways towards their partners would be better time spent. When I read these comments, they seem to ignore the fact that relationships don’t work very often and end after…

He wasn’t rich and powerful back then.

There’s also a problem in normalizing the idea that significant age differences between consenting adults is always going to be unhealthy and subject to abusive power dynamics. Relationships tend to be unhealthy and have bad power dynamics regardless of age.

Newsflash: most relationships are unhealthy.

I suppose it all really doesn’t matter now, does it?

Too bad I’m a mutant.

They have changed their perspective. This happened a few seasons ago.

They aren’t. People misconstrue an answer to a question they were once given in an interview.

No. You’re right. What I think that a lot of the commenters to the article aren’t seeing is that these guys have had a pretty strong change of heart. The past three seasons or so have shown a clear progression from their past of saying anything just to say it. You could even say Gerald this season acknowledges the…

I’m not confused about the measure in which positive outcomes for the US is determined (to quote myself: “Whether the US and its allies make good on that is a different story.”) I absolutely agree with you. The US doesn’t have a shining history—but my statement concerns how the world currently works. The UN isn’t the…

A lot of Arabs are asking why we didn’t do anything. Syrians have been asking since 2011.

The CIA can legally conduct military operations under the National Security Act of 1947. The matter isn’t an issue of legality; it’s transparency and accountability.