Stop trying to police her, dork. 

When did Jezebel transition from being 2016 Resistance types to whatever it is now?

There’s class/race/social capital elements here that are’t being discussed. It’s like when MRA dudes try to dispute sexual assault statistics and say “look at all these dudes who were convicted!” and they parade men who are poor and mentally ill as evidence that the system works.

I think you’re stretching the meaning of experts.

Comedians even if they see themselves as outsiders are very much on the inside and their work is often a confirmation of prejudice. What they are saying and what people are responding to is “Hey! Check out this messed up stuff that we do! But it’s not like we are gonna stop because we’re not really morally conflicted…

It’s less complicated than you think and it’s not a both sides issue.

We have to stop using the word “terrorist” to describe everything.

Hamas has long abandoned its claim that it wants to wipe Israel off the map. They now describe that portion of their original charter as naive and kinda stupid. 

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.