Totally. O'Keeffe wrote the book (painted the canvas?) on visual metaphors for veejays.

Totally agree with what you said about Charlotte. It's not that her marriage is bad, per se. She went into the arrangement with eyes wide open. Austen is not depicting a woman who messed up the most important decision of her life. She's depicting a woman who carefully weighed the limited options available to her and…

What. The. Hell.

Now that's brilliant.

It's a joke. The poem is intended as a joke.

That is really charming.

*Ding ding ding ding ding.*

My goodness you are in such a rush to feel righteous, you barely even read my post. You just kind of projected on to it what you expected (wanted?) to hear.

Is this even newsworthy?

Blah! 36 is so oooooold! She should just die already.

Thanks for the recommendation to mull, but I've also been a white teacher in a school of 100% non-white students. I find your last sentence presumptuous and condescending. Let's not go around assuming that people haven't ever thought about things, just because they don't necessarily agree with you.

On the one hand, yes what the teacher did was totally inappropriate. At the very least, if she really felt like this child's hairstyle needed to be shared, she should have made sure the kids' face wasn't showing in the picture. And of course she should have changed her privacy settings, because any time you post a…

Uh, just to be fair to Dodai/Jezebel. She didn't say anything about being offended by these ads, or believing that they advocate or promote rape. She said "There's a slightly rape-y undertone" in the ads, and there is. The ads are kind of funny and their point is clear. But there's still kind of a rape-y undertone.…

Yawn.

Wow. There is plenty to criticize Abercrombie for, past and present. But this is not it.

I know you're totally right, but Bender still turns me on.

I'll give you that in Can't Hardly Wait it's a subplot, but it's there. And in Say Anything, Ione Skye may be beautiful but it's made clear that she's smart, nerdy and not popular. She's not just a hot girl in a pair of glasses; she's a distinctly socially awkward character. Boof may not be a complete dork, but she's…

And don't forget Fast Times at Ridgemont High.

Some Kind of Wonderful is the obvious counter-example to this hypothesis.

To the commenters who are saying "300 had scantily clad men," and "there's nothing wrong with women in skimpy outfits:"