@Ashaleeeee: No, B&N also sells used (if you're early enough). But they'll sell something they bought for $5 to you for $15, or something like it. The new price would be $25, so you'd still feel like you made a good deal, but for that deal students before you got fucked over.

@slightlyhardup: I'm not making this about me. YOU are... oddly trying to make this about something I don't even understand.

Stieg Larsson novels are not real life, even liberal European countries aren't perfect, some of us like our monarchies.

@Carlos the Dwarf: See my comment to slightlyhardup. But with less venom to you.

@slightlyhardup: That's why I wrote half.com and Amazon. I never said they'd have to get a college bookstore credit. I said B&N bled college bookstores dry and then bought them, thereby screwing over students.

@Ashaleeeee: That seems like a lot of work for a gift though. Also, you'll never get the price you paid B&N on a resell. Believe me, I've tried.

@Miss Suka: I mean, I get the special allocation for books, I guess. I won't go into the necessity of the fund, because that's besides the point. But yeah, Barnes and Noble? Of all the places where you can get textbooks? No. No student in their right mind and with more than 1 semester under their belt gets their books…

I'm never against good people meeting good times, but $5000 to Barnes and Noble? Really? Y'all are aware that they overprice their books by A LOT, right? That they are fucking a lot of students (particularly freshmen) over every single semester? That they'll give you a pittance if you want to sell your books back…

@Ipomoea: @clockwise - counter:

Applause!

@gherkinfiend: Yeah, we don't need dates because we just have random douchebags getting us drunk and sexually harassing us. It's great fun. Americans should use that as an example.

I'm 27 and just went on my first official date-date. I'd been to random movies with random boys, but they were never datey.

@Treeless: Honestly, I don't recognize the experiences of harassment on every street corner of Paris AT ALL. I'm not saying they're not true and valid. Just that I've never had all that much happen to me in Paris, and I've been... 5 times in my adult life?

@clockwise - counter: And what extends to it, exactly?

@SarahMC: Consent, Empowerment, and Resilience: A Play in One Act.

@bluebears: If I say it three times, like Beetlejuice, will it appear to me in the form of Pasteck? Or do I need to say it near a mirror, like Bloody Mary?

@bluebears: This just in: rape culture so widespread even editors of generally woman-friendly blogs don't see it when it's shaking its penis in front of their faces.

@AndPreciousLittleofThat: As a European, I can say that "honking one's boob" is not a common European quirk.

@haguenite: I was going to add this gif to that post but Jezebel wouldn't let me.

@HistoricUpstart: You don't get it! Consent is something open to various interpretations and Jezebel only ever covered the one side (no means no, blackout drunk means no, anything that impairs the ability to consent means no). It's about DIALOG, dahling.