I tried to get my kids the fruit instead of the fries a few times. Holy hell, took all the "fast" out of fast food. No employee could ever figure it out. And if you ordered the fruit at a drive-thru, you still got fries instead.

I used to order the McDonalds Asian salad, I was pretty bummed when they took it off the menu. It was a convenient, fast, themed salad. But you can't leave greens around, they go bad quickly, so if I was the only one ordering it… take it off the menu.

My husband makes a fried chicken omelet that is about the tastiest thing ever. It would put this to shame. The key is to be in the South near a Food Lion with Food Lion fried chicken.

It's a chronological retelling of the books. They start with Roland's childhood flashbacks from book 4 and go through his life history. They're pretty good. I preferred the story in the novel chronology, but I enjoyed the art.

I thought John Adams was recently established as our drunkest president.

It's huge where I live. My office has a group of people who walk around at lunch and teenagers are swarming the town. The public parks are full again!

Not that you've seen any, but feel free to criticize your made-up criticisms.

Well, basically I think your point is that lots of magazines talk about women's looks. I'm not sure what else to take away from that, since what is popularly termed as women's magazines and what I see in the supermarket usually discuss "How to lose that body fat!"

Can you give us examples of women talking about male celebrities in the newsstand in such a similar fashion? I mean, you know it's women writing the articles, not just a headline in the checkout counter. I think it's worth the comparison, not trying to be snarky.

The point is that women's musings don't get published under the guise of journalism, though. Lucky13's friend isn't getting paid to write about how Justin makes her feel things.

You're missing the "someone who has more lived experience of the topic" part. Willfully. Maybe even gleefully.

I'll miss your voice of reason here, but I totally understand where you're coming from.

I don't know anyone who shuts people down for asking occasional clarifying questions, and it certainly isn't happening here in this article.

If every single thing they publish alienated their readers, yes. But obviously they can publish a few what-the-hell pieces. This is far from the first time I've seen publications called out on letting some entitled whiner publish awful, alienating articles. I'm sure you've seen it before too.

Was the writer talking about how she's used her looks in her career or about how her boobs make him feel personally?

But it's very much not a "how shitty all men are" article. How did you get that out of it? It discussed a specific type of journalism and the pushback it generated. Do we have to spell out that it didn't mean #notallmen every single time?

Battybrain, I know you're reasonable, so I hope you'll take this comment in the spirit of reasonableness. "They're just expected to sit still for lectures about how awful their gender (and by extension, them personally) can be." So what do women do in a situation like this? If we say we're offended by these Odes to…

I'd also like to thank you all. So many great points in here, it was a joy to read.

Yes, and when you talk to a professional chef who tells you how to cook something you've never eaten, constantly interrupt, because relaying personal experience is inappropriate monologing every single time!

I think that's part of the problem. Articles are being published with absolutely no consideration of the audience because someone had the connections to get a platform to publish whatever-the-hell.