I do too.

I really hope you’re right.

100 years from now, school children will read about these people and think the same way about them that we did while reading about slavery. I hope every one of their names are prominently mentioned in textbooks about how their hatred of women was disguised as concern for life. Give them the credit they so richly…

If they’re not successfully carrying babies to term, they must be womaning incorrectly. Or something.

Because some people don’t understand how birth control works. For example some people think birth control pills cause miscarriages and therefore those miscarriages are actual abortions. I personally think that’s nutty, but I’m just relating what I’ve read on other comment boards.

And the men responsible for their part in conception?

The war on miscarriage completely boggles me. Like I get pro-life , don’t agree but understand the moral argument. But miscarriages are usually unintentional and so like leave these often grieving women alone. It’s on them to decide if they want to mourn and then how they choose to mourn.

Women aren’t people in America.

Not quite contemporary, but Flannery O’Connor’s letters are feisty as hell.

I shalt never drinketh againe.

The seven novels recommended to Catherine Moreland in Northanger Abbey were originally thought to be titles made up by Austen for the purpose, but have recently been identified, and you can read them all. As is general for early novels, they aren’t exactly scintillating, are way too long, and have weird tics of…

Considering that she dropped an anal sex joke in one of her books —

Remember, the vast majority of her correspondance was destroyed at her request after her death. I’m assuming there are more secrets that we’ll never know about, but Miss Austen surely wasn’t prim and sheltered.

I read a book of her letters years ago at college and she was marvellously bitchy about people’s appearances too.

Is there a contemporary writer who reminds you of Austen’s feisty style? I can’t think of one atm.

I read that passage and I just imagine Jane Austen walking through a modern bookstore making fart noises at many of the Very Serious Books by Very Serious Men, in a wide variety of genres.

And now we have the Very Serious Novelist a la Franzen. Curses.

“In Sgt. Mason’s experience, when someone asked if they were in trouble, almost always, they were.”

So now I suppose that all of the trolls who came out on previous articles declaring that no one has ever been prosecuted for a false rape when they’d actually been raped will be here to apologize?

Not possible. Every time a woman accuses a man of rape and the man is not tried or is acquitted is a proven case of false accusation. That’s why we know that most accusations of rape are false and the woman should not be believed. We need to protect these men from the avalanche of false accusations!